Perversion to Uncouth
When families shun their sons, religion kills
Whatever it can find. What faiths love best
Entails the worst, Jesuitical skills
To shunt the highest laws to sidelines, wrest
Those laws away from central truths, and shrug
Those principles away. “Should we eat ham?”
Relgionists require a blinding drug
To undermine high hopes and try to scam
Us from the purest stories and to let
Us lick the hatreds we desire, be sly
In robes of Ku Klux Klan and let us pet
Our pistols as we hoist the lynched one high.
Love brothers as ourselves but firstly God.
What comes instead is hideously odd.
~ Phillip Whidden