RECENT articles in the press illustrate efforts by a particular group to drum up a public presence in its advocacy for:
(1) The removal of existing statutes regarding cross-dressing;
(2) The decriminalization of homosexuality;
(3) The banning of corporal punishment (both judicially and in the home/school); and
(4) The removal of the death penalty. The point has consistently been made that a comprehensive body of secular and religious knowledge exists to show that the submissions by that group are duplicitous in nature, misleading, and shield an agenda that is ultimately injurious to the national good! As with other and similar submissions by others in recent years, the group’s submissions are anti-life, anti-society, anti-religious and anti-Christian in the extreme!

Christians cannot countenance any provisions militating against tenets mandated in/by the bible … and have on occasions dutifully and carefully illustrated the outstanding secular evidence supporting such tenets! This represents another such instance!

The activities of the “group” and their affiliates (Arif Bulkan, Michael Hackett etc) are summed up within the following articles:
1.         “Historic constitutional motion filed against cross-dressing law”
2.         “Death penalty ‘spectacular failure’ in crime fight”
3.         “Bill seeks to end whipping of juveniles”
4.         “Rights group clamours for corporal punishment consultation”
5.         “UPR responses will be made public: HPS”

In summary, the final three paragraphs of (5) above dated Friday 20th August 2010 outlines the intention of those committed to trample on time-honoured traditional secular, national and Christian values:

The christian perspective on many of these issues are a matter of voluminous record, and addressed in varying degrees in the online articles below. Moreover, they have on many occasions been communicated to the Minister of Human Services, the Attorney-General, the Guyana Bar Association and the local press … and are yet to be effectively challenged:

6.         “The case against cross-dressing or transgenderism in guyana”
7.         “What the people say about cross-dressing being an offence”
8.         “Surgical sex” by Dr. Paul Mchugh
9          “Transsexualism and the binary divide: determining sex using objective criteria”
10.        “Alissa Trotz: using and abusing Desmond Tutu in the cause of homosexuality and transgenderism”

11.        “The case for corporal punishment in Guyana ii” … submitted to Ministry of Education in 2007
12.        “Whipping of juveniles should not be taken off the statute books” … and comments following!
13.        “Top teacher wants corporal punishment reintroduced”
14.        “Statement rejecting efforts to ban corporal punishment in Guyana”

15.        “The case against pancap and the decriminalization of homosexuality”
16.        “How wise the decriminalization of homosexuality?”
17.        “How wise decriminalizing prostitution?”

18.        “Gay militant camp must be in a state of drunkenness”
19.        “It’s not easy to support a farce”
20.        “Western gender guerrillas are using what anthropology they could find to justify sodomy, etc’
21.        “Disappointed with Mexico’s supreme court ruling!”
22.        “Why isn’t homosexuality considered a disorder on the basis of its medical consequences?”
23.        “Child molestation and the homosexual movement” … law review
24.        “An initial assessment of the stamp-it-out consultation”
25.        “Religious groups denounce gay, lesbian film festival” … iro denunciation of June 28, 2010
26.        “Gay orthodoxy and academic heresy” … law review

27.        “Making the case for the death penalty” … in Singapore
28.        “The biblical case for the death penalty”
28.        “The bible is too often ignored”

In light of the group’s recent filing of a constitutional motion to remove legal prohibitions against cross-dressing, its current stated intention to lobby parliamentarians with a view to influencing government’s second submission for the upr … and by these actions thereby promulgate an environment even more hostile to good public policy and Christian/biblical tenets in Guyana.
I urge parliamentarians to consider the attached evidence carefully and to reject the submissions by SASOD outright!