Multicolored Persecution

We may not agree with you, but we love you. We may not condone your choices, but we accept you as made in God's image. We are not afraid of you, but we believe God wants a different life for you. Why do you say we hate you? Is it hate to disagree? Is it hate to prefer our ways? Is it hate to want to stop you from driving over a cliff? Is it love to agree with everything you stand for and to submit to all your demands? Do you hate us? Then, why do you attempt to destroy those Who will not bake cakes for you Arrange bouquets for you Or ensconce our beliefs? For testifying our inability To violate our consciences With respectful, cordial dictation? Is that love? Is it love to hurl Fecal-laden vulgarities at us? Is it love to Threaten us? Is it tolerance to Ban our books And ruin our careers? Is it open-mindedness To silence us And force us to applaud Your bedroom activities? Is it tolerance to Create laws that Infiltrate our churches and institutions And imprison our pastors and spiritual leaders? Why do you force to Indoctrinate and confuse our children With curriculum that belongs in the home And not the school Why do you steal a parent's right To teach a child their own values On sexuality and morality Why must your pride permeate Our ballparks Our museums And even our embassies? Is there not more to life Than sexuality and gender? What of ethnic pride? Why must your flag fly And not the flag of The immigrants' children The slaves' children And especially the murdered natives' children Why must we pay For your surgeries and medications When epipens, inhalers, and many vital surgeries Are not considered essential or politically correct? Why must you declare That the First and Thirteenth Amendments Do not apply to your causes Especially as it pertains to the Nazarenes Even though many Judeans, Mohammedans, and even Freethinking Atheists Share our views? Is this still America? Then don't censor us Don't persecute us But allow us the same freedom That you seek for yourselves Alas We are all human No matter what or how we Believe Think Feel Live Alas We all have the right To live as we wish And we all have the right To live lives contrary to Tradition Norms Convention Nature God And we all have the right to Disagree with The ways of others And declare our ways as better Alas There is still a Bill of Rights Stars and Stripes And red, blue, and white So keep being you And let us be free To be us.