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Intercession for Lesbian and Gay Ugandans

from hymns to swear by by Pádraig Ó Tuama

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Included in 'Readings from the Book of Exile', Canterbury Press, 2013.

For further information on the increasing criminalisation of LGBT Ugandans, read:
www.boxturtlebulletin.com/slouching-toward-kampala

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This is not a liberal agenda
Think about the people in the prisons in Uganda.

These are bodies like yours,
mine.
Close your eyes, please
close them
Do not open them until you’ve breathed a little deepr
Put the fingers of your one hand to the wrist of the other
and keep your pulse a moment?
Are you calm?
Are you content in holding your own skin
with your own safe and holy skin?

Think about the people sleeping in the prison in Uganda.
This is not a liberal agenda.

These are people.
not quite corpses… yet

And it’s not about forgetting
all your morals with some rationalist adjustment
or some sad subjective judgment
The Samaritan did not sin
yet still was hated
berated
judged and deemed a lesser kind of human.

Think about the people in Uganda.
This is not some liberal agenda.

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from hymns to swear by, released March 17, 2010

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