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Holy Bullshit!

Betti Bernardi

Baptist Conventions
and Arrogance proclaim
Damn those who kill the Jews–
(Needs them live for conversion?)

And, women, too
You’ll know your place
Hearth, home and husband
(Return to the Status Quo)

Conversion, sure, among
Gay folks–Repent! Relent!
Heterosexuality’s the aim
(And, more Baptists, sure.)

Muslims, Buddhists, Shaman beware,
Christianity defined by Baptists
Is the only way to salvation
(and pure Baptist truth.)

Tell me how to live
Ye men of the Convention
What to do, to say, to pray
(So you maintain the perks of subversion?)

Why not Catholic, Unitarian or Bahai
Faithful, here, too, abide
Why would a man of thought
(Exclude any of conscience?)

Perhaps because the man of thought
is as depleted as they,
the men of the Baptist Convention
(Who would tell you how to think.)

Oh, ‘tis angry I am,
Far past incredulity
To think these bastards have the stage
(And strut, bolder, by the day.)

I am, genuinely, happy for you
that you have found your way
Now, grant me same, the freedom you tout
(for others to do the same.)

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