Dear Editor,
I have heard a very forceful Dr Carolyn Gomes, formerly of JFJ, referring to the buggery law as discriminatory and that Prof Bain had spoken in support of its retention in Belize.
These laws, as I know it, discriminate between wrong behaviour and right behaviour and apply sanctions to the former.
The issue, therefore, is not about discriminatory laws, but one's view of right or wrong. As long as we are prepared to abandon absolute standards of right and wrong then it is possible for special interests groups to bully the society into submission to their particular vice.
If we accept Gomes' logic then what arguments are we going to proffer against incest and beastiality, etc? God help us!
Omar Kenyata
Kingston
hardcore.kenyata53@gmail.com
Laws discriminate against wrong
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I have heard a very forceful Dr Carolyn Gomes, formerly of JFJ, referring to the buggery law as discriminatory and that Prof Bain had spoken in support of its retention in Belize.
These laws, as I know it, discriminate between wrong behaviour and right behaviour and apply sanctions to the former.
The issue, therefore, is not about discriminatory laws, but one's view of right or wrong. As long as we are prepared to abandon absolute standards of right and wrong then it is possible for special interests groups to bully the society into submission to their particular vice.
If we accept Gomes' logic then what arguments are we going to proffer against incest and beastiality, etc? God help us!
Omar Kenyata
Kingston
hardcore.kenyata53@gmail.com
Laws discriminate against wrong
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