inspired

i am a Christian. i believe that homosexuality is wrong. but i often find myself drawn to homosexuals, because they are so often persecuted when i myself deserve as much persecution as they do - a form of bigotry is the distorted misconception that homosexuality is the gravest of sins. literature, especially, flourishes in times of trouble. as readers, we are not drawn to the utopian society -- in fact, we detest possible utopian societys; take for example, Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 or George Orwell's 1984 -- but drawn to the flawed society, to the society that challenges us to grow, to understand, and to smile. listening to prop8 by andrea gibson, currently one of my favorite poems (sorry, milos <3)>Enter text here.for fifty years you were my favorite poem
and i would read you every night knowing that i might never understand every word
but that was okay
cause the lines of you were the closest thing to holy id ever heard --you'd say this kind of love
has to be a verb

finding beauty, writing it down, and speaking it are three parts of a journey. not necessarily finding the truth. but finding the humanity in all of us, the same common blood that runs through all humanity, in all of us. the last excerpt, read aloud, does not betray a homosexual speaker or a poem advocating homosexual marriage. simply beautiful.