Iana Seales: Freedom to Discriminate?

Dear Editor,
An astonishing disregard for fact, truth, detail and evidence informs commentaries on this issue, and
Iana Seales' Freedom to Discriminate (SN 6/28/14) is no exception.

Her work, albeit couched in the wonderfully suggestive caption of "the freedom to discriminate" suffers
in that everything she says thereafter suggests that no such freedom exists.

Iana, as far as we know, holds no elected office, but could benefit from the advice of the very liberal
Michael Kirby KC. He offered that the very least that elected officials and legislators could do is to
familiarize themselves with the details of an issue before commenting on it. It is questionable that Iana
has exercised due diligence in this regard.

The fact is that we discriminate regarding things, persons and issues every day of our lives, and more so
where pathologies are involved. As any epidemiologist would confirm, the dangers of accommodating,
and interacting with, a pathology from an uninformed perspective has ... consequences. Ras Ashkar in
2008 ( "Those in support of homosexuality are more interested in their hedonistic agenda than in
individual freedom"; http://www.stabroeknews.com/2008/opinion/letters/05/27/those-in-support-of-
homosexuality-are-more-interested-in-their-hedonistic-agenda-than-in-individual-freedom/ ) pointed
out the potential consequences of having sasod use its use its website to "recruit" teenagers to the
"gay" lifestyle. In doing so, his letter to Stabroek News became one of the few letters that can only be
viewed via official logon.

The glaring deficiency in the arguments posed by the gay-advocate groups is that you cannot treat a
pathology from a "human rights" perspective.

Iana should have read Kathleen Melonakos' lucid article "Why isn't homosexuality considered a Disorder
on the Basis of Its Medical Consequences" ( http://www.lifesitenews.com/resources/why-isnt-
homosexuality-considered-a-disorder-on-the-basis-of-its-medical-co ) before writing her piece.

Irrespective of the positioning of her nose, Iana will find that bigotry begins where a disregard for fact,
truth, detail and evidence exists. Iana's OBVIOUS bigotry is therefore seen everywhere in her avoidance
of such fact, truth, detail and evidence. Ad nauseam, we can only refer her yet again to the article by Dr.
Charles Socarides captioned "Sexual Politics and Scientific Logic: The Issue of Homosexuality" (
http://www.kidhistory.org/homopolo.html ).

But will she have the courage to do this?

The trite and ... confusing ... phraseology and verbiage that follows the avoidance of fact, truth, detail
and evidence is evident everywhere in Iana's piece. How does one come up with "... This cannot be
understood except under the lens of inequality and deeply rooted prejudice..." after one has read the
law review "Child Molestation and the Homosexual Movement?" (
http://www.mega.nu:8080/ampp/baldwin_pedophilia_homosexuality.pdf )? Answer: one has not read
or researched ... anything!

For a definition of "minority", as distinct from "behaviour-based group" Iana should read
"Homosexuality is Not a Civil Right" by Robert Regier and Daniel Garcia
(http://www.crrange.com/wall34.html ).

Iana needs to be careful that her column does not degenerate into ... wilful bigotry! She should protect
her journalistic career by not selling it short on an altar of "gay rights". She should and must focus on
fact, truth, detail and evidence!

In the process of so doing, she will encounter true intolerance from those she considered friends while
writing this article, and may even lose her column, but will find that they were friends worth losing to
protect her journalistic integrity!
Yours faithfully
Roger Williams
June 28, 2014