I always wonder where all the water went after the flood. Actually I wonder where it came from to create the flood.

Seems to me that we know rain water comes from evaporation of water on earth.

LOL, Religion is great comedy, until the religious start taking their views seriously and acting upon them; at which point somebody is always gonna suffer.

you must be on drugs to string that theory all together.

Gays have been around longer than western world governments.

Grow up and realize religion is just man made! An invention to control the simple.

What you are missing is the fact, as mentioned above, beliefs are not something of no consequence.

These religious leaders are the prime example of how one's beliefs manifest themselves into actions. The action, calling for laws to be changed to suppress the rights of a particular group.

Freedom of religion, was not intended to extend to the point of freedom of action. When one has extreme views, it's a problem And daily we here about problematic expression of religious views; sometimes measurable in body bags, and other times just basic persecution.

While I'm not going to actually advocate that we remove freedom of religion. But what I would suggest is that voicing one's religious views needs to have some limitations set. Clearly you can see from this article these "religious leaders" are spewing hate speech in the hopes of suppressing the rights of others, in a manner that could easily be likened to how the Nazi's acted.
It is very dangerous to let these "religious leaders" get away with this hate oriented dogma. Society needs to be protected from these types of people, especially because they are so called "leaders", albeit , and thankfully just of their religion or more precisely their church.
Notice, that these same people are the ones who want you threaten your children with the "be good or burn in hell forever" scenario, a story with no proof, but the threat could easily be considered child abuse. How is that any different than threatening to kill someone. But also notice, in the next breath, the religious leader will say, please put money on the plate, all the while thinking to himself "I need a new car/house etc".
These dogmas are dangerous, and not supportable by any facts.
As far as letting people think what they like, that is fine to a degree; but clearly one's beliefs manifest themselves in one's actions. In this case the backward thinking religious leader's beliefs have led him to spew hate speech in hopes of triggering actions that infringe on the rights and safety of the gay/lesbian people of the region. This is very dangerous activity, and should be followed with criminal charges.
So it seems , that free thought, in some cases can lead to very bad things.
Religion is just one of many dogmas that causes great pain and suffering in this world, and it's one that's easy to identify , and could, and likely should be banned.

When business owners starve their employees , and spend more on a bottle of wine, or a dinner than their employees earn in a week, that is greed.
When you starve your employees, and they can't save for retirement, just so you can increase profits that is greed.
When all, or nearly all rich business owners do this, it is called systemic greed, and that's what we have here.
No sense in trying to put a positive spin on it, no sense in trying to worry about the feelings of the offenders, they don't care.
It is what it is.

I would like to suggest an alternative:

Pass laws banning the practice of any religion, in every country in the world.

Here are some good reasons:

Religion is man mad, and has nothing to do with any god. If we came from Adam and Eve, and they had two children- Cain & Able, how did they reproduce...... so many lies in all the " good books"

Pastors and Preachers etc, quite often take the church money to buy big houses and fancy cars.

Religion is the cause of many wars and much violence. While its true their have been wars caused by the non religious, if we ban religion we can eventually grow out of religious wars and violence.

Many in the church are the most despicable people on this earth, take the Catholic church for instance, how many members have been caught up in paedophilia , the whole church including the pope supports transferring these criminals to other jurisdictions to avoid prosecution.

Christians burned " witches at the stake" for 500 years
Christians used to burry children in foundations and post holes to appease the weather gods.
Exodus verse 21 21 clearly states that you can beat your slaves (just another religious verse supporting slavery and the slaves torcher)

Need I go on? The church is last place on earth we will ever find the "moral high ground"!

Anything good that is done in the name of god, would be better done just because a person thought it should be. Do you really need God to tell you to help others, you'd be a better person if you help others because you believe you should, not needing "god" to tell you to.

Religions collect billions yearly, pay no taxes and for the most part, don't spend the money on people in need. What good is this? Ie the Catholic church is one of the richest institutions in the world. If there was a god, and one worthy of praying to, he'd never want any of these scumbag organizations who purport to do his work. Also, if a god created the earth, he'd easily create money for those in need......

I'm not a fan of, nor someone who can dislike someone because they're gay or lesbian. I can only like or dislike those who I've met. The few I've met are no worse than anyone else, and likely a lot better than the religious freak pastors and preachers who speak all these "good words" and meanwhile take all the church money for themselves..

I know, god works in mysterious ways- Lets stop this foolishness and move on with life.

Companies used to make contributions to employees pension funds (in the real world) anyways. These funds were invested along the way, and after your working years, one had a pension that paid out from retirement until death.

Listen to these greedy animals who balk at giving a year or two worth of retirement benefits.

Ask yourselves what good is any company, and why do we in society care if the company exists, much less makes a profit ; when the employees cant earn a decent living and dont have a properly funded retirement.

Seems to me this is nothing more than modern day slavery; slavery that no longer requires employers to use real chains, now, people are paid so little they cant leave/quit. Yet once you hit retirement , they kick you off the plantation.

Something in the air?

I laughed so hard i fell out of my chair.

Hey Wrinkle, do you really believe what you're suggesting?

Would you like us to believe that these bathroom units could be built better and cheaper here? Along with that notion, you must also expect us to believe that Baha Mar chose to spend more money for less.

Seems as though your philosophy is quite flawed. Perhaps you think that they were importing outhouses for bathrooms.

The Chinese are smarter than you think, and they don't like to waste money, so I'm sure the reasoning was well thought out and way above your pay grade.

And as for the government failing to protect our Bahamian jobs; it's always the same story, protect us, protect us etc. Let me tell you something, the best way to protect Bahamian jobs regardless of industry, is simply to provide the best possible product or service, on time, up to standard and, for the best value / price. We have been protected too much and for too long, and we can no longer compete.

Not to neglect other obvious problems such as our attitudes , poor education and low standards and poor work ethic etc

whether or not the government is concerned about the bettering of our lives is not the question; what are you doing to better your life?

If it were not for the tourists and the investors we'd be a completely failed nation.

I'm sure you're just like the rest of us, scared to go out at night. Maybe it's time you wake up and realize that we don't have all that much to be proud of these days. We have a lot of work to do, and it's going to be a long road trying to turn our society around in something respectable.