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In a radical shift of position, the Jamaican government is now prepared to hear arguments for, and against, the legalisation of homosexuality and prostitution. Its a move that is likely to ignite new controversy in a country with strong anti-gay sentiments.
Before this, any calls for the Patterson administration to engage in a debate on the issue and for it to repeal the law against buggery had been greeted with a flat "no".
But last week, the parliamentary committee on Human Resources and Social Development, chaired by junior education minister Donald Rhodd, proposed a debate on the issue as a matter of public health.
The issue was raised in the committee report on its deliberations on HIV/AIDS, as Jamaica moves to strengthen its response to the pandemic and end discrimination and stigma against people living with the disease.


Fire Fi All Dem RassHole Gays

Wow, legal homosexuality in Jamaica may happen huh? This will surely be VERY interesting.

Wah Ja thinkin, all dis talk bout bun battymen and now deh wah legalize it, i can see deh legalizing de prostituting ting but de gays nah man fiyah fi all gays.

so allyuh tink dey arrestin anybody for homosexuality now?? steupsssss

the law has obviously not stopped gay men from bein in jamaican and yuh cyah tell mih dey doh have no gay men, cuz if dey don't...i want to know why de ass dem artists and dj wastin dey time singin bout "bun out all chi chi"

i don't know why they think by legalizin dis law which has hardly been enforced throughout the last century, that the rate of HIV/AIDS will decrease, but i have to give dem props for givin it a try. hopin dat it would work. de only way the stigma would disappear is if ppl became more understanding, that will happen wit time.



as for the prostitution, dem gyul an dem will still find deyself on de corna makin fares. if dis was legal, i doh know...would it be tax deductable? would the gov't want piece of what you makin fuh skinnin yuh leg?? me eh know, seem to have a lot more detail to dat that was not noted in yuh "article"

plus....do you have de link/source?

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yeah, run some credits nuh.

Hm! Ah see dey caving een to pressure.

Seeing that they are prepared to hear arguements on both situations, that means there is an abundance of gays. lesbians, and prostitutes in Jamaica. In every song they talking about bun dis bun dat. Dem have rell issues oui!

They just said they are willing to talk about it... but no law not passing in Jamaica in favour of batty man.

By the way.. wha dat minister name? Rhodd?

Hope dem don't try dat shit in Trini and Barbados, cyah say America cuz dem motha k__t gays done marrying eachother.

dem "gays" not marrying each other everywhere, and they still don't have full benefits. plus, once dem eh messin wit you and yuh oman, wha yuh worried fuh??




in trinidad it is legal to be homosexual. so wha yuh talkin bout iah?

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yeah, run some credits nuh.

yea for real why am i worried?? i could give a rass azz bout gays.

Not really. We still have laws against sodomy.

Buh allyuh own Primie Minister gay. Wha you talking bout? Is how much yrs now he wife leave him and gorn? And up tuh now he never fine ah next woman. What ah ting!

People getting the sodomy laws confused with homosexuality laws.

Toppa... who seh dih man gay? Stop listen to propaganda nuh...

Before ah have to start talking about dih battyman dem weh deh ah Trinidad.

Sort of.... although the sodomy laws make anal sex illegal, which is pretty much putting a cork on gay sex nuh true?