THE EDITOR, Sir:
I READ with interest your article in The Gleaner of Sunday, October 17, 2004. I am happy that you were able to spend three months, in may I say, 'a hostile environment' and thank God neither you nor your wife were harmed.
I notice that you are a medical and science correspondent and your assignment took you to the west, north and east of the island mainly in rural Jamaica. Why didn't your journey take you to the south of the island? That's a large area of the island to overlook in your data collection.
To me, it seems that your fact-finding mission was more on rural Jamaicans reaction to homosexuality than in your mentioned assignment.
Who told you that 10 per cent of Jamaicans are homosexuals? Kinsey fathered not only the sexual revolution, as Hugh Hefner and others have said, but the homosexual revolution as well. Harry Hay gave Kinsey that credit when Hay read in 1948 that Kinsey found "10 per cent" of the male population homosexual.
Following the successful path of the black civil rights movement, Hay, a longtime communist organiser, said 10 per cent was a political force which could be melded into a "sexual minority" only seeking "minority rights".
With Kinsey as the wind in his sails, Hay formed the Mattachine Society. But 26 per cent (1,400) of Kinsey's alleged 5,300 white male subjects were already 'sex offenders'.
As far as the data can be established, an additional 25 per cent were incarcerated prisoners; some numbers were big city 'pimps', 'holdup men', 'thieves'; roughly four per cent were male prostitutes as well as sundry other criminals and some hundreds of homosexual activists at various 'gay bars' and other haunts from coast to coast.
This group of social outcasts and deviants were then redefined by the Kinsey team as representing your average 'Joe College'.
With adequate press and university publicity, the people believed what they were told by our respectable scientists, that mass sexual perversion was common nationwide-so our sex education and our laws must be changed to reflect Kinsey's "reality".
Try as you may to ridicule our culture and the way we speak, the worst of us have a deep healthy fear of God because of His omnipotent, omniscience and all present power.
From childhood, we 'know' that homosexuality (lesbianism) is wrong. Is God wrong when he says we should repent and turn away from those unacceptable behaviours? The great majority of Jamaicans are aware that we are made in the image of God.
I will ask you sir, "Who dare you to want Jamaica to be a paradise for homosexuals?".
I am, etc.
RAY G. STENNETT
ray4rs2000@aol.com
PO Box 809
Larchmont, New York
