{"id":61914,"date":"2017-07-28T17:10:27","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T21:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=61914"},"modified":"2017-07-28T17:44:27","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T21:44:27","slug":"head-of-jamaica-anglican-church-calls-for-decriminalising-of-same-sex-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=61914","title":{"rendered":"Head of Jamaica Anglican church calls for the decriminalising of same sex relations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gregory said Christians should be cautioned against believing in the view that they must be the gatekeepers of the law against buggery in order to prevent the legalisation of same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis submission does not accept the cause and effect relationship which is being introduced into this matter, neither is it advocating homosexual marriages,\u201d he said&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Section 61 of the Offences against the Person Act of 1864 criminalises the \u2018abominable\u2019 anal sex \u2013 consensual or otherwise. The maximum punishment is 10 years\u2019 imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p>But Gregory argued: \u201cSexual activity engaged in public spaces is illegal and should continue to be so, whether of an heterosexual or homosexual nature.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stabroeknews.com\/2017\/news\/regional\/07\/24\/head-of-jamaica-anglican-church-calls-for-decriminalising-of-gay-sex\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>I will take comments on this submitted by email only to KSHarmon[at]mindspring[dot]com<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gregory said Christians should be cautioned against believing in the view that they must be the gatekeepers of the law against buggery in order to prevent the legalisation of same-sex marriage. \u201cThis submission does not accept the cause and effect<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=61914\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,168,621,114,177,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-latest-news","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-jamaica","category-law-legal-issues","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61914"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61918,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61914\/revisions\/61918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}