Marriage…I’ve addressed this topic before on this blog. Then it was in response to a question of why do ‘you gays want to get married in the first place’. Living in New York City during the pre and post Marriage Equality Bill I must say, things have certainly changed. Not two weeks before the State [...]
Posts Tagged ‘church’
Letter to Darius~”One Who Maintains Possessions”: The One Who Comes After
I see you in the church pew amongst the sea of black, brown and beige bodies at the age of 6 or 7 dangling your feet to the sway of the music. I notice how your eyes linger on your blink as the singer holds a soaring note invoking the Spirit of God to come here now. How your head rolls to the right and your eyes slowly open, as if in a everlasting trance of a single moment, when the singer gasps for the breath to sing on. I see how you jump to your feet to clap a syncopated rhythm in response to the choir’s exuberant gospel refrain. And just last week I felt your heart yearn as your soul responded to the spiritual you are way too young to knowingly sing truthfully, “Nobody Knows the Trouble I Seen.” And yet the furrow of your brow told me that you will know of what you sing.
Immoral Acquiescence
As the military speaks of how to dismantle the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” Policy in regards to gays in the military, I am hit by the profundity of the policy itself. Basically, people willing to lay their lives on the line have been asked to lie about their true understanding of self. So now there [...]
