The Continued Debate About Homosexuality:

The Reverend Devon Dick , Pastor of Boulevard Baptist Church, wrote an arti­cle in Thursday’s Daily Gleaner Titled ‚[Homophobia in

reverse]. In the Article the rev­erend re-vis­it­ed the ongo­ing debate sur­round­ing com­ments made by Senior Superintendent Fitz Bailey,regarding what he con­strued to be the dis­pro­por­tion­ate involve­ment of gays in the much vaunt­ed lot­to scam. Bailey a senior police com­man­der in Jamaica, accused gays of being the main per­pe­tra­tors of lot­tery scams, the nation’s top police offi­cer said that was not true.
Commissioner Owen Ellington was not hap­py with Bailey’s state­ment and expressed regret “for any con­cern, anx­i­ety, and any appear­ance of unfair label­ing which may have been con­strued.” Ellington also said the Jamaican Constabulary Force does not sin­gle out indi­vid­ual groups in their polic­ing pro­ce­dures. Of note is the fact that SSP Bailey have made no retrac­tion, and stands by his comments.

In his Article Dick gave a rea­soned , intel­li­gent sum­ma­tion as it relates to the facts,. Of course this con­tin­ue to be a sore top­ic in the world, and prob­a­bly more so in Jamaica ‚a coun­try that is less tol­er­ant of homo­sex­u­al­i­ty(. find link here Jamaica Gleaner​.com).

Homosexuals the world over and those in Jamaica want to have us believe their cru­sade is for acceptance.

The truth is Homosexuals are real­ly not look­ing for accep­tance, most peo­ple real­ly do not care what any­one does in the con­fines, and pri­va­cy of their own homes . What they want to do is to have us dis­avow our way of life. They want to force their lifestyle down our throats, mak­ing the union between a man and woman sud­den­ly old-fash­ioned, out­dat­ed , and plain stu­pid. They dem­a­gogue peo­ple who dis­agree with them , paint­ing them homophobes .

As I have said in pre­vi­ous blogs I do not need any­one to show me data to sup­port homo­sex­u­al­i­ty, I do not need any kind of infor­ma­tion in sup­port of that lifestyle, I know it is wrong. I do not sup­port Homosexuality, nei­ther do I agree with it, I how­ev­er do NOT fear homo­sex­u­als, last time I looked a pho­bia was a fear. Some homo­sex­u­als believe peo­ple should tip-toe around them, now they are telling us when we see them com­mit­ting crimes we should not use their spe­cial char­ac­ter­is­tic to describe them. Jamaica’s police com­mis­sion­er Owen Ellington has shown a lack of back­bone, he has suc­cumbed to pres­sure and polit­i­cal cor­rect­ness, and he ought to be ashamed.

I do not care about what Ellington has done in the past, on this sub­ject he showed absolute cow­ardice. Frankly I do not care about Ellington , what wor­ries me is that he would leave SSP Bailey out to dry when Bailey was absolute­ly cor­rect. It is a sad day for human­i­ty when we sur­ren­der our dig­ni­ty on the altar of finan­cial expe­di­en­cy. Buggery is a crime in Jamaica as it should, Owen Ellington has no legs on which to stand on this issue, save and except for the adu­la­tion of gays and les­bians, the crim­i­nal rights sup­port­ers in Amnesty International, and the oth­er anar­chis­tic groups which run Jamaica. A wise man once said those who stand for noth­ing , falls for any­thing. There seem to be no short­age of sup­port­ers of homo­sex­u­al­i­ty these days in Jamaica. I was lit­er­al­ly stunned to see the lev­els of con­dem­na­tion of SSP Bailey on this mat­ter, And then it hit me. The prob­lem was not with the mes­sage. When one con­sid­ers Jamaica, a soci­ety where most peo­ple con­demn homo­sex­u­al­i­ty, the out­rage against SSP Bailey’s state­ments are par­tic­u­lar­ly stun­ning. It shows an appar­ent dis­con­nect from the seri­ous­ness of the mes­sage ‚and a con­tempt for the messenger.

Jamaica’ Police still suf­fers today from the stig­ma of being cre­at­ed as night watch­men. To this day there are no rich peo­ple’s chil­dren in the police depart­ment. I am appalled that the peo­ple stuck as they are in all things pre-colo­nial Jamaica , still have not fig­ured out who the real ene­my is. As Election sea­son draws clos­er they are get­ting out their Orange and green shirts to cel­e­brate those they ele­vate to the sta­tus of deity, Politicians, oppor­tunis­tic vul­tures that preys on their igno­rance , then suck the blood from them like mod­ern-day vampires.
Even Devon Dick in his sup­posed sup­port of Fitz Bailey unwit­ting­ly falls into the trap of dis­re­spect­ing SSP Bailey.
Quote:
If Bailey came to the con­clu­sion that par­tic­i­pants in a homo­sex­u­al lifestyle are the main per­pe­tra­tors in the ille­gal lot­tery scam based on prej­u­dice or based on deport­ment, then he should be disciplined.
Those com­ments would be bet­ter suit­ed or direct­ed at an errant child.
Not an accom­plished edu­cat­ed professional .
Jamaicans shown their propen­si­ty for the ways of their old colo­nial mas­ters, and to this day their vocab­u­lary reflects it , nowhere is it more evi­dent than in the vocab­u­lary of the snooty uptown social climbers.

They con­tin­ue to talk about dis­ci­plin­ing grown accom­plished peo­ple, how about using the word (sanc­tion). They refer to Police offi­cers as (rude) how about using the word dis­re­spect­ful? They con­tin­ue to refer to police offi­cers as police bway , whilst at the same time demand­ing respect from police offi­cers. Were that infor­ma­tion com­ing from the lib­er­al bedrock called the UWI no one would have a prob­lem with it, facts are facts. Jamaicans are still mired in their lit­tle castes, still reach­ing for their piece of the aristocracy.

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