Speaker, stop hypocracy and embrace diversity

 PLEASE Mr speaker, read the Constitution; nowhere does it declare PNG as a Christian country as it is a myth promoted by ignorant fundamentalists. 

The Constitution does, however, honour ancestral wisdom and pledges all Papua New Guineans to guard  and  pass on these traditions as well as our Christian principles. 

In  Enga, the speaker said that we must all embrace Christianity, but that goes against the very foundation  of  the Constitution, which is a wonderful document that celebrates and promotes our diversity, allowing us to believe in whatever we want to.

But  the speaker wants all of us to  have  one belief – his belief.

Then, he praised traditional Engan values, asking leaders to integrate them  with  Christian  principles. You cannot have it both ways; either you value traditions or you do not.

If you do, you have to accept that many of them came about from something quite different from your brand of Christianity. 

So  quit being a hypocrite and let faith be a private matter, not something for MPs to dictate on us.

Celebrate our diversity, do not destroy it.

N Diting, Via email