Dear Editor,

This letter is in response to the article published by The Gleaner titled “Politicians branded ‘coward’ in buggery law backlash”. The article, published on the heels of the repeal of the buggery laws in Barbados and Antigua, featured Glenroy Murray, head of the Jamaica Forum for All Sexuals and Gays, and Maurice Tomlinson as both, with aggressive optimism, brand our democratically elected officials “cowards”.

Tomlinson recently lost his case against our local television stations as he sought to force them to show pro-LGBT content. He is seeking to have our law against sodomy repealed and, himself married to a man, is already seeking to pressure Jamaica to legalise same-sex marriage in the Inter-American Court on Human Rights.

Concerning the buggery law case, he wrongly noted, “The people who are all involved in this case, they’re all working to prevent this case from going forward cause it’s like they’re trying to delay the inevitable. As if by some miracle they think equality will not come to Jamaica if they just fight hard enough and put up enough roadblocks.” He seems to think that the honourable judges, the Attorney General and her team, the churches and other parties to the case are all conspiring to block that which cannot be blocked, the inevitable wave of legally recognised buggery. These unfounded comments constitute an attack on the integrity, independence, and conduct of the Supreme Court of Jamaica and ought not to be taken lightly. Indeed, it is merely the tip of the spear of ubiquitous animosity and disrespect meted out against everything that stands in the way of their holy grail of sodomy and sexual anarchy.

In their minds, neither the courts nor democracy itself has any value. In the lustful pursuit of buggery, same-sex marriage, comprehensive sexuality education, and a long list of morally reprehensible themes, their animosity towards our highest courts, our national leaders, and our democratic system of government lay bare. To these two, the fact that the vast majority of the nation doesn’t want buggery taught to their children as normal behaviour, the inevitable outcome of legalisation, doesn’t matter one ounce. The 88 per cent that would vote against buggery in a referendum might as well be 99. To them, ramming through the repealing of this law should come at any cost.

I am happy the vast majority of Jamaicans and national leaders don’t feel that way. We have to think carefully about the implications of the decisions that we make. Our unique culture, resilient values, and national sovereignty should neither be swayed by fallen small islands, imposing large states, nor by these two who are bold in their promotion of perversion.

May our honourable courts, national leaders, and our citizens be filled with true wisdom from above, even if we have to lead that way alone.

Dr Daniel Thomas

danielthomaschristian@yahoo.com