The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR), on Wednesday, issued its ruling on Section 76 – 79 of Jamaica’s 1864 Offenses Against the Person Act. Categorised under “Unnatural Crime“, Proof of ‘Carnal Knowledge’, and ‘Outrages of Decency’, the colonial-era law condemns violators to up to 10 years imprisonment, which may include hard labour. The ruling…
Pastor Steven Anderson won’t be heading to Jamaica anytime soon. The anti-gay preacher who pastors at the Faithful Word Baptist Church in Arizona (listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center) has been banned from the country following a petition started by LGBT activists in Jamaica to prevent him from coming into the…
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