“...I have been in politics too long”

I think this may be the most honest thing I’ve heard Christie say.

I really wish my fellow Bahamians would care less about looks and more about actions.

You all are conveniently forgetting that the way a woman dresses does not protect her from perverts and the morally bankrupt. I don’t know how else to say it.

I was on a school bus with my fellow class mates in high school. All of us girls were wearing our school uniforms and one of the boys in the class took it upon himself to touch our behinds. All of our skirts were down to our knees or longer. Are frumpy school uniforms now to be considered “scantily clad” because some idiot adolescent boy felt compelled to feel us up on the bus?

@stillwaters - I see the photo. Does that mean that someone has a right to touch her? I understand that some people are more conservative that others. It’s merely a matter of personal taste.

@John - Just because there is crime in other countries doesn’t mean we give our country a free pass.

Wow! I am amazed that any religious person, never mind a higher up in the church, actually talking with sense. I just finished watching Harrison Thompson’s video on this topic and he made an excellent analogy about him wearing his chain. Just because wearing a chain may make you a target of robbery, doesn’t make it any less of a crime when someone actually snatches it. Do you also say of a robbery victim: “Well, they shouldn’t have been wearing a chain if they didn’t want to get robbed?”

I’ve heard the expression that it don’t matter if someone walking down Bay St. butt naked, that doesn’t give anyone the green light to touch them.

Also, how poorly do y’all think of men that they can’t contol themselves when they see a woman in a short skirt?

I really wish this article would have gone into more detail on what his alleged infractions were. I think that is very important that we don’t just listen to someone merely because they have the guise of the religion that we are.

Although I agree that parents need to actually parent and not just expect the teachers or the government to raise their children for them. No religion needed to say that.

Well written and thought out article. I agree completely. I know some people won’t be pleased about the content at all. And others will say that there are injustices men have to endure that aren’t being addressed (100% agree). However, this topic does need to be discussed. Desperately.

Thank you, Ms. Wallace!

“unless it agrees with the course of action we are taking, then the bible is the most important item and must be followed line for line”

Dawes - 100% Agree. And when you try to point out to religious fundamentalists that they’re picking and choosing which verses to keep and which to throw away, their opinion miraculously becomes the concrete word of god. But don’t tell them that!

Once again, ladies, be careful who you allow into your lives. If a man thinks it’s ok to forcefully take his wife against her will, and you’re not ok with that, think twice before you get mix up with him.

And yes, it goes both ways. Gentlemen, if a WOMAN thinks it’s ok to forcefully take her husband against HIS will, and you’re not ok with that, think twice before you get mix up with HER.

I agree we need to stop saying issues like sexual abuse, or marital abuse, or ANY kind of abuse is a gendered issue. All that does is alienate people who would otherwise agree that abuse and rape are huge problems in this country.