THE EDITOR, Sir:
I WANT to join hands and hearts with all positive thinking Jamaicans and applaud Dr. Earl Hendricks on his article: 'While Rome Burns, Nero Fiddles' Sunday Gleaner, December 21, 2003 and Mr. Leighton Levy of the Star Newspaper titled: 'Keep it in the closet' Friday, December 19, 2003.
I asked the question, if ganja were grown in almost every school in Jamaica, would we have the request from the interest groups about more tolerance? Isn't it a fact that whatever we tolerate we get ?
Secondly, why should we scrap the buggery law because the Reverend and a few interest groups are giving out sounds? Imagine on the front page of the Daily Gleaner, October 10, 2003 calling for decriminalisation of the country's law. Is our society really ready for more homosexual encouragement? I was very disappointed and disturbed to hear from the Reverend that because there are a lot of homosexuals in our schools we should try to tolerate them. When Jesus chased the money changers out of the temple, he did not in anyway tolerate them. No way! And so, there is nowhere in the Bible that says Jesus did tolerate them (homosexuals).
According to the Reverend...as a society we cannot tolerate anything that removes people from human rights protection. But what is that? What he is calling for is worse. He never thought of moral values. What I expected the Reverend to do is to fight! To beat down those who are in low and high places in our society. Call upon them to depart from their shameful doings. Not to get involved, not to support in anyway.
The Reverend should be ready, not just as a church man, but one of our leaders to tell the nation, to point out the dangers, the offensiveness, the segregation, the division, the unhappiness, the instability, the shamefulness that come upon the society from homosexuals and demonstrate the life of cleanliness, Godliness for the betterment of our society, morally, spiritually and physically.
I am, etc.,
EWAN ABENG
Alleppo Dist. P.A.
St. Mary
