“I had to protect my family.
And, everybody in that room was my family.”
So, Richard Fiero explained,
“These were all good people.”
The soul and heart are strained.
The heart and body are pained
beyond false boundaries of age,
race, gender, and faith.
Who stands partner with such grace,
spread by this hero who stood up to hate?
From whose pulpit will he be praised?
The same one which makes baseless claims
that simply being what God made,
true to self and biology,
somehow makes a sinner who must be saved?
Whose audacious foolery is this?
What jaundiced view leads
gentle souls astray from God’s bliss
in the diversity of His creativity ?
Such dark roads followed by the judgement prone
lead always to the home which the violent call home.
Close down the dangerous paths from such pews.
Put up warning “unsafe” road signs. Shout the good news.
Accept all of God’s creation, or stand alone.
And, for God’s sake, embrace a truth known well;
following paths of fear lead straight to hell.
annarino writes 