'Don't Bow To Gay Pressure' - Crusaders Urge Jamaicans To Stand By Buggery Law
Jodi-Ann Gilpin, Gleaner Writer wrote:
Peter LaBarbera, president of the Americans For Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH), in the United States of America (US), has encouraged Jamaicans to be grounded in their Christian beliefs and not to be lured by other countries in repealing the buggery law.
"The United States has no business lecturing anybody about sexual morality. America has rampant abortions, rampant promiscuity, and I stand wholeheartedly with Jamaicans and encourage you all to hold to your beliefs, " LaBarbera told The Gleaner.
LaBarbera made the comments Saturday following The Jamaica Coalition for a Healthy Society International Human Rights conference at the Jamaica Conference Centre in downtown Kingston.
"We are all watching Jamaica to see what happens (buggery law), and I believe if Jamaica can stand up and not bow to the pressure, you can be an example to the world. There is no need to follow anybody," LaBarbera said.
Christian lobbyist
Similarly, Andrea Williams, a Christian lobbyist in the legal public policy arena in the United Kingdom, told The Gleaner that family values should be prioritised.
"When we begin to make normal something that is contrary to proper family standards, that is social engineering, and we are in serious trouble, " she said.
"What Jamaica needs to understand is that the homosexual activists have an incremental agenda; because this is where its starts, by them asking for rights, and then our society's morals become redefined," she continued.
Several US states have lifted the stay on gay marriage, including California earlier this year and Illinois in November.
Jamaica's Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has promised to have the Parliament engage in a conscience vote on whether or not to repeal the buggery act.
Minister with responsibility for information Sandrea Falconer said the debate "will certainly be within this parliamentary year".
During a leadership debate on the eve of the December 2011 general election, then Opposition Leader Simpson Miller said her administration was committed to the protection of human rights.
Simpson Miller declared that it was time for a review of the buggery law, saying she believed the issue should be put to a conscience vote in the Parliament.
"The United States has no business lecturing anybody about sexual morality. America has rampant abortions, rampant promiscuity, and I stand wholeheartedly with Jamaicans and encourage you all to hold to your beliefs, " LaBarbera told The Gleaner.
LaBarbera made the comments Saturday following The Jamaica Coalition for a Healthy Society International Human Rights conference at the Jamaica Conference Centre in downtown Kingston.
"We are all watching Jamaica to see what happens (buggery law), and I believe if Jamaica can stand up and not bow to the pressure, you can be an example to the world. There is no need to follow anybody," LaBarbera said.
Christian lobbyist
Similarly, Andrea Williams, a Christian lobbyist in the legal public policy arena in the United Kingdom, told The Gleaner that family values should be prioritised.
"When we begin to make normal something that is contrary to proper family standards, that is social engineering, and we are in serious trouble, " she said.
"What Jamaica needs to understand is that the homosexual activists have an incremental agenda; because this is where its starts, by them asking for rights, and then our society's morals become redefined," she continued.
Several US states have lifted the stay on gay marriage, including California earlier this year and Illinois in November.
Jamaica's Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has promised to have the Parliament engage in a conscience vote on whether or not to repeal the buggery act.
Minister with responsibility for information Sandrea Falconer said the debate "will certainly be within this parliamentary year".
During a leadership debate on the eve of the December 2011 general election, then Opposition Leader Simpson Miller said her administration was committed to the protection of human rights.
Simpson Miller declared that it was time for a review of the buggery law, saying she believed the issue should be put to a conscience vote in the Parliament.
ENDS
Sadly alot of the opposition that now comes was stoked by the very lobby I fell namely JFLAG voices who are also atheists so inflaming the discourse to more than just the repeal of decriminalization of the buggery law to conflations of paedophilic behaviour by persons legal to practice same sex intimacy in private and so on. In fairness JFLAG has changed their tune though oh so late in my view as to the repeal of buggery and instead wants an amendment to the act to include consent and privacy. But as we have a saying in Jamaica "the horse done gone through the gate" and so we have to contend if not carried along with the tide until there is some enlightenment I hope.
The other challenge to all this as was alluded to in last evening's CVM footage is the fear of gay marriage rights being demanded next at buggery's decriminalization and the supposed destruction of the family when said families are already being destroyed in more ways than one, take a look at the divorce rates to include church persons, take a look at the forced evictions of perceived gay youth from their homes, the numbers are frightening and this is not being alarmist in any way.
also see:
Dr Wayne West’s continued intellectual dishonesty on fisting felching & chariot racing by homosexuals in Jamaica
also of interest is this discussion on separation of church and state on local TV in November 2013
December 9, 2013:
Pastor lashes out at 'injustices' faced by gays (Jamaica Observer)
December 12th UPDATE: Buy no rings, you won’t wed; religious fear-mongering on gay marriage & the buggery law continues
There is so much more to discuss and understand on all sides involved.
Peace and tolerance
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