THE EDITOR, Sir:
STEPHEN VASCIANNIE states that if you have a Charter of Rights, there would be no compulsion to change Jamaican law simply to accommodate the U.N. Declaration on Human Rights.
Try telling the people of Tasmania that!
They were threatened with being taken to the U.N. on the issue of legalising homosexuality.
The Government, rather than face the expense of such a challenge, capitulated.
Tasmania was Australia's most conservative state. It is now, within a few short years, the gay law capital of Australia.
Homosexuals now even have 'civil union' (marriage) rights.
If the people of Jamaica want it to become a homosexual mecca, pass the Charter of Rights. If you don't, then don't give your judiciary any more power.
Keep it in the hands of your elected representatives so that you can sack them when they start supporting 'gay rights'.
I am, etc.,
PETER STOKES
perter@saltshakers.org.au
Melbourne, Victoria
Australia
Via Go-Jamaica
