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- From: lcrew@andromeda.rutgers.edu (Louie Crew)
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- Subject: LesBiGay Thanksgiving
- Message-ID: <Nov.22.08.25.35.1992.22925@andromeda.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 13:25:35 GMT
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- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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- We who are lesbian, gay, or bisexual experience fierce ironies in being
- defined reductively by our plumbing. When neighbors persecute us for being
- different, toughs do not shout "poet!", "thinker!", "religious!", "tri-
- lingualist!" or any of the significant other ways we deviate. It is not
- surprising that in reclaiming our wholeness, we stress spirit and mind.
- The most neglected commandment is to love God with these -- but not with
- these alone. God commands us to love God with our bodies too.
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- To fulfill this commandment, we must integrate our minds and our bodies. And
- when we struggle to do so, we have perhaps our most important gifts to give
- to heterosexuals as well.
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- We cannot integrate what we will not name, we cannot be of one spirit with
- that which we cannot pray about.
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- When God made Creation, She looked upon it and said, not with a frown, but
- with gladness, "It is Good!" When we did not hear, He said, "Call not
- unclean any one whom I have made."
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- From Anglosaxon _hal_ we derive three modern words: _hale_ (as in healthy),
- _whole_ (as in complete), and _holy_. The three still are one. Thanks be
- to God.
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- Lesbigay Litany for Thanksgiving
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- We thank you, creator,
- for penises and vaginas,
- for breasts and chests,
- for mouths and teeth,
- for pre-cum and tubular lubrication,
- for heads cut and uncut, with and without cheese,
- for clits slow and fast, high and low,
- for nipples hard and nipples soft,
- for nipples hairy and nipples smooth,
- for navels, innies and outies,
- for rectums,
- for slits galore and slippery places,
- for nerves in ears and toes and wrists,
- for blinks and winks,
- for sperm, for eggs,
- for legs and arms that squeeze,
- for scrota and wombs.
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- For the first person to kiss us with open mouth,
- whom we now name, for ________,
- for the first person to whisper or nod or pant,
- for our first hot dream,
- for our first wet and sticky sheets,
- for the first person to stay overnight,
- whom we now name, for ________,
- for the first person to lick lips,
- for ejaculation, for spasms,
- for involuntary lust,
- for sweat, for pubes between the teeth,
- we thank you, creator.
-
- For those who have suffered for our love,
- for every lesbian murdered as a witch,
- for every male burned at the stake, shot, or
- drawn and quartered,
- for every "dishonorable" discharge,
- for every job stolen, every career smashed,
- every dream deferred,
- bless us, Just One.
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- Bless the victims of rape and child abuse,
- Bless the persons with AIDS and ARC.
- Bless those who have died.
- especially those whom we now name: _________
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- For every dyke, for every sissy,
- for every quean, for every dagger,
- for every butch, for every femme,
- we thank you, Creator.
- For gay male clowns and lesbian priests,
- for gay surgeons and hairdressers,
- for lesbian truck drivers and scholars,
- for every lesbigay waiter in the world
- and for every lesbigay student,
- we thank you, Creator.
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- For gay imagination, for gay joy,
- for lesbian excitement, for lesbian arousal,
- for the kindness of strangers,
- for lesbigay art, music, and poetry,
- for lesbigay prayer, quietness, and peace,
- for lesbigay gentleness and courage,
- for lesbigay scientists and designers,
- we thank you, Creator.
-
- But especially for all lesbians and gays dear to us,
- for ........
-
- [Here the congregation will name those dear to them.
- When done, the officiant will continue...]
-
- We thank you, we thank you, we thank you. AMEN
-
- [The congregation responds:]
-
- We thank you, we thank you, we thank you. AMEN
-
-
- --Louie Crew
-
- Copyright 1990, 1992 by Louie Crew. Permission granted to anyone who sends
- him a copy of published version: P. O. Box 30, Newark, NJ 07101
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- Louie Crew, Assoc. Prof., Academic Foundations Dept., Rutgers U./NWK 07102
- lcrew@andromeda.rutgers.edu 201-485-4503
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