Blessed Are The Queer
Blessed are the Queer
You have heard it said
that queer love distorts the “proper” categories
of who counts as a man and what men are allowed to do
and who counts as a woman and what women are supposed to have done to them
and who counts as a person
and who counts as a partner.
But I say to you
What is queerer than the incarnation
disrupting the divide between the human realm and the divine?
Not dissolving the difference between the two
but eliminating the distance
and turning limitations into limitless love
and boundaries into opportunities
to make an unseen God tangible
in a rainbow of genders and bodies and partners and positions.
You have heard it said
that male-bodied visitors are more valuable than female-bodied children
and a man’s desire to penetrate or be penetrated by another
is worse than a man offering his daughters to the power-lust of an angry mob.
But I say to you
No one has ever seen God
—and of course they haven’t in a world like this,
but when you love one another –
when you and you and you love yourself and love each other
I say to you that God’s love – that God who is love
—is revealed, is manifest, is experienced, is present
in a way that would otherwise be invisible
in a way that would otherwise be impossible.
For we are the image of a queer God
who is at the same time
powerful beyond comprehension
and vulnerable beyond all reason
You have heard it said
that sex is an expression of power
and marriage is a property contract
and affection is a means for procreation.
What a sad, small vision to see love as so limited.
You have heard it said that you are an abomination.
But I say to you
that power-hungry people may not have the stomach for love beyond hierarchy.
And I say to you – Blessed are the queer.