Well almost. There are some who have not joined the Cayman Ministers Association’s campaign to promote the accepted Christian/Biblical stance against alternative lifestyles with the emphasis on same-sex unions.

The Association’s leaders have spearheaded an education programme “to raise awareness of biblical teachings” and to support “traditional values”.

At last we now have some positive action from the Association although I would have preferred it advertised as a conference instead of the implied teaching/rally. The rally is scheduled for the Lions centre on Sunday September 11th.

At least the Association have somewhat agreed our religious community in the Cayman Islands have been slow in coming together as a united front to promote what their individual churches have been preaching.

“The time has now come. God has allowed us to come together to work collectively,” Pastor Alson Ebanks, deputy chair of the Cayman Ministers Association and senior pastor of the George Town Church of God Chapel.

No, Pastor Alson. God allowed you to come together on this subject a long time. None of you listened together and acted together.

Pr. Alson acknowleged that some of the alternative lifestyles taking place are even in the pews.

They are more than that. They are in the Christian clergy!

I appreciate they have a very difficult subject but Jesus Christ never said the Christian road was an easy one.

This is the reason the doctrinal message has been watered down over the years to accommodate “modern” leanings. Even if these modern leanings are the work of Satan!

The joint statement from the Ministers Association included endorements from Pastor Torrance Bobb, chairman of the Cayman Ministers’ Association, Pastor Jeff Shion O’Connor, president of the Cayman Islands Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, and Pastor Jeff Jefferson of the Ebenezer Adventist Church.

Their aim is to “join forces locally and regionally to provide a platform for promoting traditional values, particularly in view of perceived efforts to change cultural values regionally and locally.”

Speakers at the rally include Pastor Ebanks, David Gibbs, a lawyer with the U.S. National Center for Life and Liberty, and Brendan Bain, a doctor and church elder. Bain is described as a pioneer in treating AIDS patients in Jamaica.

It will be interesting to see what the attendance will be and how many of Cayman’s churches cancel their own services on that day so as not to conflict.

But at last there is SOME church unity. Praise the Lord for that.