You have done nothing but coerce us into the shadows. Preaching out "all are sinners", and "no sin is greater than another." Yet you scrawl accusation across our brows, and pull your hand away if any of us reach out for help.
You've simply branded us with a brilliant, flowing, rainbow-colored "scarlet" letter. Labelled us not as friend. Not as son. Not as sister;
Sinner.
Yet you don't take the time to know us. You don't spend time with us. We are simply something foreign. Something different, an Other. There, it seems, for you to tame, to remedy and to "save".
Keep your condescending love. You bleat "all are welcome here" but, it seems, we're the ones you reserve the right to constantly remind us of our status.
Sinner.
You decide not to get your hands dirty, you refuse to affirm our humanity.
We are not pawns to be used in you political debates! This is not a cultural war, its a simple fight to be seen as what we are. We are people.
We love. We hope. We cry. We pray.
Just like you.
Listen to your own philosophy! Stop telling us that sin is our deepest identity. Stop condemning us. Stop choosing Principle over Grace.
So that in the end, when you come to us and ask us "Why?"
We don't have to say, "I came to you, but you turned your back on me and did nothing."
Because in the end we remember, not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends...
