Free National Movement (FNM) MP Neko Grant said yesterday he is not prepared to support the fourth constitutional ammendment bill unless the government adds the words "at birth" to the question.
St. Anne's MP Hubert Chipman also said he still has serious concerns with question four and said "at birth" should be added to the question.
Chipman and Grant said they were told that the Constitutional Commission would meet with them to discuss their issue with question four, but have heard nothing from the commission in the last 10 weeks.
The fourth bill seeks to make it unconstitutional for any law or any person acting in the performance of any public office to discriminate based on sex.
Many fear that the bill could lead to same-sex marriage in the country.
The commission has proposed an amendment to the question to include a definition of sex as "male and female".
But Grant, MP for Central Grand Bahama, said, "All I want them to put on question four is male and female at birth.
"They have male and female, all I want added is at birth. So I don't know what the big deal is. That's it. Two words: at birth.
"I've made my position very clear and I don't know why they are making a mountain out of a molehill.
"Why are they worrying about me and Chippie?
"They have three of their members, [Fort Charlotte MP Dr. Andre] Rollins, [Marco City MP Greg] Moss and [Bamboo Town MP Renward] Wells who they need to convince. But don't use us as a scapegoat not to bring it."
Grant said, "I will not support it unless they add at birth."
Prime Minister Perry Christie has said that the government will not move ahead with the proposed constitutional referendum without unanimous support in the House of Assembly.
The referendum, which was slated to take place in June 2013, has been delayed four times.
The government has said the vote will now take place "sometime next year".
Chipman said he spoke with Commission Chairman Sean McWeeney about his issue with question four and was assured that it would be addressed.
But he said it never was.
"No one has spoken to me since we had that discussion with Sean McWeeney," he said.
"As a matter of fact, I didn't go looking for Sean McWeeney, he came to me."
Chipman said he is tired of the blame game regarding the constitutional ammendment bills.
"It has nothing to do with us, the opposition," he said.
"The government needs 29 votes in the House of Assembly to pass the bills.
"You can run on...about [how] you are not going ahead until you get unanimous support, but the thing is we had unanimous support with the 2002 bills and they went and campaigned against the bills."
During a similar exercise in 2002, the then opposition, headed by Perry Christie, voted in support of the bills in the House, then openly campaigned against them. The questions were later defeated.

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