A beacon of hope to the nation
Flame piercing through the thorns
On the 7th of June, 2024, the speaker of Sri Lanka’s Parliament announced to the legislators that the UN-Lanka Gender Equality bill has been found by the Supreme Court to be unconstitutional in its objects, its provisions, and as a whole. Yes, the 7th of June 2024.
It was refreshing, nay invigorating, that the 3 Justices of the Supreme Court ruled with integrity and common sense on the deceptive and dangerous "Gender” “Equality" bill. Justice Padman Surasena rightly recognised that:
· The bill was not proposing amendments to existing legislation, but was seeking to create new law
· The bill referred to the UNFPA-developed National Policy, which neo-Marxist radical-feminist family-breaking document, was not incorporated as a schedule to the bill
· There were differences in English and Sinhala versions of this UNFPA-Lanka “National Policy”, which were found on the Women’s Ministry website
· Parliament cannot abdicate legislative power and give force of law to vagueness empowered by the ambiguity of the policy document, which enables arbitrary and capricious exercise of power
· That sex and “gender” are distinct concepts
· That neither “gender” nor “gender identity” is recognised as a category in the Constitution
· That special rights are indeed privileges, and that affirmative action contravenes fundamental concepts in law such as the equality of all before the law and their entitlement to equal protection of the law
· The bill indirectly attempts to amend the Constitution
· The bill seeks to prevail over other written laws, and have the force of amending contrary provisions and superseding them
· That the laws and rules thus supersedable include those pertaining to Buddha Sasana, which article 9 of the Constritution protects
· That the substantive “equality” sought extends to religious institutions whereby those who are not male, or those who identify as anything other than male, will require representation or opportunity – for example, to be a bhikku or a Cardinal
· The bill will open the path to same-sex “marriages”
· The Council to be set up will have powers to scrutinise bills pending before the legislature, on the flawed and fluid ideas of gender and identity politics
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UCA news reported on the motivations behind this bill earlier, on 29th May 2024: https://www.ucanews.com/news/sri-lankas-gender-equality-bill-comes-under-fire/105243
More information on the “gender bills” can be found here: Descent into Lunacy, and in a series of articles archived here.
About UNFPA:
Furthermore, the Supreme Court ruling recognised the fact that Penal Code 365 and 365A regarding sodomy and buggery between males and between females still stand, and that the Constitution seeks to protect public health and morality. We were reminded that the objectives of the State include “raising the moral and cultural standards of the People”
The shining determination by Justice Padman Surasena, endorsed by Justices Yasantha Kodagoda and Kumudini Wickremasinghe, is a stark contrast to the erroneous reasoning, uncalled for elaborations and disappointing logic recorded in April 2023 by 3 other Justices, in response to the petition regarding the amendment of the penal code with respect to unnatural carnal intercourse and public and private gross indecency, for the provision of privileges to LGB, T, Q, and Plus identifiers and practitioners. This ruling of betrayal of marriage, family, public health and the common good, is dissected here, here and here.
Reacting to the glad tidings and voice of reason, of June 7th 2024, the President Ranil Wickremasinghe declared on 18th June that “This is really a perverse determination which this House should not follow. And I am going to recommend that a select committee be appointed to go into it. There is no need to summon the judges. I don’t think we should go into that. There are enough that can be studied and they can recommend it. Because the majority of the members should be appointed by the Women’s Caucus” and mentioned “judicial cannibalism” and the parliament having its rights taken away.
The Bar Association of Sri Lanka responded in terms of the entire judicial system being threatened and that that establishing a parliamentary select committee to review the Supreme Court’s ruling on the constitutionality of a bill would set a dangerous precedent.
The Lawyers Collective, a legal advocacy group, on 22nd June, condemned the statements made in Parliament by the President, the Justice Minister, the Education Minister, and Parliamentarian Dayasiri Jayasekera under the cover of parliamentary privilege. They also referred to a statement on 19th June by Justice Minister Wijeyedasa Rajapakse regarding civil rights and Adolf Hitler with respect to the Supreme Court determination.
In countries more advanced than Sri Lanka, gender ideology and gender equality is also more advanced. Here is how it is in Canada’s Parliament: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/trudeau-govt-to-make-all-womens-and-mens-washrooms-gender-neutral-in-parliament-buildings/
With respect to the other “gender” bill pervading this country caught between the jaws of United Nations Committees and International banks held in the grip of “progressive” Western Governments:
On 3rd June 2024, it was reported that “Mrs. Yamuna Perera, Secretary to the Ministry of Women, Child Affairs and Social Empowerment, assured the Sri Lanka Parliament’s “Sectoral Oversight Committee on Children, Women and Gender” (yes, that actually is its name) that she would work to present the relevant cabinet paper within two weeks, emphasizing the need to prepare rules and regulations regarding the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.” [CEDAW]
MP Thalatha Atukorale, the Chair, “emphasized that the complete benefit of the above Bill can only be achieved by preparing the rules and regulations for the implementation of the [CEDAW] convention.”
https://parliament.lk/en/committee-news/view/4070
The Women Empowerment bill defines “women’s rights” in terms of UN CEDAW
And what’s wrong with CEDAW? This is CEDAW:
The CEDAW-Lanka Women [sic] Empowerment bill escaped due scrutiny and was enacted on the 20th June 2024. This is in spite of the non-existent newly named National Policy on Advancement and Empowerment of Women that it refers to and seeks to formulate, which in the previous draft was the same above-mentioned UNFPA “National Policy on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment”. It is arguable that many points exposed in the determination made on the Gender Equality bill, would apply to the Women Empowerment bill as well.
In 2024, it was on the 7th of June in SL. It was the 24th of June 2022. What happened two years ago in US? https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/looking-back-on-the-us-supreme-court-overturning-roe-v-wade-two-years-ago-today/
Lead, shining light.
Thank God or those Sri Lanka Supreme Court Justices!