This letter is thankfully not so full of hate, bigotry, and misinformation as the last one that he co-signed with the church person, but why these overly religious types feel that they have the right to push their limited viewpoints and prejudges on every one else is beyond me. Please keep your bigotry to yourself or at least to your church members. Thank you.

AMEN!!! pardon the pun :)

His article made me an embarrassed Bahamian...shame on him.

@proudloudand fnm ...while you are free to express your own views to the dismay of many. Well that is quite undemocratic isn't it? What makes your opinion more valuable than his or anybody else's?

As much as I dislike reading your shallow, often irksome bloviations you have a right to do so and so does the writer of this article!

One or two seemingly sensible suggestions but the hands of the Bahamian economy rest in fiscal commonsense, hard work and minimizing corruption. Year after year month after month we hear the same old " God is the answer, God will sort things out " on and on ,yet if he exists his efforts fail at every turn.There is no logic to praising a higher entity that never ends misery, starvation, violence or crop failures as is shown in so many countries. I echo hrysippus and proud........ stop pushing this religious stuff onto the general public.

agreed.

Mr. Knowles is fully entitled to express his views and certainly poses no harm to anyone in doing so. Those alarmed by or fearful of his views likely suffer from a narrower perspective of life, possibly to the point of being unprincipled or uncivil, or even intolerant. But that's their problem.

Let's not forget too that the influence of the Communist Chinese Party (CCP) in the affairs of our government and public education system has the eradication of Christianity from our society as one of its key objectives. It's well known the CCP detests and despises our references to being a Christian nation and for good reason.

Make no mistake about it, the CCP sees Christianity as a very strong and powerful glue that holds most of the Bahamian people together in opposition to the dreadful way of life they seek to forcefully impose on us as part of their strategy to dominate as many nations as possible.

China seeks not to dominate as many nations, ...but seeks dominance of the world relayed in reputable media and in economic sphere is likely to dominate it in a few decades. It is difficult to see peaceful mmeshing of economies or two systems existing under one when looking at the Hong Kong situation and protestors, Taiwan, Tibet, Urghurs genocide and creating fixed land masses to establish dominance in South China Seas with disputed borders, disputes with Indian border etc. Local history and tragedy in dealing with Communists powers was the Bahamas Navy boat flying Bahamian flag in Bahamian territorial waters doing lawful duties and being gunned down by Communists Migs warplanes and wickedly and evil gunning down Bahamian sailers swimming for their lives in the water. Other Communists wicked saga was stockpiking missiles on Cuba just off our border bringing Bahamas and world to extreme dangerous position, Thanks God and our brothers and sisters and JFK in the US for saving our behinds. Forgotten, NEVER. !!!!

Why are so called Christians so hateful? Why can't they just accept the fact that people have the freedom to be who they are and believe what they wish? Noone is condemning their beliefs/faith. The Bahamas is not a safe place for many, and the mental health effects of this type of rhetoric is dangerous and sad. These self-righteous homophobic judgemental hypocritical and hateful people are the ones that fuel violence against those who have done you no harm! Whatever happened to 'let us not judge'...I think that this spiel of Andy Knowles makes one wonder if he is hiding his true self behind the gospel verses he spouts out. Hmmm

... in your diatribe you both contradict yourself and expose your hypocrisy. It seems you are unaware that there are different laws at work in our world. While you may not believe it, there is a natural, civil and spiritual context to our existence. Those who are Christians consider the spiritual context when you do not, creating a divergence of opinion!

People have a right to choose any course of action they want, but there are spiritual and natural consequences of those choices. Same sex relationships may have civil approval but violation of spiritual laws cause problems people do not have natural explanations for like addiction and mental illness etc. which plagues the LGBT community. Sexual activity is always by choice and therefore is not an immutable characteristic like race and should not be treated as such!

You call Christians hateful, but why can you not respect their views in the same way that you desire they would respect the views of others. You call for tolerance while being intolerant? Your views can easily perceived to be equally as hateful as those you seem to condemn. At the end of the day, God will judge, unless you presume to take His place!

Some shun their own family members! How in the world is this ok? How is it 'Christian'?
I'm so tired of the hypocrisy. There are so many people in the Bahamas doing one thing in public, but under cover they do something that is completely the opposite. This Christian hatred is so tiresome. The church also condemned inter-racial marriage back in the day and they were on the wrong side of history then too. Andy Knowles' personal opinion is his to have and live out. But Andy Knowles as SWIM COACH and BAHAMAS OLYMPIC FEDERATION is this type of bigoted outlook something appropriate for a person potentially coaching children/young adults? Is this proper representation since we are so concerned with the Bahamas name. Shame on Andy Knowles for using the Bahamas Olympic Fereration's name...does everyone on our Olympic federation feel like he does? He does not have the right to speak for any others...again remember - HE THAT DOTH PROTEST TOO MUCH....

And I guess you think it's entirely appropriate for children as young as three years of age to be taught by teachers in an 'educational' setting to question or doubt their sexual orientation. Suggest you stop behaving like the one yelping potcake in the pack hit by a large stone. After all, it can't just be all about you and how you see the world or want the world to be.

For the record...the IOC states that discrimination against LGBT people is at odds with Olympic Charter and Human Rights protection...wonder how the IOC would feel if they read his article..whatever happened to the "One Bahamas" movement? the one that 'strives to promote unity, loyalty, social harmony and friendship among every person residing in the Bahamas".???

... one day you will die and the IOC will not, in all probability have any input into your continued extracorporeal existence.

One with just a smidgen of wisdom and humility considers such things!