Jamaica: Call for repeal of homosexual, prostitution laws

The Jamaica Gleaner ^ | June 26, 2006 | Dionne Rose

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Call for repeal of homosexual, prostitution laws
published: Sunday | June 25, 2006

Dionne Rose, Parliamentary Reporter

Nicholson (left) and Johnson (right)

 

PROFESSOR PETER Figueroa, vice-chairman of the National AIDS Committee wants laws on the books that criminalise prostitution and homosexual acts to be repealed.

Dr. Figueroa made the recommendation while addressing the Joint Select Committee of Parliament considering the proposed Charter of Rights bill in Gordon House on Wednesday.

"Criminal law prohibiting sexual acts including adultery, sodomy, fornication and commercial sexual encounters between consenting adults in private should be reviewed with the aim of repeal," he said.

INTERNATIONAL BEST PRACTICES

Professor Figueroa was presenting documents from the office of the United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights and the Joint United Nations programme on HIV/AIDS, which he said embodied international best practices in relation to HIV/AIDS and human rights.

"In any event they should not be allowed to impede provision of HIV/AIDS prevention and care services, " he said.

Professor Figueroa is also lobbying for criminal laws to be reviewed to allow for the regulation of occupational health and safety conditions to protect sex workers and their clients.

Turning to the penal institutions, Professor Figueroa said prison authorities should take all necessary measures including staffing and appropriate disciplinary measures to protect prisoners from rape and sexual violence and coercion.

In response to the request, committee member Dr. TrevorMunroe asked Professor Figueroa to give examples of countries, which have repealed laws criminalising against these set of people.

"I do not accept that the Constitution should leave a loop hole despite majority opinion in the country at this time to discriminate against any class of Jamaicans," he said.

DEFIANT

But committee member Senator Johnson was defiant. "I am not interested in getting that information," he said.

Although chairman of the committee, Senator A.J. Nicholson pointed out that Senator Johnson needed to exercise some tolerance in listening to the views of others, he would not hear any of it.

"Ah said ah not interested! I am not being intolerant, but I am just saving the gentleman the trouble he might have in getting that information," he said.

Committee member Mike Henry also raised concerns as to why this particular area of health is being singled out for protection under the proposed bill and said this could send the wrong signal that they were legitimising actions which he said related to the individual's responsibility and to the state.

But Professor Figueroa explained that the disease was an epidemic, which he said is associated with stigma and discrimination.

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[Socratic]

Cue the music: "Come to Jamaica and feel all right!"

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PROFESSOR PETER Figueroa, vice-chairman of the National AIDS Committee wants laws on the books that criminalise prostitution and homosexual acts to be repealed.

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Subtext:

Professor Figueroa moves to ensure job security.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

Good luck to the Jamaicans, their business is their own. But I propose that any American citizen who develops HIV/AIDS after having been in Jamaica, be returned (deported) there for a cure or forever, whichever comes first.

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Cue the music: "Come to Jamaica and feel all right!"

-sarc.

LMAO!

I see that the Jamaicans were listening to Peter Tosh when he said "Legalize it!"

Whenever ineffectual people encounter difficult social problems, that's the usual response.

 

Cue the music: "Come to Jamaica and feel all right!"

-sarc.

LMAO!

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Professor Figueroa moves to ensure job security.

"Ah said ah not interested!"

With that level of piercing intellectual clarity and dedication to doing his job in the best way possible, Jamaicans can feel confident that their social ills will be corrected in no time.

[Socratic]

"Legalize it!"

Yep, cop out.

[Stoat]

But I propose that any American citizen who develops HIV/AIDS after having been in Jamaica, be returned (deported) there for a cure or forever, whichever comes first.

You won't get any arguments from me on that, and I would additionally suggest instituting mandatory AIDS /HIV testing for anyone from any nation with a high incidence of the disease before they come to American shores to begin with, and refuse admission to anyone who tests positive.  After thirty-odd years of playing political footsie with this thing it's long past time to develop an interest in getting serious about it.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

Our publicly funded health care systems are close to collapse right now, in advance of the Boomer generation. And, as the saying goes, in spite of our savings and insurance, we live long enough and we all die on the county. A deluge of wasting deaths at epidemic levels would devastate us. I don't relish the thought of spending my final days on a cot in some hastily errected tent city because billions got spent on "unfortunates" who couldn't control their filthy appetites. </rant>

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[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Slapping the donkey...

