Dear Editor,

Jamaica’s Minister of Justice Delroy Chuck made a presentation in Parliament last month where he said that Parliament must find a way, regardless of the consequences, to remove the country’s buggery law.The obvious interpretation of Minister Chuck’s statement is that he wants the buggery law removed at the expense of any and all the emanating consequences. Can the justice minister explain why he wants the society to sustain whatever consequences visited upon us in order to legitimise buggery, which largely goes undetected by his own law enforcement agencies anyway?In his address, the minister takes issue with the church, citing its great influence on society. It therefore seems to me that a better option for the minister, rather than preferring such consequences of which he spoke, is that he could set up committees which would be specifically charged to water down the influence of the church in preference to indiscriminate consequences. Admittedly, going this route would take time, but it would save us these frightful sounds.By his utterances, there appears to be a fundamental misdirection of the minister’s discomfort since the church’s championing of the retention of the buggery law is totally second-hand to God’s.It seems that your argument is with God, minister.I remember the former minister of education being outspoken on this issue and maybe the current minister will be even more outspoken. 

Derrick D Simon

Camp David Golden Spring

Box 2542 Kingston 8

derrickdsimon@yahoo.cxom