Dear Editor,
I was deeply saddened as I read last Wednesday's headlines about the gang-rape of a male jogger. Jamaica is indeed shaping up to be the modern-day Sodom & Gomorrah which, according to the account in scriptures, was destroyed with fire and brimstone because of their wickedness and unwillingness to repent.
I do hope that we will hear loud cries from the usual "defenders of human rights and justice", and those who trumpet for the freedom of choice and the freedom of expression for the "happy" people whose strident voices are being allowed to drown out those that fight to hold on to the shreds of morals and decency that we have left in this country.
I want Jamaica to know that the forces of evil are not in the business of playing — as a cat would play with a mouse. Their sole intent seems to maim, kill and destroy. Will we continue to collectively sigh and resign ourselves to these atrocities?
At a recent multi-denominational meeting of religious leaders, one reverend postured that, if Jamaicans would all "bawl out"— literal loud bawling — every time we lose one of our brothers or sisters to the gun or other crimes, the perpetrators of these atrocities would stop and think twice — even if just out of sheer fear of hearing the collective wailing across Jamaica. And, if we would take that a step further, and not only wail, but have the women and men who know these agents of evil also bawl out and expose them (irrespective of the consequences), then perhaps we could hope that what's left of the stink and decay of morals in Jamaica will be salvaged.
Let us pray more fervently and hit out against all attempts to make this so-called alternative lifestyle acceptable. It is wrong, it is evil, and we have only just begun to reap the wind from the whirlwind. May God help us.
Mishann C
mishannc@yahoo.com
We need 'divine intervention'
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I was deeply saddened as I read last Wednesday's headlines about the gang-rape of a male jogger. Jamaica is indeed shaping up to be the modern-day Sodom & Gomorrah which, according to the account in scriptures, was destroyed with fire and brimstone because of their wickedness and unwillingness to repent.
I do hope that we will hear loud cries from the usual "defenders of human rights and justice", and those who trumpet for the freedom of choice and the freedom of expression for the "happy" people whose strident voices are being allowed to drown out those that fight to hold on to the shreds of morals and decency that we have left in this country.
I want Jamaica to know that the forces of evil are not in the business of playing — as a cat would play with a mouse. Their sole intent seems to maim, kill and destroy. Will we continue to collectively sigh and resign ourselves to these atrocities?
At a recent multi-denominational meeting of religious leaders, one reverend postured that, if Jamaicans would all "bawl out"— literal loud bawling — every time we lose one of our brothers or sisters to the gun or other crimes, the perpetrators of these atrocities would stop and think twice — even if just out of sheer fear of hearing the collective wailing across Jamaica. And, if we would take that a step further, and not only wail, but have the women and men who know these agents of evil also bawl out and expose them (irrespective of the consequences), then perhaps we could hope that what's left of the stink and decay of morals in Jamaica will be salvaged.
Let us pray more fervently and hit out against all attempts to make this so-called alternative lifestyle acceptable. It is wrong, it is evil, and we have only just begun to reap the wind from the whirlwind. May God help us.
Mishann C
mishannc@yahoo.com
We need 'divine intervention'
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