#BTColumn – Questions – and a few answers

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By Dr. Veronica Evelyn

Sometimes, there are more questions than answers. Sometimes, the few answers are hard to swallow. Here are some questions. A few hard-to-swallow answers will follow.

1. What do personal and intrusive questions have to do with a ‘computer test’?

2. Why was this ‘test’ left in the hands of an international institution?

3. (a) If the Ministry of Education objected to some of the questions, why weren’t they left out? (b) How were they ‘inadvertently’ left in?

4. Why didn’t the Ministry of Education act responsibly and check to see that the offensive questions were omitted before the test was administered?

5. How will the ‘results’ of the ‘test’ be used?

6. Can an explanation and/or an apology erase the mind-manipulation intrinsic to the ‘test’ already administered to our precious children?

Here are a few answers.

1. (a) What happened on Monday, October 3rd, is no accident and cannot be dismissed as a one-off ‘unfortunate’ or ‘inadvertent’ happening. It is all part of a multi-national, sociopolitical campaign to promote ‘sexual rights’ philosophy globally, from all angles and at every level, especially from pre-school to university.

(b) Connect the dots. Check the September 15, 2020, Throne Speech (1.50.00 – 1.56.02). “Barbados does not … give itself loan funding… If we wish to be considered among the progressive nations of the world, Barbados cannot afford to lose its international leadership place and reputation, nor can a society as tolerant as ours allow itself to be blacklisted for human and civil rights abuses or discrimination on the matter of how we treat to human sexuality and relations.” Barbados is beholden to the ‘modern world’. The modern world has spoken on the matter of ‘sexual rights’, and it is assumed that Massa Mentality is superior. Some of the questions included in the ‘test’ on Monday were there because the ‘modern world’ demanded that they be there, and Barbados bowed, in an obedient and willing satellite position.

2. It was no secret that at the start of the new school year Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) would worm its way into our schools. On June 3, 2022, Family-Faith-Freedom, Barbados wrote a letter to ALL 30 Ministers of Government outlining the dangers of this radical form of sex education, and making recommendations, including the careful review of all materials, in any form, related to human sexuality or sex education, to children and youth, in or out of school. ONE Minister responded. That response was a mere acknowledgement. The other 29 did not even bother to acknowledge the correspondence.

3. The Government has already entrenched the ungodly, ideological and unscientific notion of ‘sexual orientation’ in the Charter of Barbados, 2021; in the Employment (Prevention of Discrimination) Act 2020 and in other laws and policies. This, thanks largely to the lobbying of a citizen who happened to be in a cross-cutting influential position as a member of the Cloth, member of the Senate and a member of the Republican Status Transition Advisory Committee. An acknowledgement of the term opens the floodgates and subjects the country to the ever-evolving demands of the sexual rights movement.

Family-Faith-Freedom, Barbados (FFFB) has held rallies, protest marches, press conferences and made press statements urging the Government to halt the country’s descent into the slippery slope of ‘sexual rights’. Indeed, in October 2020, in response to joint communication from the Muslim community and a large part of the Christian Community represented by FFFB, the Prime Minister, in writing, promised a meeting to discuss the matter of recognizing same sex civil unions. After two years, this meeting is still pending. Our government will listen to whom our Government wants to listen. People of faith do not pay the piper. People of faith cannot call the tune.

There is a proposed ‘partnership’ Agreement between the European Union and the African, Caribbean and Pacific States (EU-OACPS) that includes the mandatory teaching of a particular type of Comprehensive Sexuality Education. Once this agreement is signed, it will be binding for a period of 20 years. It will be instructive to see whether Barbados will sign this treaty in its quest to be considered among the progressive nations of the world.

Harmful ‘sexual rights’ demands are far reaching, often disguised in unsuspected forms, and riding piggy-back on legitimate issues (and computer tests?). They are incremental and come as a package deal. As a nation, we either take a bold stance for God and common sense, or we identify with the modern world and comply with the whole ‘sexual orientation’ ideology.

Once again, I call upon the Government of Barbados to take a firm, sensible stand like Ghana or Hungary for example. Our Prime Minister would do well to courageously adopt the attitude of the Gambian President who declared that his people had rather eat grass than sell their souls for economic gain: “If you want us to be ungodly for you to give us aid, take your aid away. We will survive.” (President Yahya Jammeh, April 20, 2012).

Dr Veronica Evelyn is a consultant sociologist and social commentator.