It totally agree with you! But the gay issue is hear the loudest because of our homophobic nature and intolerance. Back to the other issues you mentioned: Yes, our governmennt has been quite corrupt since the independence. How do we tackle our crime issues? First, we must alter our way of thinking first, starting with our leaders we voted for and also the voters. When we have properly been educated on how should someone should choose how they go about casting then we can move onto the next step. The next step is accountability: this is the accountability for ourselves, and the accountability of our leaders. Let's sweep in front of our doors first before commenting on how dirty the neighbor's own is. After ours are swept lets not hold a gun to the neighbor's head for him to clean but encourage him to clean, if he does not know show him, after our community is clean then we move onto the other communities by holding our family members who don't live within the same barrier. After, we hold the leaders accountable, because we have done everything needed that they have no excuse to carry out their tasks. Let's get out that mindset where we call our MPs when we are trouble to get our sons and daughters out of jail for a crime, they 9 times out of 10 actually committed. Lets get out of that mindset for I voted for you , now you owe me. Lets get out the mindset that the government must do everything for us and we not our own. Lets educated our children and our brothers children the importance of responsibility and an education along with diversification. Then crime may be a minimal or a thing of the past.

In regards to Fred Mitchell and Myles Munroe. Both men have an agenda. Both have an opinion. Foreign Affairs are directly apart of International Relations. I am a International Relations major. As a Minister of Foreign Affairs, it is apart of his job forte to speak on the issue of human rights. Gay rights is apart of that. The Bahamas is a tourism based economy. Tourism is our product. If we are going to sell this, we need to be more open to the notion that there are some views we may not completely share with the rest of the learned world. We should not discriminate against someone's else view because it goes against our mold. Our brothers, sisters, sons, daughters, aunts, uncles, mothers and daughters, and cousins; someone directly linked to our lives are gay; whether closeted or not. We should not hate our own or say they need to keep their lives hidden. A famous phrase used is whatever happens in the dark comes to light. So if it is going to end up in the open anyway why should we suppress our family's free right. So if the Minister is gay. Whether its Fred or Myles. Cause we all know those who always scream the loudest are the ones who are guilty. If you are not interested in someone of the same sex then that is your choice, and no one forced you to that choice. So if a someone's is attracted to someone of the same sex, what has that to do with you., nothing. Has the Bahamas turned into a nation of selfish people where we are stuck into a one track mind because our lack of education. Which side will you be on, the right or the wrong side, only time will tell, or it may never say?

It's funny have an inherent right of a person's free will has always been a soar point for people whose human right has been violated for over 400 years. Any human rights issue should not be debated on; as this is the freedom of someone. If the will of the majority dictated what should be expected as law or the 'norm". All of we and you Bahamians would be speaking German, enthroned back into slavery where your skin colour would be acceptable as a criterium of your worthlessness; or probably dead through ethnic cleansing. In regards to the funeral issue: the funeral was for a lady who happened to be a lesbian, that lived her life as one, that dressed as what is socially accepted as masculine. If you were there and were too busy gawking at the homosexuals, you were there for the wrong reasons. If you felt like the gays/lesbians would have been disturbing to you, you should not have went in the first place, and remained under your drawbridge. You don't not go to KFC expecting them to sell lobster or fish and not chicken, when in its long form its directly says chicken. Hence, don't go to a lesbian or gay's funeral and don't expect to see homosexuals there.