As we approach the end of the year and look forward to the new year ahead, it is a time for reflection, renewal, and, most importantly, embracing the spirit of love, kindness, and acceptance that the holiday season encourages.
Yet, as we stand on the threshold of 2025, it’s impossible to ignore a troubling issue that continues to persist in our beloved Dominica—our treatment of LGBTQ+ individuals.
When will we, as proud Nature Islanders Dominicans by birth—finally accept the truth that there are full-fledged gay and lesbian nationals living among us?
It is disheartening to witness the level of ignorance and intolerance still being displayed in society when members of the
LGBTQ+ community walk the streets of our towns and villages.
This outdated mindset, rooted in shame and exclusion, has no place in a modern society that claims to value love and compassion.
The holiday season, a time when we focus on peace, joy, and goodwill towards all, should serve as a reminder of the values we hold dear. How can we genuinely embrace these ideals if we continue to foster an environment where intolerance and ignorance are allowed to thrive?
It is 2024, soon to be 2025, and yet the reality that LGBTQ+ individuals in Dominica are still being marginalized and treated with disdain is simply unacceptable.
What makes this situation even more disturbing is the hypocrisy that some in our society continue to exhibit. There are women who publicly condemn and look down upon LGBTQ+ persons, judging them for their sexuality and choices.
However, behind closed doors, these same women often have relationships with men who are part of the LGBTQ+ community—husbands, boyfriends, and even brothers, secretly engaging in relationships with gay or bisexual individuals.
This double standard not only exposes the ignorance and hypocrisy in our society, but it also highlights the deep-seated issues surrounding acceptance and understanding. As we embrace the new year and the promise of a fresh start, let us commit to evolving as a society.
Dominica can and should be a place of inclusivity, where we celebrate the diversity of our people.
We must stand up for the rights and dignity of LGBTQ+ individuals, allowing them to live openly and authentically without fear of rejection or discrimination. Let the values of the holiday season—peace, joy, and acceptance—be more than just words.
Let them guide us in 2025 and beyond. It’s time to reject hatred and embrace the diversity that makes us stronger as a nation.
As we ring in the new year, let us make a resolution to move forward with open hearts, open minds, and a commitment to treating every Dominican, regardless of their sexual orientation, with the respect and dignity they deserve.
Wishing everyone a prosperous, peaceful, and inclusive New Year! Let us move forward with compassion and unity.
NewYearNewBeginnings #LoveIsLove #DominicaForAll #LGBTQInclusion #EqualityForAll
EmbraceDiversity #Happy2025
Sincerely,
“In a world where you can be anything, be kind.”
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The Bible is not and will never be outdated no matter how we try to deceive ourselves. I encourage us all to seek God while he will be found. Don’t be the one running around trying to find a safe place when he begins to pour out his wrath. The door of mercy is still open. Please, take advantage of the opportunity now. Let us surrender our lives to Jesus Christ while we still can. Punishment never comes without a warning.
Pro 1:23-30 KJV 23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you. 24 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; 25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: 26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; 27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. 28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: 29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD: 30 They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
It’s time to legalize gay and lesbian marriages in the caribbean!!!!! All lives matter.
Can Antigua News Room remain as news that concerns Antigua. Keep Dominica gay news in Dominica. As we approach 2025, let’s maintain the biblical standards that Antigua was founded on. Going against Godly principles brings curses on a nation. Righteousness exalts a nation but sin is a reproach to any People. We depise sin but love the sinner. Antigua has never had a problem with treating gay people kindly. We will continue to treat all people with kindness but that does not mean we must call sin or what is wrong right. God’s Word is forever and can never be outdated! We don’t have to follow the world down a wrong path, we are a sovereign nation! We do what is right regardless of who is doing what is wrong. If tomorrow the.new trend is for people to marry their pets, do we follow that too? It’s time for Antigua and Barbuda to stand on righteousness again as we enter 2025!
fyah bun dat
Do NOT embrace sin!!! It leads to death and separation from our Creator. Thankfully God’s gift of life eternal is available to “…WHOSOEVER…” in Jesus name Amen 🙏🏿
Pure Hypocrisy. Sin in any way shape or form is not to be tolerated!!!
