Where is the justice, Mr Golding?

THE EDITOR, Sir:

On Tuesday, I attended a public forum at which Minister of Justice Mark Golding indicated his intention to initiate a review, in 2014, of Jamaica's laws pertaining to sexual conduct, so as to introduce in his country, 'modern principles of morality', removing laws from what he called an 'oppressive [past] era' in which persons faced discrimination on the basis of 'race, creed, and class'.

He also noted that, although the majority of Jamaicans did not approve of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender behaviour, and that the review would be controversial, his Government was interested in advancing the interests of a sexual minority.

But isn't forcing unwanted laws and behaviour on the majority of a population an act of oppression? Where is the justice in that move, Minister Golding? Is there a plan to make this administration no different from the imperialistic pre-1962 political administrators?

Is this what their founder Norman Washington Manley fought for when he sought Jamaica's independence from foreign powers? To whom is Minister Golding really accountable? Is it foreigners, a minority group, or the majority who democratically elected him and his party into power?

Philippa Davies