Jamaica Coalition For A Healthy Society Obama Protest Fizzles In Mona

Members of the Jamaica Coalition for A Healthy Society and other groups were staging a protest in Mona at the intersection of Mona Road and Araila Drive. Due to the traffic changes and the security features to accommodate the bubble the President operates in when on state or working visits very little audience saw them in action hence a laughable exercise as said by some.

It had fizzled by the creation of this post thanks to reports and updates from a reader residing nearby. The head of the group Dr Wayne West was featured on a post I did on GJW: 
Perception of Jamaican LGBTQ lobby bullying continues April 2014, on his blog he continues his HIV is a gay disease ploy as a main feature of his advocacy as evidenced in his latest post: Blacks particularly at risk for HIV : White Liberals make 1st black president poster boy for LGBT “sexual rights” plus these from my archives.

Continued conflation between homosexuality, atheism, secularism and moral nihilism

Dr Wayne West’s continued intellectual dishonesty on fisting felching & chariot racing by homosexuals in Jamaica

Church's Priority Misplaced (Gleaner Letter)

Shame On Church - Clergyman Charges Christians to focus on real issues instead

and my posts on perceived LGBT bullying: The False Dichotomy of the religious right .................. and Scenes from anti gay Lovemarch at Heroes Circle

The protestors say they are mourning the loss of free speech under the Obama administration which is a blatant lie when under Obama more openness has come forth on many fronts. They believe that Christians have lost their freedom of religion especially on issues dealing the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community (LGBT). 

The group said the Obama administration appointed a special envoy to focus on the LGBT matters in February and this a sign that the goal is to champion those rights across the world.

The group came out at about 8:45 this morning handing out flyers showing among other things, scientific data about the dangers of men having sex with men continuing their HIV is a gay disease ploy as if heterosexuals do not also are at risk for infection due to unprotected sex and so on.

Members of group said they will remain at the location until about 12 pm.

What was the point of all this when noone is interested at this time in such rhetoric except those who are not forward thinking, following the heckling of the Prime Minister in New York prior to the visit came out swinging with a press release reinforcing old stigmatizing beliefs of bullying by gay activists and said it has noted an online letter to US President Barack Obama by various Lesbians, Gays, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) groups in that country urging him to advocate for rights of local members of that community during his meeting with Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller and Caricom Heads of Government this week.

In light of this, the JCHS said it is anticipating that the Government will uphold its reported commitment made at the Caricom Heads of Government meeting last July to seek the full and informed consent of the Jamaican people on such fundamental issues.

“We commend the Honourable Prime Minister for her recent bold stance in New York and urge her to maintain this position in her upcoming meetings,” the JCHS said, adding, “We urge her to continue defending the truth, that there are no reports of abuse by the Jamaican State against homosexuals, that MSMs have no impediments to access to health care, that Jamaica’s model for HIV/AIDS treatment is praised around the world.”

In a statement released to the media yesterday, chairman of JCHS Dr Wayne West said the coalition has also taken note of the recent US State Department’s appointment of its first-ever special envoy to advocate globally for the “sexual rights” of LGBT people. Jamaica and other Caricom nations, it said, have been named as countries to be targeted for the repeal of their buggery laws.

“The JCHS takes this opportunity to remind the Honourable Prime Minister of Jamaica and other Government officials that LGBT ‘sexual rights’ and lifestyles are not supported by the majority of Jamaicans,” the JCHS said.

This, it noted, was made clear in last September’s Bill Johnson poll as well as with the presence of over 40,000 Jamaicans attending the combined Jamaica CAUSE rallies in Kingston and Montego Bay last June and November.

“Additionally, 140 organisations from 11 Caricom territories representing hundreds of thousands of Caribbean nationals rejected attempts to change our laws through the PANCAP Declaration (June 2014).”

“The Caricom Heads then agreed to defer discussions on this declaration pending further national consultation,” the JCHS noted. The coalition said it denounces violence against all people, be it children or “such self-described LGBT persons” and affirms the inherent dignity of every human being.

“We make a clear distinction between the discrimination against persons and discrimination against behaviours that are high risk for HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs),” the group noted.

“Whilst we fully endorse programmes to eliminate discrimination against persons living with HIV/AIDS, we reject attempts to restrict or stigmatise social discrimination against unwholesome behaviours. We reject efforts to encourage or legitimise behaviours that are high risk for HIV/AIDS and other STDs.

Behaviours that are socially dysfunctional and have a demonstrably high statistical association with diseases cannot be endorsed,” the statement said.

The coalition said the group is calling on the Jamaican Government to protect every citizen by preserving the true fundamental rights and freedoms as currently enshrined in the constitution.

“We are horrified at the human rights abuses suffered by countless ordinary Americans – bakers, florists, firemen, pastors, parents, teachers, IT specialists, lawyers and navy chaplains among others – who have had their freedoms of conscience, speech, religious liberty and parental rights crushed all in the name of LGBT ‘rights’."

The hypocritical stance by the JCHS on their HIV is a gay disease campaign is disturbing and laughable in one as even in the very organization strong allegations suggest that some of its members are gay and bisexual and are virtually conflicted in their advocacy.

Sad instead of tolerance based on God centered principles we have theocracy at work.

also see:

Obama Hails Jamaican Lesbian Advocate's Work

President Obama told young leaders at the town hall meeting at UWI that we should care about the rights of every human being

"..........regardless of who they love"

while highlighting the difficulties Angeline Jackson experienced growing up as a lesbian in Jamaica and her work in ensuring that people get a better quality of life

"no matter their colour, class or sexual orientation can live in equality."

also see this letter: Healthy coalition nonsense! from the Jamaica Observer and Why The Obsession with Gays Shirley Richards?


Dr Shelly Ann Weeks on Homophobia - What are we afraid of?

Anti-LGBT discrimination and violence is unacceptable everywhere. This is US policy globally, as we discussed here in Jamaica today.
— Susan Rice (@AmbassadorRice) April 9, 2015

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