Dear Editor,
I refer to Iana Seales’ column ‘The Right to Equality’ (SN, July 12).
We had offered last week that Iana Seales was going to struggle to find words since all that she parrots is opposite to fact, truth, detail and evidence, and we were not disappointed. She is now obviously reading and writing from a script prepared by Sasod.
Other than to again ask her, ad nauseam, to address and respond to the facts in the online article ‘Why Isn’t Homosexuality Considered a Disorder on the basis of Its Medical Consequences?’ we should progress to the more important implications of Ms Seales’ misrepresentations.
Why do Guyana’s Christians and law-abiding citizens generally have to oppose gay rights? The answer lies in the fact that homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexuality and transsexualism (constituting the ‘community’ that defines the LGBT movement) are the only psycho-sexual disorders or pathologies so diagnosed that see as their ends the destruction of key creation-structures – manhood, womanhood, sex, family, marriage.
How significant is this? Simply put, the existence/celebration of the one means the nullification of the other. It also proves a general rule. When a mental or psycho-sexual disorder is given the space to consider itself ‘normal,’ it will always, without exception, seek to impose its perceptions on society. Sound public policy obviously lies in advocating medical/psychiatric/spiritual treatment, healing, recovery, and the eradication of the LGBT pathologies considered by its victims as essential to their well-being.
The centrepiece of Ms Seales’s bumbling effort to deceive, however, will devolve to her desperate focus on a comment the Pope made some months ago. To place the context of Iana Seales’ interpretation of those comments and her perhaps uninformed/unintended misinformation and deception in perspective, Catholics in Guyana need look no further than the online article ‘Pope: Abortion, gay marriage among world’s greatest threats.’ Ms Seales, in effect, rails against the Pope, against Catholics, against common sense in this last insertion. She diminishes herself, scholarship and journalistic focus in the process.
In every case, Stabroek News gave her a lofty platform, the kind they would never offer to others not so predisposed. Ms Seales needs to be careful that her column does not degenerate into wilful bigotry. She should protect her journalistic career by not selling it short on an altar of gay rights. She should and must focus on fact, truth, detail and evidence.
In the process of so doing, she will encounter true intolerance from those she considered friends while writing this article, and may even lose her column, but she will find that they were friends worth losing to protect her journalistic integrity.
Yours faithfully,
Roger Williams
