THE Jamaica Churches Action Uniting Society for Emancipation (Jamaica CAUSE) is urging all Jamaicans of voting age to get enumerated and use their vote to “protect family value”.

“As the country approaches a general election, Jamaica CAUSE will take the opportunity to encourage every Jamaican of voting age, including Christians, to get enumerated and use their vote to protect family value,” the group said in a release to the press.

“The United States, which earlier this year sent its LGBT Special Envoy Randy Berry to Jamaica, has committed to advancing LGBT rights globally. Secretary of State John Kerry has described the mission as the heart and conscience of that country’s diplomacy. The Caribbean family and fundamental freedoms are, therefore, under increasing threat,” the release added.

It added: “The US and United Kingdom have legalised same-sex marriage and criminalised dissent and the jailing of county clerk Kim Davis in Kentucky for refusing to issue marriage licences to same-sex couples vividly illustrates some of the implications of the LGBT agenda.”

The group is to stage a mass rally under the theme ‘Defending the family, faith and freedom’, in Half-Way-Tree, St Andrew on Sunday, September 27.

A press launch for the rally was held last Thursday at the group’s secretariat on Fairway Avenue in Kingston. The rally is set to kick off at 5:00 pm.

CAUSE is the same organisation that last year June staged a mass rally that blocked off a section of Half-Way-Tree along Constant Spring Road, to counter a push by gay rights proponents.

As it did last year, CAUSE is again trying to mobilise thousands of Christians “to come out” and “affirm the nation’s stance that marriage is between one man and one woman”.