Dear Editor,
Your editorial of June 13 praising the removal of the cross-dressing law and advocating that while we are at it, let’s also go ahead and legalise buggery, is exactly what’s wrong with endorsement of sexual deviant practices, promotion of the destruction of traditional family values and copycatting notions actively pushed by decadent western societies. At least, Mr. Granger had some sense when he said let’s be careful what we copy from others, and President Jagdeo had vetoed a bill.
While Guyana drowns in floods, houses are under water up to their roofs, animals are dying and crops are lost, COVID decimates lives every day, and crime is out of control, our PPP Government has seen the urgent need to introduce legislation to decriminalize cross-dressing. Who are they trying to please? Never mind they have not yet brought legislation on the revision of the Natural Resource Fund, introduction of legislation on local content, legislation on election reform, government officials stealing and misappropriating public funds, repeat gun-toting criminals released on bail, murderers getting light sentences, and a host of other matters needing legislative action.
The SN editorial argues that Guyana is a secular state and seems to argue that religious values should not determine or influence what becomes law. That’s a silly argument because there is an interaction and interrelatedness between all social institutions, with each social institution affecting and influencing the others. It is not only religion that promotes marriage as between a man and a woman, and that the genders are male and female. It is historically inherent in all social institutions.
The SN is surely not naïve to say, “What is being campaigned for by rights groups is the decriminalisation of relations between consenting same-sex adults, not any right to marriage.” The sexual deviant movement want deviant practices to be the new normal, and to destroy traditional values and practices. In those western countries who are funding these sexual deviant movements in Guyana, we have seen a flurry of lawsuits being filed to protect the freedom of expression and human rights of the majority with values largely influenced by their religion.
In some states, they no longer put “male” and “female” on wedding licenses. They put “Partner 1,” and “Partner 2.” Businesses are taken to court for following their religious beliefs in how they conduct business. A baker was taken to court and lost her business because she refused to bake a cake for a same sex wedding. Court personnel are fired for refusing to perform same-sex marriages. They are teaching children in schools that not because you have boy parts you are a boy, and not because you have girl parts, you are a girl. In the US, there is now persecution of people guided by religious values who do not buy in to these notions.
No wonder the church people in Guyana – the so-called Pastors and Apostles – have gone silent and become the “walking dead” because they are scared of the sexual deviant lobby.
To be clear, I believe everyone has equal, fundamental rights under the Constitution, as it should be, and that no one should be denied employment or be discriminated against as is in the Constitution now. I also believe the policy of one of the smartest US Presidents – Bill Clinton – “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is the best way to handle these matters.
Sincerely,
Dr. Jerry Jailall
Editor-in-Chief’s note:
This newspaper stands fully by the editorial.
