Dr. Wayne West, chairman of the Jamaica Coalition for a Healthy Society, says that the Democrats in the United States will not get the opportunity to impose their secular agenda on countries like Jamaica.
“We saw in the past where President Barack Obama came here in Jamaica to try and get Jamaica to remove its buggery law and accept same-sex behaviour, and we saw the Biden administration flying the LGBTQ flag over the US embassy. That sort of approach, whereby America would seek to leverage its power to force Jamaica to act and support the secular agenda, that sort of thing will not be there, and that is very good. We don’t want the United States to seek to twist Jamaica’s arm and force it to accept those sorts of things,” he said.
Obama’s administration had taken the US gay rights push globally during his presidency, and this was continued by his successor, Joe Biden. During the Obama administration, the government granted blanket permission to embassies overseas to fly the pride flag during June. This was done at the Jamaican Embassy despite protests from Christian groups like the Love March Movement (LMN). President of the LMN, Dr. Daniel Thomas, told the Freedom Come Rain last week that with the US being so influential in policy decisions in countries like Jamaica, the country could adopt Harris’ view if she won the election. His group has been opposing any effort to legalise abortion in Jamaica.
“When Roe v. Wade was removed, it put less pressure on countries internationally like Jamaica. It allowed easier conversations and perspectives to come about to be able to protect the lives of innocent unborn children, and we need to preserve that in this country,” he said.
US President-elect Donald Trump is to select his cabinet members in the coming weeks for his eventual transition next year into the White House. His inauguration and swearing-in are expected to take place in January 2025.