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UN Wants Jamaica to Abolish 'Buggery' Laws
By Neal Broverman | Posted on Advocate.com November 05, 2011 07:15:00 PM ET
http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2011/11/05/UN_Wants_Jamaica_to_Abolish__Buggery__Laws/ (http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2011/11/05/UN_Wants_Jamaica_to_Abolish__Buggery__Laws/)
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The United Nations' Human Rights Committee wants changes in Jamaica — namely an end to bans on same-sex behavior, as well as new laws that prohibit discrimination against LGBT people.
Is it just me, or does anyone else find it rather offensive that buggary/sodomy/anal sex/whatever are frequently mentioned when referring to homosexuality laws?
Surely, the issue isn't about buggary, it's about basic freedom?
What sort of sexual activites people engage in are a separate matter and if authorities insisit upon being involved in those them that ridicules them.
But persecuting people for having the outragious temerity to fall in love is just silly.