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Let’s help our Devons

Dec 29, 2012 Letters

 

DEAR EDITOR,
In your Friday December 28 issue of Kaieteur News you carried a report captioned “Jealous Uncle Kills Male Lover, Drinks Poison”. This report related the tragic murder of 18-year-old Devon DaSilva of Sisters Village, East Bank Berbice, who was viciously stabbed to death the day before by 38-year-old Roy Lewis. During this brutal attack Devon’s girlfriend was also injured.
At age 38, Roy Lewis was old enough to have been the father of Devon. Rather than being an upright fatherly example to this young man, Lewis chose to cut him off from the land of the living, just because Devon chose to firmly walk away from an unhealthy homosexual relationship with him.
There are some in our land today who are strong proponents of the homosexual lifestyle. They do not regard it to be a sinful or a perverted lifestyle. They attempt to portray their lifestyle as normal and healthy, and insist that homosexual relationships are equivalent in every way to heterosexual relationships. They go around telling our young boys “Having sex with a man is just the same as having sex with a woman”. When our young boys, like determined Devon realize that this is the devil’s language and seek to quit they are pursued and molested, even knifed to death.
On 2012-07-17 a notice paper was served in our National Assembly by the Prime Minister and Minister of Parliamentary Affairs calling for “changes in the legislative provisions and criminal code regarding consensual adult same sex relationships and discrimination, perceived or real, against Lesbians, Gays, Bi-sexual, and Transgender persons”. This matter is presently before the Parliamentary Special Select Committee.
Young Devon perished and his attacker ingested poison. What do studies reveal in relation to psychological issues regarding homosexuals? A study in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence reveals that 90% of homosexuals surveyed had been recipients of one or more acts of verbal aggression, and 31% report one or more incidents of physical abuse. Archives of General Psychiatry (Ibid) found that homosexuals are at greater risk for overall mental health problems, and are 6.5 % more likely to attempt suicide.
In the Bible there are more than ten passages which clearly condemn homosexuality. No land was ever made the better by promoting homosexuality. Rather it has weakened the moral fabric and constituted an insult to our women, especially mothers. We call upon every God-fearing Guyanese to speak out against this scourge of homosexuality. Let us help our Devons, for they are our valuable human resource.
Dr. Sewnauth Punalall

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