August 5, 2025
The ruling in the Eastern Caribbean Court for the recent set of homosexual rights challenges serves as a reminder as times change, so do our sensitivities towards things like homosexual relationships.
Gone are the days where homosexuals are fought and accosted because of their sexual preference.
While homosexual acts are seen as an abomination in Judeo-Christian circles, what is an even greater abomination is the condemnation and sustained persecution of the perceived sinner. We need to learn to love one another more intensively.
The walls keep falling down around the Caribbean in regard to the lack of tolerance for homosexuals. We had a series of rulings from Antigua, Barbados, Dominica and now in St Lucia, where the court found that the laws criminalizing sexual acts between two same people are unconstitutional.
Let us remember, this has nothing to do with what we personally believe is right or wrong based on our religious or social preferences, just that the law that criminalizes homosexual acts are against the constitution of the jurisdiction. We hope people would be able to live with that because at the end of the day, who you choose to sleep with or how you choose to conduct yourself personally is no one’s business but your own.
This magazine is not pro-gay rights, and we won’t give the impression that we are or ever will be. But we understand the tolerance and fundamental rights of everyone under the constitution. And until it changes, the courts in the Caribbean most likely will continue to expand the rights of all people.