" they want us to believe that the way we love is wrong

“and a man who will lie down with a male in a woman’s bed
both of them have made an abomination.”

but conveniently forget how David’s and Jonathan’s souls were knit together,
that the two of them had a bond between the two of them that was too strong to ignore
that the two of them formed a covenant with one another.

“the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David,
and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.”

that David preferred the love of Jonathan to the love of any woman "

― Courtney Carola , Have Some Pride: A Collection of LGBTQ+ Inspired Poetry