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Immoral advertisements on our television stations
DEAR EDITOR,
Immoral advertisements on our television stations have been a mind blowing and perplexing phenomenon in our nation. The owners of our television stations will advertise anything as long they are given the right price to do so, even our newspapers will carry some very terrible advertisements including those of individuals who promise healing and miracles to foolish people.
Just recently I was looking at an advertisement that is promoting a dance-hall singer who will be coming to Guyana. In that advertisement, one can see virtually naked men and women and some scantily-clad folks gyrating to the most obscene lyrics of this singer’s songs. It will all be here for our Mashramani Celebrations.
In my opinion, Mashramani is no longer a cultural event; it’s loaded with sexual perversion, nudity and vulgarity, captivating most of our young people. If this event is not given proper regulation it will destroy the moral fabric of our young people. I believe this event should be banned completely.
In most of these musical advertisements, a nude woman is advertised, also men, and the music videos are worse: men and women can be seen having sex during these songs that damage the psyche of our young people. Our Ministries that are full of ministers sit by idly and say nothing about it. Evil gets past our eyes easily because good men and women and the churches sit by idly and say nothing about it.
If we don’t get rid of sin it will get rid of us. Doctors are fighting daily to cure sexually transmitted diseases including the AIDS epidemic, but we are promoting vulgar shows that will spread sexual perversion into our Nation by importing these foreign dancehall artistes. Guyanese have joined the list of vulgar performers. Some of these local Mash artistes just holler and scream all the time, with some nude women wining on the stage, and they are given big monetary rewards for this nonsense while we have thousands of vagrants and beggars in our streets we cannot help.
I wrote several letters before for us to ban these dancehall singers who come here to perform and promote violence against women, drug use, and murder, as well as obscene lyrics loaded with cuss words to degrade women. They are degrading the entire Caribbean and the world by the filth they produce. Not leaving out chutney singers and a host of others, promoting rum drinking in their songs. The effect of alcohol portrayals and advertising on the drinking behaviour of young people is a matter of much debate and concern. Studies have shown that young people aged 10 to 26 years old were exposed to alcohol drinking at a young age by music videos and alcohol advertisement.
Television advertisements, immoral songs and movies are a growing phenomenon that contributes to illiteracy and functional illiteracy. Most students travelling to school have something plugged into their ears from their phones – you will hardly see one or two in a bus reading a book.
Reading and writing among the young and old has become an obsolete exercise among folks. Even in the houses of worship, very few read their Bibles or any other book. Most people have an idea that dressing in brand name clothing and expensive jewellery, and driving a nice car, gives them much success, but a great education is a greater key to our success and development as a nation.
Most of the moral problems such as domestic violence, drug abuse, alcoholism come from illiteracy.
I conclude this discourse with this quote:
“Holiness is the strength of the soul. It comes by faith and through obedience to God’s laws and ordinances. God then purifies the heart by faith, and the heart becomes purged from that which is profane and unworthy. When holiness is achieved by conforming to God’s will, one knows intuitively that which is wrong and that which is right before the Lord. Holiness speaks when there is silence, encouraging that which is good or reproving that which is wrong.”
― James E. Faust
While our politicians are on a rat race for political power they should be on their knees to pray and seek the Will of The Father for Guyana.
Regards,
Rev. Dr. Gideon Cecil
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