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Not too long ago, fellow blogger Danielle Edwards wrote a post on how the world is getting too comfortable with Bizarre Sexual behavior. She made some very interesting point on how destructive sexually transmitted HIV/ AIDS pandemic haunts the very future of humanity and how the world grapples with this phenomenally calamitous disease, where many have taken up the mantle of preaching ‘safe sex’, ‘abstinence’ and ‘staying faithful to one partner’ in a so-called ‘morally loose’ world.
In this post I will like to comment on the issue of same-sex marriages, and also raised the question as to what would be the legal implications in Dominica, if two Dominicans of the same sex were to take advantage of the opportunities that are being provided in some cities in the United States to get married and return to Dominica as a married couple.
This issue of same sex marriage raises a lot of questions for which there are no easy answers. For example: How would Dominica regard that “marriage” legally? Since no laws would have been broken in the city where the “marriage” took place - let us say San Francisco, for example, where such marriages are being carried out - would that couple be breaking the law in Dominica if they were to live together as a married couple?
To be sure, it is not a far-fetched scheme, given the fact that homosexuals in this country have been more boldly expressing themselves openly in recent years, as the worldwide “taboo” associated with being gay has lost most of its shame because of the widespread acceptance of this unnatural act as being simply a matter of sexual preference and not the abomination that the Bible says it is.
What makes this likelihood even more terrifying is the possibility that if same-sex marriages conducted abroad were to become acceptable in the nature island, Dominican family life could change drastically, not so much because of gay men, but rather because of the lesbian population - which unknowing is much larger in Dominica than many people would like to believe.
There are many professional women who refuse to lower their standards just to have a man in their lives, and rather than lead a lonely life — with the resultant prospect of growing old by themselves - they start experimenting with filling their sexual needs by having a “relationship” with another woman. After awhile a vast majority of these women become quite comfortable in such relationships and literally remove themselves from having a traditional marriage with a man.
Combined with the fact that 90% of the inmates in Stock Farm State Prison are men, a conclusion could easily be reached that this country is teeming with lesbians who are only waiting for the right time to declare their sexuality openly. It may not have anything to do with the belief that lesbianism is a growing trend in Dominica, but it is not uncommon at public social functions where women to go out socially as a group and dance with each other as couples. This sort of thing no longer even raises eyebrows.
So while there is cause for serious concern in the Caribbean, if the United States does not take legislative action to stop certain jurisdictions from legally performing same sex marriages, the traditional Dominican family, as we know it, could be a thing of the past in many respects.
