- Stand up for families, fight against greed,
selfishness, speakers urge
A section of the large crowd which gathered in Half-Way-Tree for the mass rally yesterday. See report on Page 4. (PHOTO: MICHAEL GORDON)
Kingston
Jamaica - POLICE last night estimated that around 25,000
Jamaicans turned out in their black, green and gold to support the Jamaica
CAUSE (Churches Action Uniting Society for Emancipation) mass rally in
Half-Way-Tree, St Andrew.
The rally called on Jamaicans to stand up for strong and
healthy families, righteousness and justice as well as to resist the homosexual
agenda and the repealing of the buggery act.
"I think this initiative is very good because it is
important that we have a voice, because a lot of different things have been
happening in Jamaica and we have to stand up," said Camille Morrison,
while adding that it not just goes against God's will but against humanity, and
in terms of homosexuality, biologically "di ting don't mek sense and as
such it should not be imposed upon people as if it is something right."
After a short praise and worship session, the chairman
of the rally, Alvin Bailey spoke to uniting every Jamaican, church, temple, and
other institutions.
"We will do all that is righteous and Godly to
accomplish the cause", said Bailey, highlighting that Jamaica is a society
that demands respect and recognition of sovereignty.
"Our emancipation means standing up for strong
families, our emancipation means standing against the homosexuality agenda,
emancipation for us means standing up against the repealing of the buggery
law," Bailey told the crowd, much to shouts of agreement.
Organisers said that there would be a series of talks
and prayers throughout the evening to make people aware of what is happening.
"The seeds of greed and selfishness have been sown
in the soil of corruption in public and private sector," said Rev Donald
Cole, in commenting on the state of the nation.
"As a people, we have compromised to crime,
violence, immorality, abuse of the weak and disrespect of authority. When young
people rape and kill each other we should take a serious look at what they're
watching and hearing," said Cole, insisting that the church has faced and
is still facing a challenge to be part of the solution in this crisis.
He said that the prophetic voice of the church is often
ignored or discarded, yet the church is often accused of negligence. Cole went
on to say that in more recent times there has been an attempt to deny and
refute Jamaica's laws and that if the symbols of the country such as the
National Anthem and National Pledge are acknowledged and honoured, then Jamaica
would be a social and economic model.
Cole said that the church will increase its prophetic
role and will not be silenced, especially when it ought to be speaking boldly.
"We are standing here today because we want to see
the moral thermometer of our nation rise again," Cole said, while
highlighting that the process of restoring the old boundary stones of right and
wrong, lawful and unlawful and good and evil, should begin.
"Jamaica's children belong to Jesus," rang out
the cry of advocate Betty-Ann Blaine, who invited the crowd to shout as she
took the stage. She also encouraged the audience to spend more time with their
children and go back to the book of Genesis.
"We not gonna mek dem mis-educate our children, we
not gonna mek dem misinform our children," shouted Blaine, who appealed to
the crowd to make sure that children go back to Sunday school.
Blaine said that there has been a 72 per cent increase
in buggery among children and as such "there is no way we changing the
buggery law".
"These folks not interested in people like me ...
me too old. Is the children them after," stated Blaine who revealed that
she went to a funeral of a nine-month-old baby who was buggered and then
killed.
She told the crowd that "we not teking that kind of
sex education to our children," and urged parents to ensure that their
child know that their body was the temple of God and that sex should stay until
they have a career and get married.
"The battle is about your child. Let us declare
again that Jamaican children belong to Jesus. We are going to fight, dem nuh
see me fight yet, we are going to fight for our children, they will not get our
children," Blaine said before exiting the stage.
A prayer by pastor Harry Walcott and a speech by
President of the Love March Movement Daniel Thomas were among the other items
on the programme.
CAUSE volunteers invited people to sign a petition
against the repealing of the buggery law which will be sent to the prime
minster.
Source: Jamaica Observer
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