Comments on: Gays live – and die – in fear in Jamaica

By: FDC1353

FDC1353 — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 22:25:00 +0000

BOYCOTT JAMAICA!!! That is the message we need to spread to everyone with a conscience. Tell everyone you know, forward this article to them and spread the word to any travel related companies that endorse Jamiaca! If they are going to tolerate such uncivilized behavior, than the Jamiacan Govt should feel it in their pocketbooks. It is the only language anyone understands world wide.

By: Rob Stonehouse

Rob Stonehouse — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 06:22:17 +0000

As secretary of an over sixty’s club,I have just advised my social group to cancel their plans for a trip to Jamaica. so that’s forty seven grand mothers and grandfathers that will spend their money elsewhere.

By: porter

porter — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:53:51 +0000

This news is very disturbing to me. if i am not a child of god then what’s my purpose for living! how can one child of god hate another i will never understand my people for they are poorly misguided !!!

By: JERRY@SARASOTA

JERRY@SARASOTA — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:59:46 +0000

Wow…what a sick and depraved society….cut off all foreign aid and for God’s sake do not promote this Island of hate in any way, shape or form!

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:58:13 +0000

so how do we have three gay resorts there? and yet we show so much outrage and disgust in a blog. congratulations you made a differenc.

By: montrealbren

montrealbren — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:27:00 +0000

R & R: It’s much much worse in Jamaica. Our US televangelists and their ilk could only dream of having a population so ready to resort to violence as Jamaica’s.

I sadly agree with Jay: Jamaica is a lost cause. I would hope that the State Department will follow up its warnings with plenty of asylum visas for gay Jamaicans. Until the international community pressures the Jamaican government on this issue, that government will continue to blame all of the island’s ills on the US and gays.

There are few countries that I’ve been to that I would never go back to. Jamaica is on the top of that list.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:32:03 +0000

““Because it is a homophobic society, there’s such a fear of the sexual implications of having the exam that men won’t seek out help,” said Tulloch, adding Jamaica has a soaring rate of prostate cancer because men won’t be screened.”

So there is hope after all.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:51:52 +0000

Bardot Said: What is it with black people? They scream and yell about prejudice and then inflict it on others.

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You do realize the majority of the Gay people being harrassed in Jamaica are the ones who live there, right? Most of people who live in Jamaica are Black.

The point? Don’t lump me, and all Black people, in with those bigots.

By: Bardot

Bardot — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:35:19 +0000

I’ve had straight friends tell me they hate Jamaica. You can’t go anywhere on the island without being hassled for money.

Boycott! What is it with black people? They scream and yell about prejudice and then inflict it on others.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:26:46 +0000

Speaking of anti-Christian “bigotry” makes no more sense than speaking of anti-white “bigotry,” anti-male “bigotry,” or anti-straight “bigotry.” Christians are no subordinated minority in the West.

As for over-generalizations, the soft anti-gay bigotry of “liberal” American denominations is, theologically, little more gay-affirming than the hard bigotry of evangelicals. Go try to have a same-sex wedding in a United Methodist Church and see what happens. I, frankly, prefer the hateful bigotry of evangelicals to the politely condescending bigotry of “liberal” American denominations. (It’s the kind of polite condescension that dismisses centuries of anti-gay brutalization as mere “bruises.”)

Organized Christianity itself is the shithole, Jonathan.