Misplaced criticism

Dear Editor,

Over the last few weeks, the Church has been lambasted as having "misplaced zeal" and being unfair and discriminatory in its recent focus on the buggery law. But curiously, why is it that no one has accused J-FLAG of having misplaced zeal?

The accusations made against the Church can only logically stem from ignorance of the consequences of the removal of the buggery law. It is not that the Church thinks that homosexual activity is the only sin, or the most important sin. The Church is simply aware of how the removal of the buggery law will eventually lead to its silencing of pro-family values on others matters of immorality and social ill.

As seen in the persecution of pro-family sects in England, Canada and parts of the US where the buggery law has already been removed, the fight to keep it is simply a fight to keep the door open for advocacy of healthy, responsible behaviour that serves the common good.

Both J-FLAG and the Church are employing strategies to advance their respective agendas: J-FLAG, that of hedonism/sexual anarchy, versus the church's desire for moral and social order. The only thing that is misplaced is the target of the public's criticism.

Onyka Thompson

The Love March Movement

Misplaced criticism

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