Bullies are the real cowards
ON THE children’s playground, the bullies are obvious. They demand that everyone play their game, their way, or else. ‘Or else’ could be as mild as name-calling or an aggressive show of force. The bully picks on those who appear to be weaker. Doing the right thing is ignored.
The recommendations of the joint select committee reviewing laws on sexual offences and related issues were made public last week. The reaction of certain civil-society groups that didn’t get their own way was to pout and call the parliamentarians cowards, as stated in a Gleaner article on December 17, 2018.
Among other issues, these civilsociety groups are upset that they didn’t get state approval to kill babies (abortion) or make abnormal sexual choices (buggery) look normal. They didn’t get to deprive Jamaican citizens of their democratic right to determine the ideas to govern our nation’s laws and policies (through a referendum on abortion and buggery).
The parliamentarians were called cowardly because they also chose to affirm rational thinking and respect for the design of the human body. The report confirmed sex as the joining of the male and female genitalia, being the only two sexual and reproductive organs. Valuing the life of the unborn baby was enhanced by strengthening sentencing for the murder of a pregnant woman, among other recommendations.
The fuming civil-society groups claim to be interested in promoting human dignity and preserving fundamental freedoms and rights. In reality, their claims are a facade behind which they seek to impose on Jamaica a flawed ideology about sexual behaviour, an ideology that demeans true dignity, suppresses parental rights, freedom of conscience and expression, and exposes children to sexual predators. These groups know that if they were to plainly spell out their sexual ‘rights’ agenda, all wellthinking Jamaicans would immediately resist and reject same.
It is said that when confronted, bullies are exposed and slink away. Bullies are the real cowards. Whether in parliamentary debates, the media, on the street or the playground, Jamaicans must refuse to be deceived by the illogic of the sexual ‘rights’ movement. Preserving life and promoting human flourishing is our duty’s call.