Today, I want to share a poem I wrote a while back, entitled Michael. You will get the gist of what it is all about:
michael sits alone by the stairs
waiting for school to end
michael waits alone in the park
shooting hoops to no one
and michael is at home, in the dark of her room
in boys underpants, hiding out
michael is who i am
underneath those pants
michael is who i am
when i am wearing the things that make you ask me
if i am a boy or a girl
gender-obsessed in this world
and so michael, is really just michelle
he’s all i ever was
he’s all michelle ever was
he is michelle
she is michael
michael is who i am
when people go on their rants
they CHOOSE to go on their rants
about how boys are boys
and girls are girls
michael sits alone on the swings
micahel sitsa lone and is happy
michael sits alone and is thinking
michael sits alone and is me
To tie it all together, I had some thoughts today, as well. I thought on a friend of mine who was raised Catholic but no longer believes in Christ as the figurehead for her faith. It can take years, a lifetime, for a person to finally come to what they KNOW to be truth, for their FAITH to evolve, form and solidify It could a person a lifetime to understand what Christ really means, who He is, why He is important to some, etc, or for any faith of course, that someone is investigating or trying to be part of. It’s something that one allows themselves to grow into. Faith, KNOWING, and thus truth, can never be a concept forced on us. While the churches, the religions, hammer away at homosexuality, gender variance, etc, there are people walking around in real time, investigating THEMSELVES, how they feel, what they see when they look in the mirror, and who they love. Speaking from personal experience then too, this can take years to figure out, understand, and finally feel comfortable, all within YOURSELF. So here I find, that faith, Christ, my identity, my orientation, all converge as various paths of growth, that each require the same amount of care. And yet, here we’ve got churches, mainly led by those I am sure, who DIDNT spend years finding their faith, telling folks that they have to feel one way only in their body, and in their hearts. The human person wasnt built to believe in Christ, with that being their end-goal, yet we have churches yammering that if you dont “accept Christ as your Savior”, you’re not saved and assured a place in heaven, or whatever the heck they say, effectively treating Christianity and faith, the same as they treat and view homosexuality. I am too tired to think of an all-encompassing word to tie it all together, so I’ll leave that task to you.
thepunkorganist 
Excellent.
thank you for reading!
I read a book called “Faitheist”. It was a story that I had a hard time fully relating to since I never had the whole experience of trying to be a gay Christian. Chris Stedman had that conflict. That was not the main point of the book but it was a very big chunk of it.
The reason I read it was because I am like Chris in being an atheist but not wanting to let it separate me from those who are different.