1. Although this man was raised by two women, he was still raised as a church-goer.

  2. "If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them."
    Leviticus 20:13

  3. »  Homosexuality may be acceptable in Greenland but is still considered immoral.

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  5. "Well, while you were in the bathroom, I sat down at this picnic table here in Bumblefug, Kentucky, and noticed that someone had carved that GOD HATES FAG, which, aside from being a grammatical nightmare, is absolutely ridiculous. So I’m changing it to ‘God Hates Baguettes.’ It’s tough to disagree with that. Everybody hates baguettes."
    John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

  6. Grey’s Anatomy: Homosexuality and Religion

  7. »  Most Mainline Protestants Say Society Should Accept Homosexuality

  8. "God is love, she said. And he respects love, whether it’s between a parents, and child, a man and woman, or friends. I don’t think he cares about religion one little bit. Live your life right. Love with all your heart. Don’t hurt others, and help those in need. That is all you need to know. And don’t worry about heaven. If it exists, you’ll be welcome."
    Burned by: Ellen Hopkins
  10. "

    1.

    Peony silks,
    in wax-light:
    that petal-sheen,


    gold or apricot or rose
    candled into-
    what to call it,


    lumina, aurora, aureole?
    About gowns,
    the Old Masters,


    were they ever wrong?
    This penitent Magdalen’s
    wrapped in a yellow


    so voluptuous
    she seems to wear
    all she’s renounced;


    this boy angel
    isn’t touching the ground,
    but his billow


    of yardage refers
    not to heaven
    but to pleasure’s


    textures, the tactile
    sheers and voiles
    and tulles


    which weren’t made
    to adorn the soul.
    Eternity’s plainly nude;


    the naked here and now
    longs for a little
    dressing up. And though


    they seem to prefer
    the invisible, every saint
    in the gallery


    flaunts an improbable
    tumble of drapery,
    a nearly audible liquidity


    (bright brass embroidery,
    satin’s violin-sheen)
    raveled around the body’s


    plain prose; exquisite
    (dis?)guises; poetry,
    music, clothes.


    2.

    Nothing needs to be this lavish.
    Even the words I’d choose
    for these leaves;


    intricate, stippled, foxed,
    tortoise, mottled, splotched
    -jeweled adjectives


    for a forest by Fabergé,
    all cloisonné and enamel,
    a yellow grove golden


    in its gleaming couture,
    brass buttons
    tumbling to the floor.


    Who’s it for?
    Who’s the audience
    for this bravura?


    Maybe the world’s
    just trompe l’oeil,
    appearances laid out


    to dazzle the eye;
    who could see through this
    to any world beyond forms?


    Maybe the costume’s
    the whole show,
    all of revelation


    we’ll be offered.
    So? Show me what’s not
    a world of appearances.


    Autumn’s a grand old drag
    in torched and tumbled chiffon
    striking her weary pose.


    Talk about your mellow
    fruitfulness! Smoky alto,
    thou hast thy music,


    too; unforgettable,
    those October damasks,
    the dazzling kimono


    worn, dishabille,
    uncountable curtain calls
    in these footlights’


    dusky, flattering rose.
    The world’s made fabulous
    by fabulous clothes.

    "

    Couture - Mark Doty

    This poem by Mark Doty queers saints showing that homosexuality - in the time era where it was most linked to AIDS and seen as sacrilegious - was still expressed. It appears to me as though Doty was showing that homosexuals were forced to live in the physical world because the spiritual world did not accept them. Notice the robes that each saint is wearing and the last 2 lines of the poem.

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