Dear Mr Editor,

As could be expected, the same-sex marriage debate rages on with some irrational, fervent posturing from both sides, to be fair. What is interesting to me, however, is the now role reversal of the most divisive and nasty name-calling.

It would be absolutely true to admit it was the straight community who, for what could be said was a lifetime, started this most unpleasant practice.

For those of us on that side to now cry foul may ring hollow indeed for gay people, who bare scars of hateful name-calling.

To see Bermuda in the birth pangs of the same-sex revolution is amazing to observe: a once conservative and largely churchgoing and Judaeo-Christian interpretation of morality sliding towards postmodern liberal thinking of same-sex acceptance.

The new normal is the now overused “Bible thumpers”, homophobes and bigoted haters driven by intolerance and hatred — for the record, I belong to that group. This is name-calling of a group you disagree with at best or despise at worst. We all need to do better.

The new doctrine of love is love is flawed and just wrong no matter how romantic the notion is. Sexual intimacy before marriage, marital infidelity and same-sex unions are wrong in the sight of God and we are a Christian country. If we expunge the idea of sexual immorality and depravity from our society, we do so at considerable peril.

If we think what we are prepared to teach our children as decent and normal behaviour in this most sensitive area does not matter, then we are asleep at the wheel.

We, the community of Christian faith, cannot hold our peace on this critical paradigm shift for the wellbeing of this little Island we call home going forward.

The institution of marriage as ordained by God alone came shortly after creation was between a man and a woman. It takes a lot more than romantic love for it to work and last.

A man shall leave mother and father and cleave to his wife. Then they become one flesh in union by body and spirit, consummated by male and female conjugal relation by their physical design. Is this Bible thumping? Clearly it is — and it is right.

The argument of the failure of marriage between male and female often caused by adultery or other reasons attest to the fact that man is fallen and in need of redemption.

What about the millions of marriages that work and thrive notwithstanding that they are not all Christian in their beliefs.

The whole world adopted marriage by God’s model, regardless of their religious practices. If marriage has its origins at a source other than scripture, let’s hear it with substantive evidence.

Now we are prepared to disinvite God from matrimony for mankind and make what is unnatural acceptable because we have lost our way.

What is being sought, if successful, will alter our foundation at the core of what is the essence of wrong-headed, liberal insanity for moral revision.

WAYNE B. SCOTT