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Archive for August, 2005

The renkest thing about how Jamaica is handling this homosexuality thing is that it seem to be bowing (bending over backward) to the wishes of the gay brigade from within and outside of Jamaica. Take a bow Human Rights Watch and Outrage, two pro-gay organisations that have previously labelled Jamaica and its people homophobic and suggesting that the Jamaica government is helping to spread AIDS/HIV by not repealing its anti-sodomy law.

This so-called debate on homosexuality and prostitution is a smokescreen for what they have already decided: to decriminlise homosexuality. They are using the excuse that the current constitutionally elected situation where homosexuality is illegal in Jamaica, is somehow preventing gay people from getting treatment for AIDS/HIV. Figures of 1.5% (or 22,000 people) of Jamaica’s 2.6 million, have been produced to show that Jamaica is somehow slipping into some sexual depravity abyss.

This lie is not only barefaced and deceitful: it is also immoral. The two main political parties have several key homosexuals within their ranks. To aficionado well familiar with underground Jamaica, it is well known that two things run the country: the cocaine (or drugs) business and the “battyman” (homosexual) business. This is practised through corruption and enforced via gun-toting violence when necessary.

Jamaica’s Bigger Problems

Jamaica has bigger problems than worrying about homosexuality, yet this is paraded like its such an urgent that has to be addressed or the country will crumble under the weight of its activity. Health Minister John Junor likening the situation to a hurricane is regrettable, laughable and shallow.

His words comes across as the cry of a pro-homosexuality campaigner trying to convince or appease some unseen or unknown paymaster as to why s/he should finance the initiative to get Jamaica debating about homosexuality. Jamaica does not need to debate anything which it has already agreed constitutionally, culturally and morally that it is against. Forcing this issue down people’s throats will only harden their resolve against it.

If the government bow to external (or internal pressure) and somehow change the law and decriminalises homosexuality, they will have done what government minister senator Burchell Whiteman said Jamaica would never do: bow to outside pressures.

“We as the duly elected representatives of the people feel that it is the people who must set our agenda in respect of the legislation which we pass or the repeal of any existing laws,” senator Whiteman said in a statement in November 2004. “We are certainly not about to respond to any organisation, external to the country, which may want to dictate to us how and when to deal with the laws of our land.”

I guess that was then but no matter what pro-homosexual laws are implemented, especially without the consent of the majority population, if the people of Jamaica disagree with it then it will never get its support.

Homosexuality Massacre

Homosexuality is one such subject and practice that has consistently shown it will never be supported by a Jamaican majority any time soon. If it is not being opposed by devout religious Rastafarians, Christians and Muslims it is being massacred by macho street toughs, entertainers and others who simply abhor the subject and practice.

If after all of this the Jamaican government still want to decriminalise homosexuality and thrust the practice of same sex relations on its people, then it can expect a very big uproar indeed. This is not a reactionary tale, but a realistic one.

If the aim is to have a real debate about the subject to gauge how relaxing the laws could affect the infected’s take up of AIDS/HIV treatment, then it remains to be seen what the outcome will be. If John Junor and others have already decided the outcome ahead of such a debate then obviously they will be in for a very rough ride over the issue, once such a revelation breaks. All hell would most certainly breaks loose.

It is not far-fetched to imagine teams of people protesting the issue, burning down things and venting their anger against anything that support an introduction of legal homosexuality into Jamaica.

It would take a rather brave (or stupid) government to go against the Jamaican people when they are in this mood.