Group to stage another protest rally

The Watch Out My Children organisation will be holding another education rally against transgender agenda setting and certain aspects of the proposed Child Rights Protection Bill and School Nutrition Policy, this time with the support of American psychologist, activist, and Pan-African Dr Umar Johnson.

One of the organisers, Dr Marcia Weekes said that a number of regional activists and motivational speakers, also including businessman and Bahamas Democratic Movement leader Cassius Stuart, will be addressing the crowd at the July 8 event.

Speaking during a virtual press conference on Thursday, she explained that the purpose of the event was multi-pronged.

“We are organising an educational rally to raise public awareness and educate the Barbadian public on the negative effects of the growing international trend to include transgender education in school curricular across the globe; the promotion of sexual orientation ideology to young children; the dangers within the proposed Child Protection Bill of Barbados and sections of the School Nutrition Policy, and the possible negative societal and cultural consequences if this bill and policy in their present form are adopted; and the critical need for clear boundaries between the rights of the state and the rights of parents regarding our children,” she said.

Stuart added that it was important for people across the region to stand united on these issues, adding that if one country was experiencing an issue the others had to show support.

“What we need in the Caribbean region is something called critical mass. We need the people to stand up and say ‘no’. The governments are being controlled by the international community; whether it be the United Nations, World Health Organisation, International Monetary Fund or the International Development Bank, these organisations are all in one accord with their agenda. The agenda is to somehow normalise pediaophelia and normalise the issues dealing with transgender.

“However, if the people who value the traditional family don’t stand up, if we are quiet, then they take it as an invitation that everything is okay. But if we give them resistance, if we stand up in Barbados, in Trinidad, St Lucia, Grenada, Bahamas, and say ‘no, we are not for it’, then the governments will back down,” he asserted.

“Politicians only respond to numbers and if we don’t show the numbers, that we have critical mass and show our support, then the government will take that as an invitation and they will move forward with their agenda. As a region, we have to speak with one voice.”

Stuart added that he was also concerned that Barbadians were not speaking up as they should, even though they may not be in agreement with what was going on.

“It seems as if the people in the Caribbean are afraid to speak up and we want to encourage Bajans to begin to speak out against this agenda because it is affecting the future generations of your country,” he said.

Trained nurse and social advocate Michele Edwards said Barbados had to rethink its sources of financial assistance.

“They have gone to the wrong sources. I believe that we [should] join forces with like-minded people in Africa. The leaders in Africa have said ‘no’ to these agendas. I think that if we align ourselves with those who are like-minded, we will get numbers, we will have the critical mass. The world has a United States and a United Kingdom and we need to be a united Caribbean and when we unite and go to the continent of Africa, they can’t deal with that,” she said.

Meanwhile, Weekes said the Watch Out My Children organisation will continue to stage rallies for as long as necessary.

She said next week’s rally would also be an opportunity to disseminate a book titled No Dress For Timmy, which was written by Vincentian author Shefflorn Ballantyne but banned on Amazon.

The rally is to be held at the Bay Street Esplanade from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

This will be the organisation’s third rally.

(SZB)