EDITOR, The Tribune.

If you think we have trouble with lack of morals and discipline in our schools now, any transgender education will lead to more confusion and more depression.

I am in the schools, both high school and primary schools, every day of the week helping our students embrace what the founders of our constitution built our Bahamas on, which is:

“The People of this Family of Islands recognising that the preservation of their Freedom will be guaranteed by a national commitment to Self-discipline, Industry, Loyalty, Unity and an abiding respect for Christian values and the Rule of Law.”

It is our duty and right as citizens of this Bahamas to teach these Christian values to our students, which do not include any transgender confusion as we know that God made man as one gender (male) and woman as the other gender (female). God is a lot smarter than we are.

I am well aware that, 50 years after the birth of our Bahama Land, there are those who think differently about having our country’s foundation being based on Christian values. However, those who orchestrated the birth of this nation were well aware of the importance of Christian values and principles which kept them and will keep future generations, hence the rationale for including it in our preamble to our Constitution. Many of us know and believe that Christian values and principles are what build a strong nation and they hold us together as a people.

To move away from our foundation at this time in our history would be a terrible mistake. We need to stay clear of any humanistic worldview, whether it is promoted by the UN or any other nation. Any country that moves away from a Judeo-Christian foundation for its laws and governance will fall. Don’t we all see the evidence of this in our current world?

We either have to stand for an abiding respect for Christian values or give in to the crumbling of society by following an anti-God agenda that is being plunged into moral decay.

As for me, I will stand with our founders and build my country on Christian values.

ANDY KNOWLES

Bahamas Olympic swimmer and coach

Nassau,

March 30, 2023.