EDITOR, The Tribune.
Is Dame Joan Sawyer really serious?
What would she have said if a clearly less qualified male lawyer had been chosen over her to be President of the Court of Appeal?
Or if Parliament passed an Act providing that male judges of the Courts be paid more than female judges just because they are men?
Or if her pension was cut to only half of what male judges get because she is only a woman?
Or if she is told to shut up and let the men handle this?
OLD TIMER
Nassau,
April 26, 2016.
Comments
Well_mudda_take_sic 7 years, 12 months ago
Bahamians, like Dame Joan Sawyer, are much smarter than the above writer would like to think. Many of us may not have much education or fancy degrees after our names but we have a strong sense of right and wrong, a good sense of intuition and have learned to live by our wits. Dame Sawyer enjoys both these admirable qualities and a sound education. She knows well the amendment proposed by Bill#4 would prevent discrimination of any kind based on the word "sex" which means our parliamentarians would then be free to legislate same-sex marriages with the simple stroke of their pen. This is why the corrupt Christie led-PLP government and the detestable likes of Sean McWeeney, Rubie Nottage, Sharon Wilson, etc. have steadfastly refused to draft a proposed amendment that would unequivocally define "marriage" as the legal union through wedlock of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all other forms of union whether they be between man and man, woman and woman, man and sheep and woman and sheep. The Bahamas is not America; we have our own unique culture and identity and the vast majority of us Bahamians want our constitution to be amended in a way that would respect and protect the institution of marriage as we have known it for centuries. Most of us thankfully now know we need to do the right thing and vote a resounding "NO" on June 7th to all four of the proposed amendments given that each of them contains serious flaws of one kind or another that would prove most harmful to our society and way of life.
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