Just for Jowelle

SUZANNE MILLS Sunday, May 3 2015

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How magnanimous of Pastor Winston Cuffie to acknowledge that non-heterosexuals have rights, as he waxed faux-lyrical on the decision by transsexual Jowelle de Souza to contest the seat of San Fernando West.

But. And there is a but. Rights to work, but not to run for office. Selective rights, rights selected by Cuffie.

One of his reasons for objecting to her candidacy: she would advance gay policies such as same sex unions when God had defined marriage as the joining of a man and a woman.

Well blow me down. I never knew God was a wedding planner. To my knowledge marriage is a creation of man, designed for political and economic objectives. Nowadays we speak of love but prior marriage was an arrangement, a contract. It still is.

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I am so glad that Jowelle is getting press. The Caribbean is horribly transphobic and homophobic. One can only hope that she burns the hate down to the ground.

h/t CAISO/GSPOTTT

Jowelle, a hero
ANDRE BAG00 Sunday, May 3 2015

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"Being transgender will inevitably affect her policies and with respect to moral and spiritual values they tend to lean towards the legalisation of non-heterosexual conduct, among them same-sex marriage," said pastor Winston Cuffie. Shocking. To think there could be a politician who might dare seek to effect true change, change which embraces one of our most vulnerable, marginalised groups. This is decadence, they said.


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