TAKEN FROM BLOG PNG ATTITUDE
You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post.Having experienced at first hand the indignation of PNG students to homosexual relationships between a teacher with a Keravat student in 1981, I feel this call by Dame Carol Kidu for PNG to decriminalise homosexuality is not something many PNG people would agree with.
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The students caused thousands of dollars worth of damage to the school and they were very angry that homosexual relations had occurred. To them it was an abomination.
The problem in Australia now is that homosexual couples want their relationship to be recognised as being the same as a man-woman relationship and they want the Marriage Act changed so their relationship can also be called a marriage.
The Christian church believes that a true marriage is between a man and a woman, not a man and a man or a woman and a woman.
One PNG minister said recently "Much good comes out of the West which pleases God and humanity but not this thing about tolerating homosexuality."
Posted by: Mrs Barbara Short | 31 July 2012 at 10:21 AM
Tanya and Corney - you've obviously never been to Gay Night at Shady Rest.
Posted by: Peter Kranz | 31 July 2012 at 09:57 AM
This will be another blunt statement.
I have yet to read reports and statistics of societies getting any better from where they were as a result "legitimizing and granting full scale right to dig into human beings bodies' rear ends".
Legitimizing homosexuality in PNG will not right a wrong but will grant legitimacy (legal right, permission, blessing or OK to the minute fraction of the population and foreigners who ply this trade to abuse gullible, ignorant and innocent Papua New Guineans in a big commercial scale.
Is this development? I label this "devil-opment".
Now, it this the kind of opportunity and jobs that we have been secretly planning to absorb these poorly educated youths into - an abominable way of making ends meet and their survival?
This country has seen enough rot in other forms of digging/harvesting and shipment.
The next government has "other more urgent and critical issues to deal with" than wasting time with something that is clearly a non-issue (and realistically of no value)to the masses of this blessed country.
Carol Kidu - with the experience you have under your belt and the important networking that you have build during your political career, please start campaigning on a more respectable bill that the country will support you on.
This homosexuality thing, the people of PNG will not buy into it, so please put the proposal into the trash bin and forget about it.
Posted by: Tanya Zeriga Alone & Corney K Alone | 31 July 2012 at 08:02 AM
Maybe go with Polye’s proposal of getting all youths into National Service – that’s one option to consider.
Dame Carol - There are other pressing issues to deal with that can meaningfully engage the youth of Papua New Guinea.
Certainly not this cheap license to corrupt the youth and future of PNG.
Trade related jobs and opportunities, "tailored and clean tourism jobs and opportunities", agriculture and others are glaring in front of our faces.
These are the issues that require immediate policy intervention and financial banking from the PNG Government and others that do genuinely care to land a hand.
Not definitely "another license to mine, fish, pollute and destroy the rear ends" and the morality of the youths of my beloved country. Doing so would invite curse.
The youth of PNG must be empowered to get off their rear ends, sweat their brows and get their hands dirty to make a decent living.
Now, that's something that we will be proud of - a legacy worth eulogising over after we have effectively retired and retire for eternity.
Please don't jump into this bandwagon too soon because some big organisations and funding agencies want us to implement. We must apply wisdom to choose the kind of progress we want.
Posted by: Corney K Alone | 30 July 2012 at 10:46 AM
The act of decriminalising homosexuality will not solve the unemployment problem and is something we do not want to encourage.
Yes, we are peoples of a thousand tribes and in one of those tribes these practises may have been encouraged for whatever reason. These tribes have, to their credit have grown out of it.
Using this example as a plank to decriminalise homosexual practice at national level is not the ideal solution for solving unemployment.
Posted by: John Wali | 30 July 2012 at 06:35 PM