“Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide; in the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side. Some great choice, some great decision, offering each the bloom or blight; and the choice goes on forever, ’twixt that darkness and that light.”
So said James Lowell on December 11, 1845.
On May 13, 2008, Richie Spice put it this way: “I need a Gideon boot and a khaki suit to stand out inna Babylon and represent the trute; me no goin’ sit around and see bad things and keep me mouth ’pon mute.”
I thought that subject was behind. Apparently not. “Behind” is very much a subject of the day. And Babylon is moving in the heavy artillery.
Locally Sir Errol is back in the fray. And from Washington, DC, the assault will be coordinated by Charles Radcliffe (OHCHR), Victor Madrigal (IACHR) and Mark Bromley (CCCGE).
Don’t worry about those letters. They represent big-breed “human rights” organizations.
What happened was I got invited to a discussion on “LGBT issues” at the American Embassy last Wednesday. Those three will talk via video link-up from Washington while I and other local “opinion shapers” will fit in after.
“LGBT” is the homo thing. No, “B” doesn’t stand for what you think. It is “lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender”.
You remember Toussaint L’Ouverture? The black former slave who mashed up the armies of Europe? When it was all over the French invited him to come aboard a ship, safe conduct guaranteed, eat some food . . . .
There they clapped him in irons and took him to France to rot in jail. Them think Maggie Hoad last boy that foolish?
The flaw was in the invitation. It read: “The event will begin at 12 p.m. . . .”
You know when 12 p.m. is? Midnight? Midday? Not me, ’bo! Besides, I don’t do public speaking.
So let me write.
Some are born with homo inclinations. Many more today are being lured into what is being portrayed as a fashionable lifestyle.
Countries have the right to pass laws to protect the health of their citizens. Our seat belt law is one such. Our law against buggery is another.
They can also pass laws against behaviour considered repulsive to that society. Such as eating dogs. Or buggery.
No foreigner white people have the right to dictate to a sovereign country what laws it shall have in such matters.
Our laws have little or no effect on homosexual activity. Homos operate freely in the public domain. They are well known. Many openly flaunt their lifestyle. AIDS workers can access them freely.
They are not prosecuted.
However, repeal of the law against buggery will have two dangerous side effects. First, male homos are known to lure youths to bugger with promises of reward. When I was a boy at Vaucluse, a homo bragged of doing a youth for “12 cents and a heavy bread”. The boy fled under the bed only to be told: “If you want my money, you got to . . . .”
Another set turned up at a dance in this area some years ago and reaped a harvest handing out watches and bling. No doubt cellphones are the modern bait. Without the law, it will be open season on our youths.
Secondly, if the law is changed, male youths who are raped will have to contend with the usual defence ploy that they consented. It will be their word against their attacker or attackers.
Let’s not confuse law with stigma. Stigma in this case is revulsion against an act. It has nothing to do with whether that act is legal. The practice of law is legal yet lawyers carry a terrible stigma. You can find any number of lawyer jokes, 99 per cent of which imply unscrupulous dishonesty. “Caligula” Cameron launched the attack. A concerted local lobby followed. Now the United States supports invasion of our sovereignty. Coincidence?
The declared agenda of that discussion is: “the human rights of the LGBT community” and, more ominously, “what the State Department is doing regarding this issue”.
Bajans, put on your Gideon boots and khaki suits. Stand up or be bullied. Or worse.
Richard Hoad is a farmer and social commentator. Email [email protected]
