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AFA JournalHOMOSEXUAL AGENDABritain Forces Caribbean Territories To Accept HomosexualityAFA Journal, January 2001 Edition The British Parliament has ordered its five Caribbean territories to discard their sodomy laws and, in effect, legalize homosexual sex acts. All five island territories--Anguilla, the Cayman Islands, Montserrat, the Turks and Caicos islands, and the Virgin Islands--have strongly Christian populations and are opposed to the demand. Britain has been pressuring the governments of the five territories for the past three years, after it first became evident that Parliament wanted the islands to toe the line on homosexual rights. British officials have said the government's demand is based upon international treaties on human rights, which have been interpreted in such a way as to make homosexuality a protected class--on the same level as race, nationality and gender.One homosexual news source said the sodomy laws violate, among other treaties, the European Convention on Human Rights and the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights. "We simply can't be seen to have territories with laws that violate these agreements," Anguilla's deputy British Governor Roger Cousins told the Associated Press. On the other hand, those opposing Britain's demand to repeal the sodomy laws cite religious objections. In 1999, for example, the government of the Cayman Islands said in an official statement, "We abide by the views of the vast majority of Caymanians who live in a Christian community based on firmly held religious beliefs that homosexuality should not be legalized." Parliament doesn't appear to consider such religious objections valid. Brunel Meade, Monserrat's agriculture minister, said the British order "indicates a high level of disrespect for our rights and our culture. It's the attitude typical of colonialism." The elevation of international law and even international courts as the rationale for Parliament's heavy-handed actions has raised the specter of a once proudly-sovereign British nation voluntarily submitting itself to outside authority. In a similar concession to homosexual activists, for example, Great Britain was forced to end its ban on homosexuality in its military after the European Court of Human Rights said it would otherwise be in violation of international treaties. AP, 11/17/00; PlanetOut, 11/17/00; The Religion & Society Report, 10/00 |
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