More than one Bahamian on talk shows and in letters to the editor has asked the question… What's all the fuss about?
This nation has a world-class HIV rate and a Third World literacy rate.
Try as they might, police and government spokesmen have a hard time putting a smiley face on this year's homicide statistics, particularly in Nassau. They have an equally hard time rationalising the degradation of the offshore-banking and tourism industries.
The government, despite hearty assurances to the contrary, is flirting with fiscal disaster as it heads closer to the kind of debt ratios that make international ratings agencies and monetary bodies look askance.
Given just a few of these realities, what indeed is all the fuss about theoretical changes to marriage laws as they affect homosexuals in another country? Those changes haven't even been seriously proposed by anybody for The Bahamas.
So just why are they getting such huge amounts of attention from politicians, church leaders and other self-appointed arbiters of Bahamian morals? Could it be that some of those talkers and writers have got a bead on their motives and it's a lot of sound and fury to divert public attention from the very real and very horrendous problems facing this nation as it celebrates its 30th anniversary?
Editorial, The Nassau Guardian
