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St. Vincent upholds laws criminalizing gay sex in Caribbean island nation in setback for activists
AP (on their own site) ^ | February 16, 2024 | DÁNICA COTO

Posted on 02/18/2024 6:52:10 AM PST by Salman

A top court in St. Vincent and the Grenadines upheld laws on Friday that criminalize gay sex, a blow to activists who have long decried the violence the LGBTQ+ community has faced on the conservative Caribbean archipelago.

The ruling by St. Vincent’s High Court stems from a 2019 case filed by two gay men from St. Vincent who live in the U.K. and U.S. They sought to strike down colonial-era laws that call for 10 years in prison for anal intercourse and five years for “gross indecency” with another person of the same sex.

Cristian González Cabrera, a senior researcher at Human Rights Watch, called the ruling “a travesty of justice” and said it represents “tacit state endorsement” of the discrimination against the LGBTQ+ community.

“It is a sad day for human rights in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and the ruling will weaken the rule of law for everyone in the country,” he said.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda

1 posted on 02/18/2024 6:52:10 AM PST by Salman
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To: Salman

I’m moving to St. Vincent!


2 posted on 02/18/2024 7:08:50 AM PST by Delta 21 (If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
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To: Salman

If they just kept their bedroom adventures behind the bedroom door they’d be free to poke a poop hole when needed. “Coming out” every minute of the day is not playing to their advantage in some cases


3 posted on 02/18/2024 7:09:29 AM PST by albie
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To: Salman

Say hello to Papa Spoons, and if Les Scott is still alive. Long life. The joints were the size of cigars and they threw away more than people buy here in the states. Check out Union island. And barefoot charters with Seth Sethia.


4 posted on 02/18/2024 7:14:49 AM PST by kvanbrunt2
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To: Salman

Oh the horror. Everyone in the world doesn’t love and promote gay sex.

I am sure all the western gay sex adoring countries will gang up and bully this place until they give in.


5 posted on 02/18/2024 7:17:43 AM PST by dforest
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To: Salman
“It is a sad day for human rights in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and the ruling will weaken the rule of law for everyone in the country,” he said.

It is a great day for the Rights of God.

And it is a fantastic thing that somewhere in the world the Law of God still holds sway.

6 posted on 02/18/2024 7:22:16 AM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Delta 21

“St. Vincent is behind” some would say.

But it looks like the real truth is that “St. Vincent is not behind”.


7 posted on 02/18/2024 7:23:53 AM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER REV. NIEMOLLER)
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To: Salman

This should be a rallying call for tens of thousands of our Alphabet People to go there immediately and protest by sodomizing each other in the public square.


8 posted on 02/18/2024 7:32:52 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: albie

Pablo Mondo too.


9 posted on 02/18/2024 7:40:00 AM PST by nwrep
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To: kvanbrunt2

Pablo Mondo too.


10 posted on 02/18/2024 7:40:21 AM PST by nwrep
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To: Salman

If human society survives, it WILL NOT be because of the demented ‘values’ of the First World.


11 posted on 02/18/2024 7:51:36 AM PST by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
This is the real reason Joshua gone Barbados.

12 posted on 02/18/2024 8:20:02 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv

The Wrath of God is on us.


13 posted on 02/18/2024 8:44:46 AM PST by chopperk (e )
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To: Salman

I say that it is a wonderful day for St. Vincent and the Grenadines!

Butt Pirates are perverts and do not belong in any society.


14 posted on 02/18/2024 9:36:18 AM PST by BatGuano (2020 = Stolen Election. Believe it! Molon Labe.)
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To: Salman

But yet we can’t criminalize gay pornography sex in the US Senate

Shows you how screwed up our county has become


15 posted on 02/18/2024 10:58:01 AM PST by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: BatGuano
I say that it is a wonderful day for St. Vincent and the Grenadines!

I agree 100%, but think about it. A great day because they are normal like all of western civilization used to be. Our society has fallen so low.

16 posted on 02/18/2024 11:47:58 AM PST by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: Salman

Sodomy is not a human right.


17 posted on 02/18/2024 11:56:11 AM PST by thecodont
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To: BobL

Black Africans HATE the gay crap.


18 posted on 02/18/2024 1:23:18 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GFLOBALISM ! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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