Message #8229 - HolySmoke
   Date : 16-May-93 06:03
   From : Sean McCullough
     To : All *conferees*
Subject : Open Letter to Jesus Christ.
Location: FidoNet's HOLYSMOKE Echo

NOTE:  The  following  does  not describe  ME  personally,  but  the
entirety of the GRIEVOUSLY WRONGED homosexual/bisexual community  in
postmodern AmeriKKKa.


            -=|   AN OPEN LETTER TO JESUS CHRIST   |=-


Dear Jesus,

This letter is to describe why it is that I cannot either believe in
you or follow you any more.

I'm one of God's gay children.

You may well ask what one has to do with the other. Well asked.

What  one  has  to do with the other is simple. In your  name,  your
alleged   followers  have  denied  me  even  the   slightest   human
courtesies,  attempted the worst manner of brainwashing  techniques,
and  demanded that I represent myself as something that I am not and
cannot  be  -- all because they believe that this is what  you  want
them to do.

These supposed followers of yours have told me that I am bad, that I
am  evil,  that I am sick, because I would rather have  sex  with  a
member  of my own gender than a member of the other; because I  have
the  common sense and compassion to NOT bring children into a  world
which  is  patently obviously both overpopulated and  child-hostile;
and because I insist on my RIGHT to conduct MY sexually affectionate
relationships  in  just as much public view  as  the  straights  and
reproductives do.

As  punishment for these so-called "crimes",  I have been  subjected
to   torture,   humiliation,   rape,  dispossession,   unemployment,
disenfranchisement, so-called "miracle prayer sessions"  whose  goal
was  to "cure" me of something which is NOT either a disease or  any
less  natural  than the orientation of those who are  subjecting  me
thereto; and many, many other WRONGS besides.

All in your name, Jesus.

I  can no longer live this way. I WILL live in peace, at least  with
myself.  I will live in INTEGRITY, at least with myself. If all  the
vile  things  I  have  described above are really  what  worship  of
Jehovah  is  really  all  about, then I will  happily  embrace  what
obviously   becomes  the  path  of  love,  light,  peace,  humanity,
integrity, and dignity -- the path of Jehovah's adversary, Satan.

But  if  these  doings by your alleged followers are  NOT  what  you
intended;  if you never DID demand that I, and those like  me,  live
this  lie;  if all of the atrocities I have been through are  things
you never imagined or authorized...........

......then  I apologize for insulting you by buying into  the  utter
falsehood that they are purveying to an unsuspecting humankind;

And,  when  you  show up at the door with your famous  cat  o'  nine
tails, you'll find at least one pistol and one shotgun -- MINE -- on
the same side with you, AGAINST these supposed "followers" of yours!

                           Your Ob't Servant,

                                 A. Queer