They call me an unrepentant homosexual. But they don't know me well. To repent is "to turn." What I do is keep turning to this love in my heart. And this leads me to turning away from hatred.

I repent. I repent of swallowing hatred's lies. I repent of assenting to hatred's threats. I repent of adjusting to the everyday habits of hatred.

I repent. I repent of excusing hatred's ways. I repent of being silenced by hatred's snares. I repent of seeking a home within the world according to hatred.

I repent. I repent. I repent. I repent. I repent. Thanks be to God for this rising from the dead.

— Pat Youngdahl, Subversive Devotions