LBT needs to focus on the very genuine and serious concerns about the four proposed amendments to our constitution as expressed by some of the best minds in our country, e.g. the very valid concerns raised by Harvey Tynes QC about the 2nd proposed amendment. Each of the four proposed amendments is seriously flawed from a public policy standpoint and most Bahamians fortunately know this by intuition alone. LBT is deplaying much too shallow a depth of understanding in her desire to gain publicity by showing support for the amendments. All four proposed amendments are much less about equal rights for men and women and much more about automatically granting thousands and thousands of foreign men and their foreign children Bahamian status by virtue of marriage alone to a Bahamian.

I agree with LBT. We are supposed to be a Christian Nation and a "yes" to 1, in particular, goes to that.

..a mortician questioning the logic of a seasoned jurist.

One must question the seasoned jurist's logic in this regard. If the Dame had said that she had read the questions and bills and disagreed that would have been one thing that no one could fault her for. On the other hand declaring that the bills are a waste of time without even taking a few minutes to read them is the height of foolishness. If a student in reply to a question on a test wrote in response to a certain question that "I didn't read the question but it is a waste of time" and received points for that question and The Bahamian public found out about it, they would question the sense of the student and the teacher and would without a doubt say this is why we have a "D" average nationally. Yet, in present circumstances much of The Bahamian public seems to be in approval of similar behavior, because it suits their purposes. If that is the level of thinking in this country, well The Bahamas won't have much of a future.

**Think of this. If Dame Sawyer is correct,** then every person born outside The Bahamas to a Bahamian Woman, married to a foreigner, is entitled to their Bahamian Citizenship right away, just as like a Bahamian man married to a foreign woman.

Those born in The Bahamas to a foreign woman and a Bahamian man (unmarried) would be entitled to their Bahamian Citizenship right away just like those born to a Bahamian woman and a foreign man.

The Foreign Husbands of Bahamian women would be entitled to Bahamian citizenship just like the foreign women married to Bahamian men.

And that would be retroactive too. So all this would go back to 1973.

But Dame Sawyer is not correct.

For those who think she is correct, you don't have to worry, you don't need to vote.

Those of you who vote "no" may wish to consider, "what if she is correct?

What Ms. Jones is saying is that... it's the PLP holding another referendum.... the PLP has proved before that referendum's are a total waste of time and public treasury funds, in this case with the no and yes causes it's probably tripled. The PLP will do what they want when they want no matter who doesn't want it = it's a waste of time and money hence "NO to it all".

Look at Article 54 of the Constitution. This is not like the Numbers.

Government has to hold a Referendum.

you still can't force the PLP to do anything law or not

So y'all think it's too late for government to rethink the referendum? Obviously they have ran broadside into a stone wall. The mere face that the brightest and most learned minds in the country do not support the bills lessens the chance of them passing. The slogan "if you don't know, vote no .,"seems to be holding firm. And a defeat of the referendum is clearly a vote of no confidence in the government. Even the local gay community claims they are not supporting the bills

Read Article 54. Especially Article 54(b)' Article 54(d)(I) and Article 54(d)(ii).

**The Government cannot amend any of the Articles, affected by the Referendum, on its own.**

If the Dame was reading the papers, the questions are in every article in the paper. They repeat them constantly so I doubt this is true. She may not have thoroughly studied them is what I'm thinking. Nevertheless, I respect her opinion. She is entitled to have one.

#killthebills! #justvoteno!

Dame Sawyer never said that she did not read the questions!
She stated that she did not read the bills!

Precious few Bahamians have read the bills

Ask yourselves have you honestly read the bills or are you just going off flyers, speeches, press releases, and news articles.

Perhaps we all need to take a hint from Dame Sawyer

And ask for the bills in their entirety to be published online for public consumption.

Dame Joan is no lightweight .......... I am sure that she knows exactly what the PLP is trying to bring into law and she is not prepared to embarrass them beyond what she said ........ but she owes it to us (ordinary citizens) to ensure that what is being considered will not corrupt our nation any further ........ the educated liberal elite do not have a right to send us all down the path to Hell

It's a shame that this whole process has been tainted by ignorance, hysteria, and political shenanigans. This change is long overdue, and fairly straightforward, if Bahamians would make the effort to read something besides Facebook, Bahamas Press, and various other sordid and/or questionable 'sources'. READ the bills, which clearly outline the proposed changes - which are NOT being made in isolation, but relate to various other parts of our Constitution. These amendments are addressing a glaring oversight which our forefathers likely deliberately made as it relates to equality.

I think everyone realises that the PM and his cronies are not to be trusted on the best of occasions, especially not in light of the so-called gambling 'opinion poll'. But if you are at all familiar with this process, you will understand that unlike the previous deliberate charade, this referendum is BINDING, so whatever the outcome, we are compelled to adhere to it.

We truly live in a bizarro world in this little Bahamas. Everyone is so eager to sit back and savour the schadenfreude of watching each other crash and burn; never mind how it negatively impacts the entire country, or our global standing.

**....................................... What "bothers" me most is BLT period! .......................................**

I find it interesting that the **case Fred Smith used to show that gay marriage has been available in this country since the writing of the constitution, was argued by him before DAME SAWYER!!!** If anyone knows about the law surrounding bill 4, I'm sure it's Dame Sawyer