Dear Editor,

On June 26, 2015, the United States became the most populous country to legalise same-sex marriage following the US Supreme Court’s decision. This has surely disturbed the minds of many Jamaicans, especially the Christian community. According to these Christian folks, this signifies the coming of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. I wonder if these people know that the US is the twenty-first country to recognise same-sex marriage. He would have come by now if this was the ‘calling card’!

Why didn’t they say that God was going to come after any of the 278 cases of sexual intercourse with children under 16 happened since the beginning of the year, according to the Centre for the Investigation of Sexual Offences And Child Abuse (CISOCA) — not to mention the ones that have gone unreported? Jesus wasn’t gonna come when the nine in Charleston were murdered, but he’s definitely coming now that gay marriage is legal in the US?

But then again we should all be happy because the coming of Jesus has been our wish. So I think we owe the gays and the Supreme Court a big thank you for Jesus’ early coming. So instead of bashing this decision, let’s prepare our hearts for an early arrival of the Lord. This also goes to show how the US is always determining Jamaica’s faith.

Kashane Taylor

kashanetaylor@ymail.com