Dear Editor,
I refer to the letter by “Members of SASOD” (SN 12/12/07) captioned “Homo-phobia in the Caribbean has to change”, and would appreciate the opportunity to rebut. It is important to stress the following:
1. A preponderance of fact-based knowledge now exists to show that homosexuality is not a civil right. It is a civil wrong. We had cited Roger Magnuson’s careful legal proposition at 2.2 and 3.4 of the article “An Initial Critique of Guyana’s National Assessment” (www.guyanacaribbeanpolitics.com/national_assessment.pdf) in that regard. As usual, the issues cited therein remain unanswered by SASOD.
2. SASOD again refuses to address this evidence, but chooses rather to adopt the familiar but still inadequate treatment of the ad-hominem argument, citing UN and “human-rights” arguments that are misplaced and devoid of intellectual merit. We had cited in response the careful and decisive articulation of evidence in the “Homosexuality, Truth Be Told” law review series (http://www. regent.edu/acad/schlaw/academics/lawreview/articles/14_2editorsnote.PDF) compiled by the finest legal minds at Regent University, and should now do so again.
We had also addressed many of SASOD’s arguments before in 2006 in rebuttal to its reckless promotion of Vikran Seth’s “Open Letter”. The arguments still hold. A copy of that response is found online as “A Response to Vikram Seth’s Open Letter” at http://www.scribd.com/doc/419921/A-Response-to-Vikram-Seths-Open-Letter. This is required reading for policy makers. Mundy’s conclusion of that expos
