IS RALPH RAMKARRAN OUT TO EMBARRASS THE PPP, OR ATTACK CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM?

Christians and Muslims can no longer stand on the fringes of the debate on same-sex activity Dear Editor, I refer to your article Ralph Ramkarran Calls for Decriminalizing of Samesex Lifestyles (SN 5/28/12) and would appreciate the opportunity to comment. An enduring hypocrisy ... and a confounding intellectual laziness ... accompany some of the pronouncements of persons who Guyanese would normally consider to be their "leaders". They ignore evidence, they insult scholarship, they parrot politically correct phrases ... and ignore the wishes, hopes and dreams of the majority of the population ... and in this case illustrate a naievete' and arrogance that seems aimed at nothing less than the embarrassment of President Ramotar's beleaguered government in Guyana. Ralph Ramkarran, obviously still smarting from his party's rejection of his Presidential ambitions, may just have outlived his usefulness to the PPP ... because his unfortunate pronouncement provides a rallying point for the considerable portion of the population opposed to the party he claims to represent. Ignorance may be bliss, but unfeigned intellectual laziness does have a price. We had alluded, years ago, that Guyana never ceded sovereignty to international organizations in any way. Then, the culprit was former Chief Justice Keith Massiah and the issue was corporal punishment. See the article Former Guyana Chief Justice Massiah has it all wrong on the Corporal Punishment issue (http://www.esnips.com/displayimage.php?album=166552&pid=1483631&uid=32607 ). The arguments still stand. Ramkarran has ignored the evidence offered against Keith Massiah, and in the process illustrates the same inattention to the fact, detail and evidence that informed the online response to the AFCs effort Statement Rejecting Efforts to Ban Corporal Punishment in Guyana( http://www.scribd.com/doc/36157244/Statement-Rejecting-Efforts-to-Ban-Corporal-Punishment-inGuyana ). On the same-sex decriminalization, Ramkarran willfully ignores the evidence in The Case Against Pancap and the Decriminalization of Homosexuality (http://www.scribd.com/doc/17685588/TheCase-Against-PANCAP-and-the-Decriminalization-of-Homosexuality ). He ignores the significant legal, medical, social and personal disruption that such measures will foist upon Guyana. On the dangers of Transsexualism and Crossdressing, he ignores the significant evidence offered in the online article The Case Against Crossdressing or Transgenderism in Guyana (http://www.scribd.com/doc/27698238/The-Case-Against-Cross-Dressing-or-Transgender-ism-inGuyana-UPDATED ). He turns a blind eye to the significant literature illustrating that untreated homosexuality and transgenderism has proven linkages to child molestation and gender confusion.

On corporal Punishment, he ignores the substantial evidence offered in The Case for Corporal Punishment in Guyana II (http://www.scribd.com/doc/17519228/The-Case-for-Corporal-PunishmentIn-Guyana-II ) and offers us . nothing but political gabble! On the Christian response, he ignores the factual evidence offered (as in hand-delivered) to ALL of Guyanas parliamentarians (including Ramkarran) in 2010 in the article Universal Periodic Review: Open Letter to Guyanas Parliamentarians September 2010 (http://www.scribd.com/doc/36893442/Universal-Periodic-Review-Open-Letter-to-Guyana-sParliamentarians-September-2010-UPDATED ). On the gay-advocacy deception, Ramkarran ignores the strong evidence offered in the online article Christopher Carrico, Collateral Damage, and Britain: Feeding the Beast of Deception on Gay Rights (http://www.scribd.com/doc/91148493/Christopher-Carrico-Collateral-Damage-and-Britain-Feedingthe-Beast-of-Deception-on-Gay-Rights ). On point of law, he ignores the ominous warning by his colleague in America, Antonin Scalia, who offers in his read/written dissent in Lawrence vs. Texas that the foolhardy march by his fellow jurists to be swayed by gay activism in spite of rational-basis review has consequences: ... This effectively decrees the end of all morals legislation. If, as the Court asserts, t he promotion of majoritarian sexual morality is not even a legitimate state interest, none of the abovementioned laws can survive rational-basis review.... In his haste to get back at Donald Ramotar and the PPP for rejecting his Presidential ambitions, Ramkarran adds insult to injury. He is supposed to be a lawyer, and still finds the time and space to parrot the phrase "as long as they don't cause harm to others". This is simplistic twaddle, and we have addressed the "victimless crime" and right to privacy delusions at page 26 of 45 in the inline article "The Case Against PANCAP and the Decriminalization of Homosexuality" (http://www.scribd.com/doc/17685588/The-Case-Against-PANCAP-and-the-Decriminalization-ofHomosexuality ). Ralph Ramkarran is on a mission but whether it is to embarrass the PPP government of Donald Ramotar, illustrate his profound ignorance of the social issues, or deal a body blow to Christianity is not yet clear. However conceptualized, Christians in Guyana can no longer afford to be inactive. The time may have come for the best among us to stand in homes, streets, parliament and elsewhere and fight with everything legally possible for the protection of our faith! Why now? Homosexuality and Transgenderism are the only two psycho-sexual/mental disorders so identified that set up as their ultimate and non-negotiable goal the destruction of core creation-structures in the Judeo-Christian and Guyanese ethos ... fact, truth, evidence, law, order, manhood, womanhood, sex, family, marriage ...! How significant is this?

One inescapable conclusion: Nothing less than the destruction of our faith is being contemplated here! How shall we therefore live and act in the face of these assaults? Roger Williams May 28, 2012