No to gay text

I am a concerned Jamaican who is currently studying in the United Kingdom. I am quite appalled at the events unfolding in the island at the time, particularly the issue concerning homosexuality and whether or not such a union must be portrayed as a legitimate family type in school publications.

Bearing in mind the intention of a family and its importance in society as a functional unit that can lead to the continuation of the species, personally I disagree with the notion of the intro-duction. Imagine if all members of society were gays? The human race would cease to continue. Our children need to be moulded to follow a functional lifestyle. Introducing this form of union in books can provide an illusion that the lifestyle is healthy for the continuation of us humans, but it's not.

- Wrenford, wrenthaffe1@yahoo.com, Atlantic College, Wales

Back to credibility

Allow me to commend Prime Minister Bruce Golding for carefully bringing back credibility to the Jamaican government that was taken away by weak governance augmented by corruption and biases.

Those unscrupulous decision factors let us Jamaicans down badly. We look like common criminals in the eyes of those who could not walk in our shoes. Thank God, we have people in the JLP who think, talk and walk Jamaican without any colour adjective to define us as some credible people coming out of a dark past with nothing but our brains and bare hands.

- Beresford A. Davidson, Davidson Infocus Systems, Marietta, GA

Trauma of incest

I read The Sunday Gleaner story, 'Incest leaves 15-y-o-girl with deep scars - molested by cousin for the past seven years'.

Surely, it is rather distressing to see the children suffer purely because of the attitude of their parents. Surely, if the children had trust and confidence in their parents they would be able to confide in them. I think that their parents are as guilty as their son is.

To regain the trust of their children, they need to counsel them and explain their regrets.

- R L Blackmore, stirlinjones@yahoo.co.uk, Birmingham, England,

Premature deaths

Too often the quest for money takes precedence over the life of a human being, as seen from the front-page story in yesterday's Gleaner about the death of the premature twins of a Jamaican mother in a Cayman Islands hospital because of lack of enough insurance or the inability to pay for the required services. The Attorney-General and the Ministry of Health should now be asking questions about the circumstances.

- Willis J Knight, ringtail46@yahoo.com, Venice, Florida