As reported last week, the headmistress of Central High School, Ms. Kamlawattie Balroop, responded to her critics which such passion that, given the nature of her topic, one could have quite easily accused her of zealotry (SN:30/03/2017). What gave rise to her indignation was the largely negative public response to her decision to allow Pastor Steven Anderson of the fundamentalist Faithful Word Baptist Church to proselytize among her students.
Pastor Anderson is one of those radical fire and brimstone preachers to whom progressive thought is anathema and modernization would best be restricted to the material realm. Among other things, he has been known to call upon God to strike down President Obama for his views on abortion and homosexuality, preaches that the Hindu God is Satan, dictates that women should not speak in church and that homosexuals should be killed! His church has been
