Dear Lord,
As I sit and ponder over the press and media coverage over same sex marriage, I listen to what those who claim to be your children are saying about me and I need to know, why do they hate me?
As a child, they told me that I had been made in your image and that you loved me unconditionally, they would say that you had agape love for me, and I believed them.
They told me that as long as I confessed from my mouth and believed in my heart that you would always be there for me, that you would never leave me nor forsake me, and I believed them.
They said that I was made in your image and that I was given dominion and power over all things. They told me that my faith in you would give me the strength to overcome all obstacles, that no weapon formed against me would prosper and that everything that rose up against me would fail, and I believed them.
God, I believed them and stood on what I had been taught. So why now have they forsaken me? Why now have they taken your love from me and sentenced me to damnation.
I believed in your agape love and now that I desire to share your love, they have left me. They have forsaken me. They call me an abomination. They say that I am immoral.
Those that built me up as a child have now decided to tear me down. Those that told me that your love was unconditional now tell me that I must limit my love. They say that my love for him, who was also made in your image, is not of you, and that to share your love, your agape love, with him is immoral.
God, if I am made in your image and he is made in your image, how can our love be immoral?
I believed them and now they have turned their back on me. I can’t believe them any more. But as I stand alone, I am left with no one else to believe, but you.
Dear Lord, why do they hate me?
Marion Barry at Anti-Marriage Equality and Anti-LGBT Rally in Washinton, DC
As I sit and ponder over the press and media coverage over same sex marriage, I listen to what those who claim to be your children are saying about me and I need to know, why do they hate me?
As a child, they told me that I had been made in your image and that you loved me unconditionally, they would say that you had agape love for me, and I believed them.
They told me that as long as I confessed from my mouth and believed in my heart that you would always be there for me, that you would never leave me nor forsake me, and I believed them.
They said that I was made in your image and that I was given dominion and power over all things. They told me that my faith in you would give me the strength to overcome all obstacles, that no weapon formed against me would prosper and that everything that rose up against me would fail, and I believed them.
God, I believed them and stood on what I had been taught. So why now have they forsaken me? Why now have they taken your love from me and sentenced me to damnation.
I believed in your agape love and now that I desire to share your love, they have left me. They have forsaken me. They call me an abomination. They say that I am immoral.
Those that built me up as a child have now decided to tear me down. Those that told me that your love was unconditional now tell me that I must limit my love. They say that my love for him, who was also made in your image, is not of you, and that to share your love, your agape love, with him is immoral.
God, if I am made in your image and he is made in your image, how can our love be immoral?
I believed them and now they have turned their back on me. I can’t believe them any more. But as I stand alone, I am left with no one else to believe, but you.
Dear Lord, why do they hate me?
Marion Barry at Anti-Marriage Equality and Anti-LGBT Rally in Washinton, DC
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