The Christian Council also strongly advocated that the concert be “aborted,” said the Council president Bishop Samuel Green.
In a letter addressed to Immigration Director Vernon Burrows on August 24, Bishop Green and a Public Interest Committee of The Bahamas Christian Council, outlined five key areas of concern. The letter was also sent to Prime Minister Perry Christie, Minister of Labour and Immigration, Vincent Peet and Acting Minister of Labour and Immigration, Shane Gibson.
Members of the Council’s Public Interest Committee include Bishop Ross Davis, Rev. Daniel Small, Rev. Dr. Delton Fernander and Overseer E. Randy Fraser.
Bishop Green said the timing of the concert will be detrimental to the opening of the school.
On Monday, a government source told The Tribune that the concert will go on as planned but the government is drafting “strict conditions” on the performance.
Said Bishop Green in the letter, headed, “The negative social impact on the community”;
“We have been trying to quell gang activity in our Bahamas for some time and this event will not help in this regard.”
Bishop Green said that as for the “negative moral impact”, the review of his material confirms taht he is a “pimp” and that he degrades women with lewd suggestions.
He said this will cause young men to regard women as property and not valued as human beings.
Source: The Tribune
