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United States giving millions to Jamaica to promote the gay agenda.
The United States could care less if Jamaicans are hungry, unemployed or even uneducated but they want to make sure that Jamaicans are tolerant of homosexuality.
USAID has just funded a project being run by the University of Technology (UTech) with 2.4 million USD.
The project is called “UTech Cares” and was started after two gay students were beaten by security guards at the institution.
Members of the UTech Cares project team are going out of their way to make it clear, that the project is not only about promoting the gay agenda but rather protecting all human rights.
According to project director, Professor Rosalea Hamilton, “If you look at the totality of our project, the homosexual issue is one small part of it.”
Project expert Dr Rohan Lewis, who is also dean of the Faculty of Education and Liberal Studies, rebuffed assertions that human rights is being used as a cover for the gay agenda.
“Part of what we are trying to do as a national university is to engage difficult social issues. There is a debate that has been raging in Jamaica for the last decade and a half in relation to this so-called ‘gay agenda’. There are some real-life consequences to how that debate has unfolded. One of them has been the campaign against some musicians, for instance,” he explained.
He went on to point out that UTech has had to look at the attitude of its students to members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community, given the high level of migration of its students to countries that are more receptive of LGBT people.
“A large number of our students, when they graduate, are going to leave Jamaica and go to societies where they are going to have to deal with this kind of issue. They migrate to the United States; they migrate to Canada; they migrate to the United Kingdom. We, in order to maintain our strength as an institution and maintain our reputation, cannot be producing students who are going to be beating people because they think they are gay,” Lewis said.
“So it is important for us to navigate that in such a way so that not just our students, but other persons in the society, … understand that there are ways of engaging that we need to understand.”
Hamilton argued that universities cannot walk away from engaging issues regarding the LGBT community.
“It is a current social issue that we are grappling with as a nation, and I think universities cannot walk away from it, and if you notice that one of the approaches we have in the project is to study it … . We feel that this issue is much more complex. It’s not about tolerance and intolerance on a linear scale, … and so we have to look at, for example, economic tolerance. Most Jamaicans would tolerate buying a property from someone who is homosexual because they have a home that they want. Many of us work for persons who are gay, and so there is tolerance in ways and places that define who we are … . There are other kinds of levels where we may not be so tolerant, so we have to look at the complexity of the problem of tolerance, and better understand the problem in terms of how it manifests in our society.”
The United States could care less if Jamaicans are hungry, unemployed or even uneducated but they want to make sure that Jamaicans are tolerant of homosexuality.
USAID has just funded a project being run by the University of Technology (UTech) with 2.4 million USD.
The project is called “UTech Cares” and was started after two gay students were beaten by security guards at the institution.
Members of the UTech Cares project team are going out of their way to make it clear, that the project is not only about promoting the gay agenda but rather protecting all human rights.
According to project director, Professor Rosalea Hamilton, “If you look at the totality of our project, the homosexual issue is one small part of it.”
Project expert Dr Rohan Lewis, who is also dean of the Faculty of Education and Liberal Studies, rebuffed assertions that human rights is being used as a cover for the gay agenda.
“Part of what we are trying to do as a national university is to engage difficult social issues. There is a debate that has been raging in Jamaica for the last decade and a half in relation to this so-called ‘gay agenda’. There are some real-life consequences to how that debate has unfolded. One of them has been the campaign against some musicians, for instance,” he explained.
He went on to point out that UTech has had to look at the attitude of its students to members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community, given the high level of migration of its students to countries that are more receptive of LGBT people.
“A large number of our students, when they graduate, are going to leave Jamaica and go to societies where they are going to have to deal with this kind of issue. They migrate to the United States; they migrate to Canada; they migrate to the United Kingdom. We, in order to maintain our strength as an institution and maintain our reputation, cannot be producing students who are going to be beating people because they think they are gay,” Lewis said.
“So it is important for us to navigate that in such a way so that not just our students, but other persons in the society, … understand that there are ways of engaging that we need to understand.”
Hamilton argued that universities cannot walk away from engaging issues regarding the LGBT community.
“It is a current social issue that we are grappling with as a nation, and I think universities cannot walk away from it, and if you notice that one of the approaches we have in the project is to study it … . We feel that this issue is much more complex. It’s not about tolerance and intolerance on a linear scale, … and so we have to look at, for example, economic tolerance. Most Jamaicans would tolerate buying a property from someone who is homosexual because they have a home that they want. Many of us work for persons who are gay, and so there is tolerance in ways and places that define who we are … . There are other kinds of levels where we may not be so tolerant, so we have to look at the complexity of the problem of tolerance, and better understand the problem in terms of how it manifests in our society.”