The Tribune

EDITOR, The Tribune

Pride Bahamas spokeswoman Alexus D’Marco obviously understands the provisions in the constitution which allows for the freedom of expression and the freedom of movement and assembly for all citizens, although I don’t believe the framers of the constitution had in mind Bahamian homosexuals marching though the streets of Nassau. A gay pride parade in The Bahamas would be an audacious move, considering the age-old accusations of homophobia and discrimination against LGBT members. Such a public spectacle would finally expose many of the nameless, faceless members of the LGBT who have successfully shielded their sexual orientation from the wider heterosexual community for years.

Many of the legislators of the first Majority Rule administration of Sir Lynden Pindling were either of the Baptist or Anglican tradition. Consequently, the constitution was composed within a Christian framework. In her Tribune interview, D’Marco mentioned the Organisation of American States, as if The Bahamas would be intimidated by this massive international conglomerate to accommodate the LGBT community in its many demands. Without delineating the biblical position on this matter, seeing that The Bahamas is routinely touted as being a Christian nation, will D’Marco and other LGBT spokespersons champion the cause of zoophiles and paedophiles? They’re already unwittingly putting The Bahamas on this slippery moral slope.

While prominent bestiality advocate and zoophile Michael Kiok is fighting to get the German government to lift its ban on humans having sexual relations with animals, David Thorstad of North American Man/Boy Love Association is fighting to persuade United States lawmakers to decriminalise pederasty. Not surprisingly, Kiok, who unashamedly admitted to having an unusually bizarre relationship with his dog named Cissy, has argued along the same lines as LGBT lobbyists. Like LGBT spokespersons, Kiok views himself as being in the same predicament as African Americans in the civil rights movement. Bahamian homosexuals and their international counterparts see their cause as being a civil rights matter, and not moral. In the event the Bahamian LGBT community is ever given the same latitude and privileges as heterosexuals, individuals who share the same immoral views as Kiok and Thorstad will appear on the scene arguing that the constitution gives them the same rights as heterosexuals.

A gay pride parade would be an affront to the Christian foundation of The Bahamas, in all things considered. I don’t believe many of the members of Pride Bahamas will have the temerity to march down Bay Street in broad daylight in celebration of their sexual orientation.

KEVIN EVANS

Freeport

Grand Bahama

July 14, 2019