THE EDITOR, Sir:
I AM not an educated man. I never went to a university and I never attended college. I always wondered what great learning did I miss now as I grow older and observe the behaviour and thinking of so-called learned men. I am convinced I missed nothing.
Take the subject of sex and sexuality now being debated locally and around the world. Why is the reasoning of those men and women of higher learning so confusing and complex? Does education cause a man to think too much so he ends up not thinking at all? When one reads the writings of the so-called learned writers, one would believe they were debating some abstract theory in mathematics.
Sex and sexuality is a simple subject. Children, boys and girls, left alone soon discover what is what and where it goes, what sex is, and what it is not. It doesn't even need the Bible. Sex is simple. It is also simple in its purpose. It is for the purpose of reproduction. With all creatures great and small, from the mighty elephant to the tiny flea there is male and female with distinct organs with specific purposes. When a man copulates with another man he is not having sexual intercourse, he is performing a weird, abnormal, insanitary and unhygienic act which produces nothing but the potential for disease.
Indeed, the first recorded cases of HIV/AIDS occurred in New York in the 1970s when homosexuals were dying of a strange disease. Whether they caused it or not they were the first victims. Homosexuality needs no high-flung debate to know its wrong. The debate should be to find out why and how to fix it. Not seeking to find ways or arguments to defend and make it acceptable.
Finally, kids should not be taught these things. Homosexuals should be observed and studied to find out why they behave the way they do and formulate treatment. Sex was meant to prolong and preserve the species. Homosexuality will destroy it.
I am, etc.,
SIDNEY ELLIOTT
Hialeah Drive
Kingston 19
