Tears are flowing
you just made a current run down and up my spine

your poem is
AWESOME


Love floewes to you , Wendy
and to all who read this message

I accept that God's intent is
 to be Creative, and at times
His gayness
produces someone like me.

I am happy to know that God
made me as I am
for a Reason.

Tonight  the basses
5 of us,  including myself
in the Maine Gay Men's Chorus
rehearsed around my 100-year old
piano.

Your poem should be set to music
The music of the Heavens

Thank you

Ivan


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On Sun, 18 Oct 1998 16:29:06 -0600 "Tebay, Wendy M"
<[log in to unmask]> writes:
>Altho' I am not gay, when I first heard of this incident, I was
>furious, in
>a manner similar to the morning when I first read about the child
>bombing
>victims in Northern Ireland.  I sat down that night to write a poem
>about
>it, only to have to change it a few days later when he died.  The
>rewrite
>ended up being completely different.  I'm including it here for those
>list
>members who are gay, to know that they have my full support.  I have
>also
>fowarded this poem to people like Pat Robertson, and I even called his
>prayer line that night to both pray for Matthew's recovery, and plus
>to make
>a point, by kinda using the religious right's own prayer line against
>themselves, so to speak.
>
>I believe murder and hate to be far more evil that a person's sexual
>orientation, and if people have a beef with them, then they should
>take it
>to the "Big Cheese", cuz he made us all the way we are, for better or
>worse.
>As such, this poem could also apply to all of us:
>
>******************
>AS CREATED
>
>
>Man is
>As he was created
>By a God
>Who creates
>Both saints
>And sinners
>Alike
>
>As such
>Man and woman
>Black and white
>Rich and poor
>Christian and Jew
>Tall and short
>Gay and straight
>Yin and Yang
>Are all beloved
>By God
>
>To curse that
>Which God
>Has made
>Is to question
>His authority
>And his wisdom
>
>The only sin
>Is being untrue
>To oneself
>And thus to God
>One must be true
>To the desires
>Of the heart
>Which God himself
>Has there placed
>
>God is infinite
>And thus above duality
>How say ye then
>That straight is good
>And gay is evil?
>Are ye not then
>Calling God evil?
>For as he hath
>Created both
>Both are also
>Created
>In his image
>
>Would it not rather
>Be evil
>To be straight
>When God has instead
>Created ye gay?
>For then are ye not
>Denying
>God himself
>Your creator?
>
>Ye which condemn
>That which God
>Has created
>Are evil
>For ye are not like
>The God which
>Ye proclaim
>
>For God is
>Love eternal
>And cares not
>What sex ye are
>Or are not
>
>And cares not
>How ye love
>But simply
>That ye love
>One another
>As he also
>Loves you
>And has commanded
>Ye to do
>
>*copyright Wendy Tebay
>