Triumph over secularist agenda
A win for Donald Trump in the just concluded US general election is being touted as a major victory for Christians locally, who are opposed to what is considered the secularist agenda that was being put forward by Democratic candidate Kamala Harris and members of her party.
Among those celebrating Trump’s historic win is the chairman of the Jamaica Coalition for a Healthy Society (JCHS), Dr. Wayne West, who reasoned that the people in the United States have rejected the Democrats. The Republicans have won the Senate and claimed the majority of votes to guarantee Trump’s second term in the White House.
“The challenge in the United States at the moment is that the Democrats represent a secular approach to policy. They care nothing about God; their policies are built solely on human desire, and they are advocating for things like abortion as a human right and all the LGBTQ behaviours as human rights. Of course, if these are human rights, this will result in suppression of freedom of religion, specifically, freedom of Christianity, freedom to speak about Christian values, and so on, so I think it is a very good thing that the Americans have rejected the secular humanists agenda of the Democrats,” Dr. West told the Freedom Come Rain.
Dr. West stated that by voting for Trump and the Republican party, there is room for a transcendent moral approach to human rights so that the only basis for human rights is that human beings are made in the image of God and that human behaviour must be consistent with the design and purpose that God determines.
“The Democrats and their allies around the world have rejected that and replaced human desire as the basis for human rights, and that is the path to destruction,” Dr. West said.
Already, members of the LGBTQ community, abortion rights activists, and climate change supporters are worried about what a Trump win could mean for their individual cause. Trump has been called a transphobe because of his anti-trans messaging. In his first term in office, he banned transgender people from serving in the military, erased mentions of LGBTQ+ people from federal websites, rescinded protections for trans students in schools, and opposed special workplace protections for LGBTQ+ employees. His administration had also disbanded the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS and had ordered the removal of LGBTQ flags at US embassies globally in support of pride month.
Trump’s supporters had reportedly spent tens of millions on advertisements branding the trans community as a threat to public safety and decency. Among the most widely circulated ads of the election cycle was a commercial proclaiming, “Kamala is for they/them. President Trump is for you.”
