The Tribune

EDITOR, The Tribune.

Radical elements within the  LGBTQ community scored a major victory when the United States Supreme Court finally acquiesced to their unreasonable demands by striking down prohibitions against same-sex marriage in all 50 states in the Obergefell v Hodges case. The court ruled five to four.

This ethically disastrous decision may have been indirectly influenced by the administration of President Barack Obama and former NFL player Michael Sam, who rose to superstardom after going public about his homosexuality. The former has been dubbed a flip-flopper by American conservatives.

When Obama ran for the presidency in 2008, and for the US Senate in 2004, he said that he opposed same-sex marriage. He currently supports it wholeheartedly. This is vintage political expediency.

Here in The Bahamas, talks have began in earnest that this country will emulate America, as was the case in May 1991, when the then PLP government under the late Prime Minister Sir Lynden Pindling legalised homosexuality between consenting adults.

Same-sex marriage was discussed ad nauseam in 2014. The heated discussion was occasioned by the proposed constitutional referendum that the incumbent administration of Prime Minister Perry Christie plans to present to the Bahamian people. From a sociological standpoint, most Bahamians are conservative traditionalists.

Those who are clamouring for same-sex marriage are by-and-large university educated left-wing elitists, who are evidently in the minority. As is the case in America, these snobbish educated LGBTQ proponents are seeking to impose their secular values and viewpoints on the majority. And when they don’t get their way, they cry ‘‘discrimination’’ and ‘‘homophobia”.

LGBTQ proponents have even managed to get lexicologists to redefine marriage in their dictionaries as two people of the same sex as partners in a relationship. 

The late Christian apologist Dr Walter Martin aptly defined this as ‘‘terminological redefinition’’ in his magnum opus Kingdom of the Cults. One American author hit the nail squarely on the head when he opined that marriage between two people of the same-sex is an ontological and metaphysical impossibility.

Prior to 2000, same-sex marriage was never widely accepted by any culture. In fact, according to writer Joe Carter, of the 1,170 societies recorded in Murdock’s Ethnographic Atlas, marriage between one man and one woman is common in all, and polygamy is prevalent in 850.

In ancient Rome, same-sex marriage was practised to a limited degree among its pagan citizenry.

Not surprisingly, Nero had married two males. A freeman named Pythagoras, and a boy named Sporus. The latter was castrated by Nero before the wedding. Both marriages were written about unfavourably by pagan historians Tacitus and Suetonius.

All things considered, even by their pagan standards, most Romans did not accept same-sex marriage.

Same-sex marriage is a misnomer. It is an anomaly. It is a farce. It is a deviation from the universally accepted practise of heterosexual marriage – an institution that has been around for thousands of years.

The Bahamian people must stand up and protect this sacred institution that plays a vitally important role of preserving human society.  

KEVIN EVANS

Freeport,

Grand Bahama,

July 1, 2015