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Bound
They bite their tongues and swallow them; they are washed in the blood of the christ…
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Happy Holidays (Operative Word: Happy.)
When someone chooses to use their words to share a message of joy with you and you take offense to the words rather than appreciating the message, when you slap away a hand held out in friendship because of a minor linguistic difference, you are the offensive thing.
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A Love Letter to Pat Robertson
The lights are on in your great glass house but there’s nothing there to see. Your eyes are glued to the man next door, face pressed against his window in a gruesome caricature, bulging against the panes, lashes wet with lust and your palms nailed tight to the cross you wear like a brace to…
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On Being Open-Minded, and the Freedom of Belief
Your right to believe in something does not negate others’ right to exist with the same rights and standard of living that you have.
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The Sesame Street Theory of Gay Marriage Resistance, or, How the Ernie Shirt Fucks You Up
When I was very small, I loved Sesame Street. I especially loved Ernie, and I had a special Ernie shirt that I had to wear every time it came on. I would run to my room, grab the shirt, put it on and run back and park myself in front of the TV, anxiously awaiting…
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Snakes
There is a house full of snakes waiting to devour us fangs slick with the ejaculate of televangelists and politicians, bellies fat with power and the scrawny limbs of dying children, sacrificed for the greater good, gently laid to rest before an altar draped in patriotic cloth and the stench of soggy dollar bills wet…
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Half-assed Elegy
Shy at first, (the way you are when you begin to realize that your invisible friends and Santa Claus aren’t real but you make your lists and set out extra teacups anyway) I was hesitant to speak mumbled out into the dark and empty room the echo I imagined shut me up and turned to…
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Some Country Church, and Poor Choice in Accessories
…Jesus on the precipice taking flight, mortality a bitter shock as his brains came out…
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Hallelujah in the Alley, Death Style
In a dark alley, Jesus Christ stripped off his vestments, stood naked and hairless and drew on his gloves
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This Thing and This Other Thing: On Reason and Religion
Religion and reason can coexist, but religion is not a substitute for reason.
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