Not so
long ago, someone expressed genuine concern that I will go to hell for
being gay and rejecting a ‘decent’ way of life.
The way I
see it, we make our own hell here on earth if we so choose. As for any heaven…who knows?
As for LGBT men and women rejecting a decent way of life? Who says so? For a start,
people who know no better.
If bigotry - in all its ugly shapes and forms - is not weighing heavily not on the world's conscience, it damn well should be.
If bigotry - in all its ugly shapes and forms - is not weighing heavily not on the world's conscience, it damn well should be.
LGBT, A GLOBAL CONSCIOUSNESS
Some say there is no room for LGBT
men and
women in a place some have chosen
to call
Heaven since no God would condone
the carnality
enjoyed by the world’s gay men
and women.
(Holy Books, manuals of spirituality,
inspiring
judgement on homosexuality…?)
So who
are they who rage against LGBT
neighbours brazenly ‘betraying’ a natural gender
to which we
are born, love to pit humankind
against
its own on the grounds of this culture,
that
religion, claiming to fly with doves yet siding
with
hawks? Blameless, just human…?
Voices, raging on against an LGBT ethos,
suggesting we can but rely on political correctness
to win
the day (no hiding place for hypocrites);
raised
voices proclaiming gay men and women
cannot be
forgiven their awful ‘sinning’ in the face
of this convention, that culture or religion
Let them
speak who claim to know how God
will have His way with men and women who are gay;
no matter
who, all humankind deserves a voice
since each
of us, gay folks too, blessed with choice
as to
what we do, where we go, and how we interpret
Holy
Books on peace and love
Too many
voices competing with each other
to be
heard, obeyed, believed honest, fair and good,
coining
the rhetoric of this culture, that religion,
paying a
piper to play the tune we all love to hear
who choose
to be led by the nose through passages
of time,
its corridors of power
Yet, body-mind-spirit offers its human host
no finer wisdom than access to the greater freedom
no finer wisdom than access to the greater freedom
to be as
it would be (not as others might see)
lending conscience
and heart a rare peace and love
for an affinity with nature, discovering in its seasons,
a bitter-sweet raison d’être
Copyright
R. N. Taber 2015; 2018
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