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“This goes to show that Jamaican women are better than Jamaican men.” I heard this comment as one of the final thoughts to TVJ’s coverage of the just concluded and hotly contested PNP presidential elections. Then I turned to the streets and I heard: “Give har a chance”, “She caan du no worst dan de man dem before har”, and my favorite, “A woman time now”.This got me thinking, and by now you all should know the consequences of this, over the past couple weeks all I have been hearing is the upside of a female lead administration and country. So what about the downside to being lead by a woman; are women better leaders than men?

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DJ Gallimore

Kemar Gallimore started performing professionally in 1998, a year after he was converted at a bible study. Gallimore, was convicted after realizing it would be futile ‘to gain the whole world and lose his soul’, and so he accepted Christ in his life. Living in ‘Rema’, in Trench Town Gallimore was greatly influenced by the Rastafarian movement, made strong in his community through the influence of Bob Marley. Today, Galimore is a bonafide Gospel sensation. This is Kemar’s Story on gospel reggae, homosexuality, the music business, his career and his ministry.

Most Christian masturbators expect to see a phrase, ‘thou shall not masturbate’ in the bible and because it is absent assume that God is pleased when they do it or that it is not sinful. But the reality of it is that the issue of masturbation is tied up in Christian morality. As long as Christians regard masturbation as sexually immoral, it will forever be sinful. Galatians chapter 5 verse 19 says, “The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery;”

The essence of Christianity is living by the Spirit. If Christians live by the spirit they will not gratify the desire of the sinful nature. I say confidently, with the support of Galatians that those who masturbate gratify the sinful nature of the flesh. Similarly are kissing, licking, and petting. Christians live and walk by the Spirit. Life in the Spirit acts against the expectation of life by the sinful nature. My claim is this:

1. That which is sexually immoral ought not to be done by the Christian who Walks by the Spirit
2. Masturbation Is a sexually immoral act for the Christian
3. Therefore, masturbation ought not to be done by the Christian.

The argument is biased toward the Christian faith and is done to reveal a truth that most Christians stray away from. The premises bounded by Galatians are indisputable and cannot be discounted. The word of God stands. This becomes an open declaration, then, that the word of God states implicitly that masturbation should not be done by the Christian if his or her will is to walk in the Spirit of the Lord. Let’s not go searching for bible personalities who ‘knew’ their wives or husbands and ‘knew themselves’. Let’s not cast our net on the wrong side of the boat. Let’s wait until that opportune time when the Spirit says, “Go, my good and faithful servant!” Masturbation is not for Christians.

Whats with this hypocrisy and front by our nation’s tertiary education institutes about distinction, I put it to our region’s thinkers that in so many instances what we offer in our tertiary programs fail to maximizes the potential of the student hence cheating our people.

It is said that the University of the West Indies used to be a place where critical thought was developed, students had their own convictions about the reality that faced them, and many refused to settle for what was hashed out to them by lecturers, politicians and so forth. Looking at the University now it is like a woman who has lost her youth’s lusture or worthless salt that has lost its savor.

There is often talk about all the Prime Ministers they use to produce, along with many world leaders; but who really cares? The UWI has seriously lost its aptitude to develop or propel large amounts of youths into leadership.

Today many ask, where is that Caribbean focus that should be stressed? Where is the rounded education and culture that should be offered. Check a UWI calender for its social activities, from Thursday to Saturday students are encouraged to fete and what worthwhile alternatives are offered to students who differ? -

I am responding to an article written by Damion in his Only for Thinkers column. It was a very well written piece, your reasoning of the issue was good, and the issue raise, undoubtedly is one that should concern us all- I want to implore Damion though to stay true to his mantra and be thinker before blindly jumping on bandwagons.

I must address the issue of the Church’s double standard though, as you put it. That while Jamaica became the murder capital the church was asleep, and now that the Charter of rights poses a threat to allow same-sex relations, there is great alarm. How is this, why the great out cry for one and not the other, if all sins are the same?

Crime and Violence sadly is a fixture of our society. Crime and Violence is also an abstract issue, it is not an end in itself, but the by-product of many failed sectors. Who decides whether the church is silent or not? If the church is not marching, on the front of the paper or on television do we automatically assume that they are silent? What are church leaders doing then every Saturday and Sunday when they preach at length against the ills of our society? The church in Jamaica is not now, nor has it ever been silent on the issue of violence- the issue is exhausted and so the church speaks out when there are significant problems.

It is undeniable that some church leaders in Jamaica have always been silent, and this is no attempt to give them ease. The church has a mandate to speak boldly against immorality and evil. Society cannot though require, as it seems you do, the church to jump an shout for every crime, after the church has already by its presence, message and purpose, makes a bold stance against murders, and like evils.

My friend, any church-goer in Jamaica will know that every Sunday, every Saturday, in open-air meetings, crusades or any opportunity that may arise the church

1. denounces the wicked depravity that exist in the world,
2. argues the truth that evil is inherent to human nature, and
3. offers ‘the remedy’ (Salvation through Jesus Christ) by which men can be saved. The church also caters for the growth and development of those who accept this ‘truth’ and offers guidance from a corruptible world.

The issue of Homosexuality, as was raised through the Charter of Rights is no small issue. The church preaches “sin is sin,” so we can understand that all sin is wrong before God, but after you have passed the elementary phase of Christianity you will understand why that “sin is no sin;” as the natural consequence of certain sins are greater. A lie and a murder are the same, in that they are both sin and if not repented for will bring judgment. While a lie may leave you broken hearted though, a murder will leave 10 children orphans and homeless vulnerable to abuse; it will leave another childless.

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The social and spiritual quagmire in which we have found ourselves in this nation, which has now manifested itself in a struggle between Christians and Homosexuals over future rights and freedoms, has only cemented more the fact of how necessary it is for Christians to have a strong-prolonged interest in politics. See, they may separate the church from the state, but we should never allow them to remove God from our Government.

“Fire BUNN FI CHI-CHI MAN!!!- Because the bible says…”

How often does this line echo across Jamaica? How often is this used as justification for hate, murder, malice and antagonism towards a group of people who the Bible also says, we are all just as sinful as.

“All have sinned and come short of the glory of God,” and in the first verse of Romans 2 after Paul just describing the repugnance, disgust and anger of God towards sins like homosexuality, he argued that ‘none of us has right to condemn anyone, for at that moment we are condemning ourselves who are just as wicked and sinful.