I am someone you may never meet. I’m not on your list of friends. I don’t go to your church. I have never sat next to you at a PTA meeting nor have I sung next to you in your choir. I don’t identify politically as you do. I don’t shop at the same grocery store. I don’t see you at a ballgame or jog past you in a park.
- Someone You May Never Meet
To you, I don’t count. You turn your head when you see me. You avert your eyes. I avert mine too. I don’t want to be hurt by you.
To you, I am dangerous. I hear your silence and your murmured words. I do not bow to brow beating. I listen because I want you to accept me.
To you, I am repulsive. I represent the decay of society. I remind you of what you do not understand. I want to help you understand but I frighten you.
To you, I am lost. I should turn away from sin. I have no bitterness toward you.
- Cropped and Blurred to Protect the Innocent
To you, I am a homosexual. In one fell swoop I have been labeled and dismissed. I too am a person beloved by God.
To you, I have an agenda. You judge me from the moment you learn a single illuminating fact about me.
I have no agenda except to love and be loved.
Go ahead. Cast the first stone.
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