Dear Editor,
It is of the utmost importance that we do our best to influence the Government of Jamaica not to abolish the buggery law. For if it is abolished, this is what will happen in our country:
HIV and AIDS will not be reduced, but will get out of control. In countries where the law forbidding buggery has been removed, statistics show that HIV and AIDS have not been reduced. In the USA, gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM) represent approximately two per cent of the US population, yet are the ones most severely affected by HIV.
In 2010, young gay and bi-sexual men (aged 13-24 years) accounted for 72 per cent of new HIV infections among all persons aged 13 to 24. (See http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/risk/gender/msm/facts/index.html).
France abolished the buggery law in 1791. However, the Lancet Medical Journal (2010) stated that: "In France, HIV transmission disproportionately affects certain risk groups and seems to be out of control in the MSM population." (See http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20832367).
Data from 23 European countries show that the annual number of HIV diagnoses in MSMs has increased by 86 per cent between 2000 and 2006.
The customary ways of controlling the spread of HIV and AIDS among homosexuals will not work. The Lancet Medical Journal points out that "HIV prevention approaches to date have been insufficient to curb epidemics in MSMs. Because of the high biological risks of HIV transmission associated with anal intercourse, the bar for HIV prevention may be higher for MSMs. To date, no single HIV prevention approach is sufficient to control the expansion of HIV epidemics among MSMs.
HIV has disproportionately affected gay men and other MSM since the beginning of the pandemic."
Since the homosexual lifestyle is the number one cause for the rapid spread of HIV and AIDS, the solution to the problem is not the abolition of the buggery law, but that homosexuals give up their lifestyle, come to Jesus Christ for cleansing with His blood, and be given freedom from the addiction to commit homosexuality.
Jesus Christ took the blame and punishment for all the sins that people have committed. He did this when He died on the cross. God also raised Him from the dead on the third day so that people may not only be forgiven of whatever sins they have committed, but also may be set free from the power or control that sin tries to have over them.
What you need to do is to be sorry for whatever sins that you have done; decide to give up the sins; put your faith in the blood of Jesus Christ to wash you clean and to make you a new person in the way that you think, feel, speak and act; confess Jesus Christ to be your Lord, that is, to be your Master, the One who is in charge of your whole life from now onwards; and be joined to Jesus Christ in a spiritual union through baptism into His death, burial and resurrection from the dead.
Leslie Joseph Buckland Jr
joe_buckland@yahoo.com
If we abolish the buggery law...
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It is of the utmost importance that we do our best to influence the Government of Jamaica not to abolish the buggery law. For if it is abolished, this is what will happen in our country:
HIV and AIDS will not be reduced, but will get out of control. In countries where the law forbidding buggery has been removed, statistics show that HIV and AIDS have not been reduced. In the USA, gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM) represent approximately two per cent of the US population, yet are the ones most severely affected by HIV.
In 2010, young gay and bi-sexual men (aged 13-24 years) accounted for 72 per cent of new HIV infections among all persons aged 13 to 24. (See http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/risk/gender/msm/facts/index.html).
France abolished the buggery law in 1791. However, the Lancet Medical Journal (2010) stated that: "In France, HIV transmission disproportionately affects certain risk groups and seems to be out of control in the MSM population." (See http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20832367).
Data from 23 European countries show that the annual number of HIV diagnoses in MSMs has increased by 86 per cent between 2000 and 2006.
The customary ways of controlling the spread of HIV and AIDS among homosexuals will not work. The Lancet Medical Journal points out that "HIV prevention approaches to date have been insufficient to curb epidemics in MSMs. Because of the high biological risks of HIV transmission associated with anal intercourse, the bar for HIV prevention may be higher for MSMs. To date, no single HIV prevention approach is sufficient to control the expansion of HIV epidemics among MSMs.
HIV has disproportionately affected gay men and other MSM since the beginning of the pandemic."
Since the homosexual lifestyle is the number one cause for the rapid spread of HIV and AIDS, the solution to the problem is not the abolition of the buggery law, but that homosexuals give up their lifestyle, come to Jesus Christ for cleansing with His blood, and be given freedom from the addiction to commit homosexuality.
Jesus Christ took the blame and punishment for all the sins that people have committed. He did this when He died on the cross. God also raised Him from the dead on the third day so that people may not only be forgiven of whatever sins they have committed, but also may be set free from the power or control that sin tries to have over them.
What you need to do is to be sorry for whatever sins that you have done; decide to give up the sins; put your faith in the blood of Jesus Christ to wash you clean and to make you a new person in the way that you think, feel, speak and act; confess Jesus Christ to be your Lord, that is, to be your Master, the One who is in charge of your whole life from now onwards; and be joined to Jesus Christ in a spiritual union through baptism into His death, burial and resurrection from the dead.
Leslie Joseph Buckland Jr
joe_buckland@yahoo.com
If we abolish the buggery law...
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