MY HOLOCAUST

Leviticus 20.13 requires homosexuals die.

A Jew in Medina persuaded Mohammad

Judaism had some good ideas for the

Monotheism his Arab friend was hatching.

When Christianity replaced the Pantheon

It added The Old Testament to the New

So Leviticus reached almost everywhere.

I described elsewhere many creative ways

Various worldly places executed queers

So spectators could watch, sometimes

Amused, sometimes horrified, the better

To learn the lesson against temptation.

How many hundreds of thousands died

Over millenia in agony we can’t know

But even now Christian evangelicals have

Persuaded African nations like Uganda

To make homosexuality a capital offense,

Wishing they could do the same at home.

As usual, not all executions are official.

Is this holocaust over?  I don’t think so.