We unfortunately pick and choose which is the worst or biggest sin !!
What about the sins we cannot see? Or you forgot we sin in thought word and deed?
We are so self righteous that we jump on the homosexuals and forget the sins in our own heart!
Cry aloud for the fornication and adulatory we seem to pass over so easily!
Cry out for the spilled blood in Antigua via Abortion!
Cry out for the temples of God being exploited all over Pope’s head street.
Cry out for the wicked leaders/rulers and those who endorse their evils.
Cry out for the shepherds who are fleecing the flock in the name of Yah!
When your neighbor house on fire wet yours.
Clean up your back yard before you come to the front and talk
#DropMic
Thank you “Belle” for your commonsense comments. While I do not endorse discrimination in any form, I strongly oppose those who try to shame others for refusing to accept and embrace queer, unnatural, irreverent behavior and I, for one will NEVER embrace homosexuality as a biological or societal norm.
Quit trying to force your nastiness on normal right thinking individuals. Keep those thoughts and your lifestyle to yourself. At the end of the day it is YOU people who are harassing US while playing the victim.
Treat them with respect yes but we don’t have to condone their BS! Ah God we say & ah the Bible we ah defend! So love them but dem nar force we in dem batty to batty & cyah to cyat business. Sodom & Gomorrah go tear up dis place again. Think God ah play wid aryu?
GOD IS LOVE……Be reminded that God loves each of His creation, despite our sinful condition. The Gospels displays Jesus as one who accepted all sinners. However, He showed them a better way by inviting them to follow Him. To follow Him meant to leave the current sinful life they were living to do as He did, spoke as He spoked and walk as he walked. In other words, Jesus was inviting sinners to repent and be like Him. It’s sad and disappointing that many of us Christians who are struggling with sin, look down on others who sin differently. We need to understand that ALL have sinned and come short of the Glory of God Romans 3:23. Christians, let us get our act together and pray, asking Jesus to help us who are living sinful lives to stop looking down on other sinners. Pray that we accept all people like Jesus did, despite their lifestyle. Pray that we all accept Jesus so He can save us from our sins.
Sin does not require love or kindness.
Demons and demonic structures do not warrant love or kindness.
God is love, and He opposes acts and lifestyles that are sinful. How can we justify calling the acceptance of sin “love”? While I acknowledge that some individuals are harsh and even cruel in their treatment of the LGBTQ+ community, that is a separate issue. It is essential to differentiate between addressing the person and the sin they participate in—something many Caribbean individuals, whether Christian or not, struggle to do effectively.
Jesus is Lord, and every high thing that seeks to elevate itself against Him must be uprooted, rebuked, and destroyed in His name—not accepted, encouraged, or tolerated.
#AntiguaAndBarbudaForJesus
#TheCaribbeanForJesus
I read what the author is saying and I agree that we must be friends, kind and peaceful towards all sinners without embracing or encouraging the sin. I am against sinning but not against humanity.
I will not hate the lying and stealing politicians, I will not hate the thieves, rapist, murderers, those who abuse others, and I will not hate gays. I will not hate those men that cheat on their wife, I will not hate those women that cheat on their husband. I will only hate the sin but not the individuals.
I believe vagina is the greatest thing for a man to have but I also believe that allowing freewill is much more important, even when I will not like what the freewill will be used for, as God mandated that, freewill.
I think my only duty on this planet is to inform you of the right decisions and consequences of the wrong ones, not to take away your freewill. God has never.
I will not hate any sinners, especially those nonviolent ones, with “victimless” sins. They should be safe in their communities just like us who sins in other ways. Who see beautiful women and have thoughts, who had sex with the married woman, who have lied before, etcetera
Sins are sins. We should hate all sins but love the people in hope to save each and everyone of us from our sins.