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Regular readers will know that I do not subscribe to any religion. Even so, I hate to see gay men and women, boys and girls made to feel their sexuality and religion are mutually exclusive.
Socio-cultural-religious dogma has much to answer for and still has a long way to go before it can even begin to redress the wrongs and pain it has inflicted - and continues to inflict - on LGBT people worldwide.
Religions would have us believe in a God of peace and love. So why should sexuality matter to any God? And if it doesn’t matter to God, why should it matter to anyone professing to be a God-fearing person? Oh, and if sexuality does matter to a God who created all living things, how come the natural world is inclusively gay…?
I am reminded of a favourite quote: "It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength." - Maya Angelou
Incidentally, several readers have asked me to repeat the link to my favourite You Tube film about homosexuality in the natural world:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYdcvRe7ox8
This poem is a villanelle.
BEAUTY AND STRENGTH, DEFINING (GAY) PRIDE or DIVERSITY, NATURE DOCUMENTARY
Subject of a cloud movie one day;
the inner eye researching
all human history, inclusively gay
Apes in captivity, humans at play,
world shaping up, reshaping…
Subject of a cloud movie one day
True audience participation by way
of focusing on an all-embracing
all human history, inclusively gay
Signs of a storm well on the way,
as if the heavens protesting…
Subject of a cloud movie one day
A lark rising, its bitter-sweet lay
an ages-old theme, reworking
all human history, inclusively gay
Imprints on the heart sure to stay,
though a hard rain falling;
subject of a cloud movie one day,
all human history, inclusively gay
Copyright R. N. Taber 2008; 2018
Regular readers will know that I do not subscribe to any religion. Even so, I hate to see gay men and women, boys and girls made to feel their sexuality and religion are mutually exclusive.
Socio-cultural-religious dogma has much to answer for and still has a long way to go before it can even begin to redress the wrongs and pain it has inflicted - and continues to inflict - on LGBT people worldwide.
Religions would have us believe in a God of peace and love. So why should sexuality matter to any God? And if it doesn’t matter to God, why should it matter to anyone professing to be a God-fearing person? Oh, and if sexuality does matter to a God who created all living things, how come the natural world is inclusively gay…?
I am reminded of a favourite quote: "It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength." - Maya Angelou
Incidentally, several readers have asked me to repeat the link to my favourite You Tube film about homosexuality in the natural world:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYdcvRe7ox8
This poem is a villanelle.
BEAUTY AND STRENGTH, DEFINING (GAY) PRIDE or DIVERSITY, NATURE DOCUMENTARY
Subject of a cloud movie one day;
the inner eye researching
all human history, inclusively gay
Apes in captivity, humans at play,
world shaping up, reshaping…
Subject of a cloud movie one day
True audience participation by way
of focusing on an all-embracing
all human history, inclusively gay
Signs of a storm well on the way,
as if the heavens protesting…
Subject of a cloud movie one day
A lark rising, its bitter-sweet lay
an ages-old theme, reworking
all human history, inclusively gay
Imprints on the heart sure to stay,
though a hard rain falling;
subject of a cloud movie one day,
all human history, inclusively gay
Copyright R. N. Taber 2008; 2018
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