Red, black, green and gold - - the colors from the Rastafarian religion, the woolen hats in the four Ethiopian colors, the shrines in those colors found in their yards and pictures of Haile Selassie... (A move by the Left to marginalize Ethiopian Jews?)

What you will not hear from these perpetual pro-marijuana masturbaters is that this “ganga” thing is related to the anti-caucasian and racist Rasafarian religion in Jamaica.

Their ideology is that white men are devils. Marcus Garvey in the early 1900's said an African King would become the black messiah. Ras Tafari was crowned King Haile Selassie of Ethiopia and proclaimed to be their messiah in 1930.

According to the Rastafarian pagans, Ras Tafari did not die in 1975, but went to another dimension. He is called “Jah” and considered to be a god. A pagan perversion of Christian theology.

Of course all of this lunacy is centered around smoking the ganga weed.

That is partly why these feminized males will defend pot smoking, drug abuse and deviant use of their anatomy and are not safe to have around children...

A great post...

To: Sir Francis Dashwood

Without touching on their use of MJ, the rastaferians ALSO pointed Haile being the last "Lion of Judah". It is noteworthy that there's a Biblical prophecy that when the last LOJ goes down, Ethiopia turns into a desert.

And, when Haile went down, the Northern core of the country was turned into a desert by its new Communist masters.

131 posted on 11/28/2005 6:04:36 PM PST by muawiyah (u)

Kwanzaa... just another cultural Marxism like the Rastafarian pothead religion...

Now, look a Tookie's Rastafarian hairstyle and tell me if he is not considered a prince of among the New Age Neo-pagan idolators just like Mumia Abu Jamal...

Another source of amazement is the concept of those who hold candlelight vigils (yet another example of religious ceremony) for heinous murderers about to be executed, a large number of whom think it is acceptable to murder an unborn child without the benefit of a trial. Is the “right to life” of one responsible for much murder and mayhem more important than that of a truly innocent unborn child?

Perhaps we should call capital punishment “post-natal abortion” and identify abortion as a “pre-natal death sentence” or “pre-natal summary execution.”

Another example is Michael Jackson. With the undying support of his “fans” (or fanatics) in the face of his more than questionable activities concerning the abuse of children, they still hold him up as an idol. Jackson, both in his family life as a child and his adult life, is a modern extension of pedagogical pagan pedophilia of previous ages in ancient civilizations. Look at the macabre pagan elements of Jackson's video, Thriller. Michael Jackson now resides in Bahrain... coincidence?

Michael Jackson had Nation of Islam thugs as bodyguards escorting him after court appearances through the throngs of frenzied supporters. Is Jackson their new pharaoh? Nation of Islam is a militant racist cult. Their leaders, Louis Farrakhan (the numerologist) and Kahlid Abdul Mohammed, are known Jew haters. They also support many illogical and socially subversive Leftist political activities intent on tearing down the structures of Modern Western Civilization and capitalism. Why did they shower Tookie Williams with so much adoration?

There is a clear connection between modern neo-paganism and ancient paganism related to Islamic conflict with the Judaic roots of Christendom. A focus on how this is manifested in a modern sense only requires a look at pop-culture icons in entertainment, sports “heroes,” and attempts by the Left to use a pseudo-Christian sense of pagan moralistic idolatry to demonize political opposition. I present to you the attack on U.S. Senator Rick Santorum for his comments on sodomy as a useful example. A Sacred Cow, a golden calf.

Is it coincidence that many domestic social issues are being driven by cultic Leftist advocacy of unnatural, phantasmagoric perversity?

Cultural Marxism run amok... Drugs, sex perverts, pornography (in film and in music), marijuana, liquor, bashing the religious people, destroying social institutions (like marriage and the Boy Scouts), etc., etc.,... ad nausea...

The druggies like the sex perverts can only perpetuate an ever increasing market for their filth by molesting the minds and bodies of the young ones... this is the only way they get new Demo-rat voters... CHEMICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE!

It is no coincidence Islamic pagans hate Israel, Jews, Christians and Western Civilization. The entire basis of Western Civilization is Mosaic Law, something both the Neo-Pagan Left and the pagan Islamic thugs cannot abide and wish to destroy.

The very idea that human beings have individual rights not subject to the whims of an earthly monarch, but subject to the laws of Yahweh, is directly from Moses.

Historically, this is proven over and over again with the succsessive conflicts between the forces of paganism and the Judaic culture. It is being played out here and all over the world today...