LGBT ‘pride parade’ scheduled for Saturday June 9, 2018 on St. Croix
FREDERIKSTED, St Croix, USVI— A furor raged on Virgin Islands social media circles on Tuesday, June 6, 2018, more specifically St. Croix, after it became widely known that a parade to celebrate Virgin Islanders in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community will be held on Saturday June 9, 2018, from the Frederiksted Pier to Dorsch Beach, where the first St. Croix “Rainbow Games” will also be held, according to the event’s organizers.
Being the first of its kind, talk raged throughout the community about what the event meant. On radio talk shows, callers blamed the LGBT community for spreading diseases; that “outsiders” were coming into the territory and bringing along their influences, and that with St. Croix being a “Christian” community, the parade should be called off.
But even as those opposed to the LGBT lifestyle and hence the parade, freely expressed their opinions, supporters of the LGBT community came out swinging as well, with multiple posts on social media criticizing the uproar over the parade as hysteria.
A long post on Facebook in defense of the planned event by Khnuma Simmonds Esannason, executive director at the VI Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault Council, received over 100 shares and over 200 favorable reactions. Mrs. Esannason’s 10-paragraph post went into detail and sought to dismantle notions that painted the L.G.B.T. community as the cause of the territory’s ills.
In her rebuttal missive, she wrote, “Accusation: ‘We (referring to St. Croix) are a Christian community’
“Correction: St. Croix is a ‘Christian Looking’ community not a ‘Christian Practicing Community’. If we were, the Christian Community would ‘raise hell’ about issues like domestic violence in the church, sexual assault and rape of wives (including pastor’s wives), child abuse – issues that plague our community damn near every minute. Until such time, St. Croix’s ‘Christian community’ is a facade and a hypocritical one at that. (And by the way, I go to church but I am not blinded or brainwashed; I see the world for what it is and because of that, I don’t adhere to any religious label. I am a child of God and I am content with that.)”
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Mentality the players of this game want us to have. they have a right to do as they please just like we blindly parade to celebrate emancipation all while still living under a NEO-COLONIAL system. Point is.. the world is made up of variations of people culture language etc.. that is what makes us who we are as spiritual beings having a human experience.. our vessels come in different shapes and sizes, our preferences differ for ‘GOD’S’ sake we have to RE-REMEMBER WHO WE ARE -we have to CO-EXIST.. that’s the only way we can move forward as a people.. but hey, with all the domestication we get from SOCIETY.. will we ever be able to reset our minds?
them no matter how they feel about straight people; you can't insult them or you're sued. you can't refuse to
bake a cake for them. but they can refuse to rent to or hire straights, and they can be totally prejudice and
hateful against those who have nothing against them at all. if they need lawyers, its on tap. including the aclu.
sure its terrible to be descriminated against and hated; but they do that too, and manipulate the lawyers and
government to do whatever they want. most don't know that.
SIMPLE: We ARE all sinners... and the wages that ALL of us as sinners receive are death!
So how you now saying: "any of us who are now saints were once sinners..."
So many challenges against homosexuality but none against all of the other sexual sins listed in the bible; sex before marriage, children born out of wedlock, fornication, divorcees remarriages, and etc., etc..
I dont expect any of you and your so-called religious gangs to march against any of the aforementioned, albeit biblically scripted because many of you have engaged and continue to engage in the activities listed above.
All sins listed in the Bible are of equal measure and is seen in the eyes of the creator as such. So when scripture is used as the guage for sexual lifestyle behaviours, let us always remember that gaydomness in all its forms, is not the sole infraction.
ALL sexual sins are of equal measure and we should ALL rise to the occasion to march against ALL such activities!
Who is WITHOUT sin, let him cast the first stone!
some dwell on this mythical hell,when they live in their own hell,you will catch more hell in this lifetime than the made up one,you wish for others