Legislator in Suriname sparks debate with anti-gay remarks

Asabina. Photo: Caribbean News Network

A member of Suriname’s coalition administration Ronny Asabina, has called on the government of President Desi Bouterse to state its position regarding the legalization of gay marriages.

Ronny Asabina’s remarks came after Social Affairs and Housing Minister Alice Amafo said that the government is implementing policies to create “strong and healthy families”.

“How could this goal be achieved in a situation where gay couples are adopting and raising our children”, Asabina from the BEP-faction said, describing homosexuality as a “disease and a mental disorder.”

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12 Comments

  1. Educated
    September 6, 2011

    Clearly the solution is not to end the gays, it’s to kill all the straight people that keep having gay children! :-P

  2. Concerned Citizen
    July 14, 2011

    The interpretation of scripture requires divine intervention, knowledge and understanding which comes from God. (Seek and you shall find) Pluralism is dangerous to society.. Culture, everyone is doing it, Tradition, it feels right, reason, it feels logical, emotion it feels right. All those reasons are flawed. How are we going to determine what is right in society if we do not have standards that every man should follow? How are we going to know when we step on the toes of our brothers? what is right what is wrong? Pluralism leads to a society of chaos where everyone will just do what is right to him. Its time then that our laws be dropped also.. let every man make his own laws. Its just a sad state our world has become and to make it more interesting we are supposed to be more educated

  3. caribbeangenius
    July 14, 2011

    I am not religious, and i believe the bible is all historical stories and fairytale. But i do know in the natural order of things, and every living species fighting for survival gay is totally wrong. I wont discriminate and victimize them, but nonetheless its wrong. Nothing can make it right dont matter how western cultures try to make it seem natural

  4. Humanist
    July 14, 2011

    Once more, religion poisoning things, as Christopher Hitchens said in his great book on the subject (which you should look up instead of attacking my post). Instead of getting to know people who are different, this guy was indoctrinated by his parents or influential persons around him when young, rather than giving him the opportunity to view the variety of ideas and philosophies and worldviews out there. And now he is unable to see the world in any other way, which is a failure of education. This is not about “liking” what gay people do. Hell, I don’t “like” the idea of male gay sex myself. But that does not mean they are not human beings like you and me, and if this fool had taken the time to make some gay friends or at least try to get to know some, he would realize that. And had he done research on the history of the planet and universe, he could never seriously believe that an ancient book’s hatred of gay people is correct. That is a failure of education.

    Then, there are those who say, oh, the bad parts in the bible are “metaphors” or not literal, like when you are told to stone people and cattle to death. By this logic, I find it extraordinary that no one therefore believes the passages about homosexuality are similarly “metaphorical.” Either way, they are barbaric–no civilized society can live under such laws. We must love and respect each other unless we see true wickedness, and homosexuality is not wickedness (unlike pedophilia, which obviously is, because children cannot consent to sexual intercourse).

    In the decades to come, we may come to learn all this, or we may continue spiraling into nowhere, knowing nothing but the bible and assuming that there is nothing else to know. Had certain great men and women believed THAT, you certainly would not have the technology today on which you can type comments in website’s comment boxes.

    • Caribbean woman
      July 14, 2011

      If you do not want to believe in the bible no one can make you, but one thing human ideas and philosophies is what kills the morality of human being today. It is wrong, that two person of the same sex or even of different species (bestiality) including having sex via anus, or liking anus, putting penis in mouth that is not what the sex was design for. That is the reason today we have multiple incurable diseases that we give a blind eye to what is the real causes of such infections and germs/bacteria. Then to make things worse, group sex again. No wonder Jesus is coming soon, man have perverted everything. Sex was only designed to multiply our human species and with one partner. But today, the head (government) is immoral so it goes down to the feet who has been infected with the immorality. Our excuses, the bible is a fairy tall, story book. Keep on, with your idea’s my dear… Hope when you face the creator you on the same song!!

  5. July 14, 2011

    As it was in the begining so shall it be in the end. One Man to one Woman. Same sex Cannot Procreate, hence the end of mankind.

    • Lavie Dominique
      July 14, 2011

      is anyone suggesting that all mankind should be same sex couples? Don’t think so! Then and only if this was the case we would have an end to procreation! Those are are heterosexuals can go ahead with the procreation of the earth, and those who are not just will not take part in it! Jut like the men and women who CANNOT procreate not because they are homosexuals,God made them too, and he didn’t expect them to take part in the procreation!!!
      Then there are the Eunuchs:

      For some are eunuchs because they were born that way; others were made that way by men; and others have renounced marriage because of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it.”Matthew 19:12

      Did God know or planned that not all man and woman would take part in the procreation of the Earth? Please of you bible quoting people explain this!!! Thank you!

      • Lavie Dominique
        July 14, 2011

        And while they are at it, explain this one to!!

        Revelation 14:4 These are those who did not defile themselves with women, for they kept themselves pure. They follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They were purchased from among men and offered as firstfruits to God and the Lamb.

  6. ......
    July 14, 2011

    keep this filth out of our society please.

    I know that our kids don’t learn such in HFLE classes.

    Please kiddies, when you guys grow old, don’t depart from what was taught in HFLE classes.

    Every little boy or girl deserves a mommy and a daddy. this is and will always be the base of a family…

    • Kristoff
      July 14, 2011

      What happens when there mummy and or daddy starts abusing them sexually?? touching them in all the ways they not suppose to?? hope u will be able to explain to them whats going on… stop being a hypocrite.. face the fact, there are persons of different sexual orientation in the world. the world isn’t black and white anymore.. there is colors, taste the rainbow!!!!

      • YAA.....
        July 14, 2011

        well kristoff…. we already have enough stuff to worry about… we need to be thinking bout how to clean up rather than adding more….

    • Alexander Harrington
      July 14, 2011

      Then tell me why some of you women abort so many children when there are women who so desperately wants to be a mother and cannot have a child. and to the men who tells women to get rid of it, especially when he is married or she is married and having extramarital affairs…

      What about the women who up and go leaving the child with any and everybody never to turn back. what about the so called fathers who never support or take care of a child, what about those children that are abused by family members: mentally, physically, emotionally and sexually.

      What about those children that screaming for their mother and fathers attention,love and affection and end up in the psychiatric ward or on the streets. there are gay men and women who do a much better job raising other peoples children and even theirs, hell we have been raising our own siblings, nieces, nephews and cousins and not one of them turned out homosexual. I have raised practically all in our large family yard and not one of them turned out gay, they are all graduates from universities, colleges and have very successful jobs and are married with children.

      DON`T BE A HYPOCRITE, WAKE UP AND SMELL YOUR SURROUNDINGS!!!

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