cauchemar 10 years, 7 months ago on Bahamians given asylum in Canada
Bahamians given asylum in Canada
People need to get their facts straight. A) There are many grounds under which asylum is granted. Some of those grounds have to do with not having full range of legal protections in a country that heterosexual people have B) LGBT people do not have the full range of protections under law that heterosexual people have. Example--go and read the Employment act and see the grounds under which you have protection from unfair dismissal. Sexual orientation and gender presentation are not included. If you are found to be gay or transgendered in this country, you can be fired, held back from promotion, not hired etc without being able to seek redress in law. D) There are people in the Bahamas that have been dismissed from jobs, held back from promotions etc because of their sexual orientation --or even perceived orientation. Furthermore, yes there are people in the Bahamas that have been assaulted because of their actual or suspected sexual orientation. Just because you personally don't know them doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Given the fact that there are no protections in law, such matters are actually underreported and not collected as specific hate crimes, and this is one of the criticisms that our fellow members of the UN lobby at us every time these matters get reviewed in Human Rights reports--because we have no institution dedicated to collecting information about hate crimes, or crimes specifically caused due to sexual orientation or gender, the amount of such action is constantly underreported, and we can sit back and say "those things don't happen here." Lastly it is a myth that gay people are any more successful than the rest of the population--even generally. There are poor gays, rich gays, smart ones, idiots. Just because we can point to the two bankers or politician and his lawyer bf who are living in a gated community doesn't mean there isn't a poor butch girl in Kemp Rd who is struggling to get by.
BahamianKing 10 years, 7 months ago on Bahamians given asylum in Canada
Bahamians given asylum in Canada
A lot of ignorant posts, in this forum. First of all; “marriage” is not “ordained by God”, and isn’t a solely Christian institution. Atheists can get married, Buddhists can get married, Muslims can get married, etc… So don’t claim that marriage is a “Christian institution, and ordained by God”. Hell; you could even marry two businesses, or two contracts! Marriage is simply a contract between two people who agree to share everything they have, with one another (can be signed in a church, on the beach, in the court, anywhere).
Secondly; STOP BEING HYPOCRITES, and using the bible to push your hateful agenda. Christianity – as in its name – is a religion based on Christ. If you want to talk about homosexuality being an abomination in the bible, then talk about the other 150+ abominations the bible mentions. If everyone were to live by what’s listed as abominations in the bible, we’d all have to be in a self-induced coma for the rest of our lives (after asking for forgiveness, of course). From women wearing pant-suites to work, to eating shellfish, to wearing clothing of life fabric, to lying, to eating 3-day old ham/pork, and the list goes on-and-one…all “abominations”, an none greater than the other.
Stop poking at splinters, and pull the damn wooden plank out of your eyes...sheesh!