Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s oft quoted: "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice" comes to mind after reading many of the aforementioned comments. It appears as though homophobia is clouding our sense of moral justice for our Bahamian daughters.
As a previous letter-writer implies: if our wish is to support equality for our girls and women then voting on these issues are simple, we need not claim to see "ghosts" that are not there. It was unfortunate that the framers of our constitution enacted sexual discriminatory laws in our original constitution, deliberate or not. That was another era, almost two generations ago. We have the opportunity to correct this injustice and I implore my fellow Bahamians to please do so.
About question #4 this is not about Same Sex Marriage, and those arguing that it is, most of whom are intellectually and politically savvy, know that it is not. In generations to come if Bahamians want to change the Constitution to allow Same Sex Marriage at some future date they will have to add those sentences directly into the Constitution. Our changes this year will not be helpful to them.
I am hopeful our journalists will begin to ask substantive questions thus setting the tone for serious discussions, not about an MP's political future (whether he votes in-line with his Party), but whether his stance has moral, intellectual or practical merit to our people.
Let's stick to the issues and hopefully our next citizenship referendum will be addressing an even more, practically important topic: that of elimination of the chance of citizenship to children born to illegal immigrants!