THE EDITOR, Sir:
I TAKE issue with the inane views expressed by Pandora in his column published on Friday, June 18. While expressing his regret at the brutal murder of Brian Williamson, he nevertheless hopes that "our leaders have the sense to avoid enacting laws to benefit them (homosexuals)."
Interestingly, Pandora does not realise his own contradiction wherein he rightly states that life is about choices, yet he supports the law criminalising homosexuality which to my mind, is a gross violation of one's right to choose one's sexual lifestyle.
Indeed, such a law which makes it a crime for two consenting adult males to indulge in sex, is unnecessary and archaic as such acts performed in the privacy of one's bedroom are not a threat in anyway to the good order of society, in the same way that heterosexual acts in private are not a threat to law and order. In short, the law criminalising homosexual acts, diminishes, if not negates the element of choice on the part of homosexuals as it prescribes and imposes punishment of those making such choices. Seen in this light, the law is highly unjust.
Secondly, he fails to realise that such a law criminalising homosexual acts only helps to create a climate of hate and intolerance which gives rise to brutally violent acts of murder as I believe occurred in the brutal stabbing of Brian Williamson, among other such murders.
Thirdly, those who condemn homosexuality on the grounds that such acts are immoral, need to realise that it is not practical to legislate morality, hence such a law as we have in Jamaica, is an exercise in futility which should never have been enacted.
I am, etc.,
GEORGE MCGRATH
