Each person must choose their source of morality (views of right and wrong). Those who believe in the bible (or other religions writings) as a basis for morality believe the wisdom in it comes from God (or their god) and the rules are beneficial encouraging a duty to God, family and their fellowman. Those who create a morality based on their feelings, opinions and other ideas or philosophies can constantly shift that morality to suit their purposes. This promotes instability in societies and the human psyche. One need only look at the Bahamas 40 years ago or more when we had a predominantly biblical morality and the Bahamas now with more liberal views. Where this country is now IS NOT progress, by any standard. But, to each his own!

I just wish Bahamians could take pride in being hard working, honest and faithful in their relationships. That would go a long way to turning things around!

@ proudloudfnm Did you even bother to read and UNDERSTAND the **first** sentence???

... the beauty of this thing is that we are all just a few short breaths away from learning the ultimate truth for our selves. Death awaits us all. Until then....

Exodus 21:20-21

20 “Anyone who beats their male or female slave with a rod must be punished if the slave dies as a direct result, 21 but they are not to be punished if the slave recovers after a day or two, since the slave is their property.

Joeblow, drop by later, I gots some chains u can wear and some yard work you can do. No pay, and you will be my property from now on, but don’t worry, it’s gods will.
And, therefore moral !

... context is everything @Chucky and it requires having an overarching understanding of cultural context before cherry picking verses!

Cultural understanding is very clear. That was the Christian culture for centuries.
Thankfully Christian views are consistently being proven wrong and while the evolution of their dogma is slow, it continues.
Morals are clearly better establish via thought , discussion using reason and evidence.
The world will be a better place once the dogmas are eradicated. However that doesn’t mean that all new “ideas” will be good. But surely better than what we have put up with from the “good books”.

... hence highly moral cities like San Francisco!

Chicago and their 1,000 churches comes to mind. Religion sure ain't helping them be calm - just like it ain't helping us.

No Different than Government pumping up xenophobia against Haitians.
We are too fast to buy into poorly formed Political "policies" hoping to overcome Bad long standing Government Policies.
The Government professes to be the solution to all that ails us, when in fact they are the root of all our problems.
The pre-requisite for those who would govern should be preclusion from Running for election!

What is wrong with the church opposing anything? The church has a right to oppose just as much as Demarco has a right to voice an opinion, period. Next, Demarco will want people opposed to the opinion jailed for HATE opinion, just ridiculous! Demarco , say what you have to say to support your group, that is your right to freedom of speech. The church also has a right to say what it has to say, period.

Churches / religions that choose to inject themselves into local politics by outrightly supporting one group of politicans over another, or one political party or political movement over another should have all of their tax exemptions withdrawn / removed, i.e they should be required to pay business license fees, real property tax, etc., etc. without exception.

The people who run the church are hypocrites. The bible says many things that you should and should not do. To these people gays are the only one to take note of. They don't care about all the sweethearting in the country, about all the illegitimate children being born, even though these are all items you are told not to do in the bible, and these are the things that have led to many of our social ills.. All they are currently doing is losing more and more people from their churches. Sure the older generation still turn up all the time, but the younger ones are turning up less and less, and its mainly because of these types of hypocritcal stances.

... valid points, but hypocrisy is not found exclusively in the church, but is a HUMAN condition that has to do with character. In fact name one place in this country or anywhere in the world where hypocrisy is NOT found!

Yes hypocrisy is found everywhere. But most hypocrites do not demand we do stuff because the bible says so, whilst ignoring those items in the bible which tell us not to do stuff we do. If the church wants us to all live according to the bible then they should demand its according to the whole bible and not cherry pick (unless i missed the part in Sunday school where it says you are allowed to cherry pick)

Wrong.Churches in Carribean are full of young people and Bahamas are one of the most religious nations in the world.The fastest growing religion in Sub-Saharan Africa, Carribean (Haiti, Dominican Republic, Jamaica etc), Central America (Guatemala,Honduras,Guyana, Souriname etc) and Bahamas is PENTECOSTALISM.Look the religion map of Africa here: https://pt.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficheir…

***Name: Demarco. Gender: Male. Usage: Demarco, of african origin, is a popular first name. It is more often used as a boy (male) name. People having the name Demarco are in general originating from South Africa, United Kingdom, United States of America. Variants: For another variant of the name Demarco across the world, see Marco.***

The BCC is encouraging violence in general between bahamians with this weak ars statement

gluttony is one of the 7 deadly sins. I would if the people of Sodom and Gomorrah was obese?

Me dear comrade red shirt bloggers will storm up Bay Street's flag poll on the day they raise
**Rainbow flag** to commence the **Haitian Pride Day** parade, yes, no ....