MiriDom questions rejection of consensual buggery by committee examining Sexual Offenses Act

miridomCoordinator of local group, Minority Rights Dominica (MiriDom), Daryl Phillip has reacted to the denial of a recommendation to have consensual buggery among adults legalized in Dominica.

“What is the reason for it? I mean, is there really a reason why they rejected it?” he asked.

Recently a committee was set up, headed by Legal Consultant, Ray Harris, to review the Sexual Offenses Act of 1998 and make observations and recommendations to have it amended.

A suggestion to legalize consensual buggery among adult was submitted to the committee, however, it was denied.

MiriDom, which has been calling on the government to repeal sections of the Act that make consensual buggery illegal, wants to know why the suggestion was denied.

“Why they would still keep buggery, whether between man and woman or man and man on the books of the laws of Dominica…it’s nothing that anybody could do about it,” Phillip said on privately-owned Q-95’s The Hot Seat on Thursday. “Even if they rejected it, that doesn’t mean that people still wouldn’t have their natural sexual urges that they would like to exercise, so it’s not like because a committee says something that everything is just going to go away.”

He added, “So you put the law and you don’t put the law against consenting adults that are having an affair in the privacy of their home. Are you going to break down their door to come in to see them doing it? Will one of them complain to say you forced yourself on me? Or is it just a fuel to encourage people to try to blackmail others.”

He stated that the law impedes on people’s rights to sexual freedom, which he said is a human right.

He added that members of MiriDom are getting tired of all the “unreasoned arguments” on the matter.

“And some people think that we are just not ready as a society to discuss this,” Phillip noted.

He said MiriDom awaits “reasoning” from the committee as to why consensual buggery among adults in Dominica buggery has been rejected.

“It is because the bible say so?” he asked. “The bible says a lot of different things and it is not in the laws of Dominica …..”

The government has made it clear that buggery will never be legalized in Dominica.

In 2013, Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit said that buggery laws on the books will not be repealed pointing out that he has not heard any ‘compelling’ argument to support such move. In 2014, he also made it clear that same-sex marriages will not be accepted by his government, pointing out that “certain guiding principles” must be followed in that matter.

MiriDoM has always said that sections of the Sexual Offenses Act discriminates against people because of their sexual preferences,” noting that everybody should be treated equally.

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106 Comments

  1. Simon
    March 22, 2016

    Angels are gay, and they live in heaven.
    Dominica is heaven on earth, so of course we should welcome gays!

    But srsly… Why on earth should the government EVER be allowed to have a say on how people live their life without hurting anyone? And if YOU get offended by a fellow human for who they are, be it obese, kalinago, gay, or just different from you in some way, then YOU’RE the problem, who got a serious ethics and attitude problem, and should be stached away for everyones best.

  2. Tony Kapone
    March 18, 2016

    Why buggery should be legal
    ===================

    I was travelling from Massacre to Portsmouth the other day with a friend who was a known buggerer. I was not worried at all because I knew that is he tried it on, there would be serious criminal consequences for him and he knew that.

    However, being the driver, my lack of concern about this, did made me sleepy and at one time, halfway through the journey, I had to stop to take a brief walk to get me alert again.

    Now, if buggery had been legal, the concern about my passenger trying it on (and possibly succeeding with the result of my manhood being injured beyond repair), would have kept me awake and alert in order to make my destination in record time without a break.

    I know this sounds frivolous, but time is money these days and anything that can be done to help us save time, should be.

  3. REALISTIC
    March 13, 2016

    Miridom do what you do in the privacy of your home. That´s between you, your partner and God the rest of us are not interested so please don’t shove it in our faces. We have enough dealing with….like the rapists in high place., We need to concentrate on our youths…..ok. Don´t be selfish.

  4. Jessie Lewis, RGN
    March 11, 2016

    Another thing. Very few who practice the art of buggery suffer from constipation. Another factor to appreciate for the liberalisation of this art form.

    • GALILEO GALILEI
      March 11, 2016

      Jessie Lewis it is clear you are the lady in your homosexual relationship, you do all the taking,

      you life so so much easier now nuh-tru, because you no longer have to suffer from constipation

      you can now focus on more important things

  5. Jessie Lewis, RGN
    March 11, 2016

    Why the government is lying about buggery!

    1) You can’t break the law to uphold the law. The various human rights UN treaties – notably the Vienna Treaty – (which are part of our constitution) to which Dominica has signed up to provide that it is illegal to discriminate against minorities. Gays are minorities and to practice as homosexuals, they need to bugger. It’s as simple as that. So to deny them buggery is not only illegal, but it is unconstitutional and any statute prohibiting is is void;

    2) Homosexuals in Dominica should happily bugger away and when challenged, take the government to court citing the un-constitutionality of Dominican laws that prohibit this activity which is supported by the legal provisions of the UN human rights treaties to which Dominica is a signatory.

    • Jessie Lewis, RGN
      March 11, 2016

      Buggery Protection in Dominica
      ——————————

      UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (eg., homosexuals). Dominica ratification: 30th March 207. The Treaty is concerned with .. the difficult conditions faced by persons with disabilities who are subject to multiple or aggravated forms of discrimination on the basis of race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national, ethnic, indigenous or social origin, property, birth, age or other status…

      Art. 1 – Purpose: … to promote, protect and ensure the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by all persons with disabilities, and to promote respect for their inherent dignity. Persons with disabilities include those who have long-term physical, mental, intellectual or sensory impairments which in interaction with various barriers may hinder their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others.

    • Face the Facts
      March 13, 2016

      They call themselves minorities to suit their lifestyle. They are no minorities.
      God will hold those governments that legalize this abomination accountable. They have set an evil precedent for the world and contaminate the minds of children to accept this abomination and say it is OK. It is not OK and by no means in the eyes of God. This pertains to those who approve and support them.

  6. me
    March 11, 2016

    THIS IS THE SOLUTION

    I bet when adults are free (legally) to have sex with whoever they want, the number of child sex abuse cases will be reduced.

    Legalize prostitution too one time

    • Leah Remy
      March 11, 2016

      nonsense you talking.
      PEDOPHILES want kids, not big women and prostitutes.

      • Dr. Verus Kerm, PhD (originally from Mahaut)
        March 15, 2016

        Dominican citizens in the UAE can legally have sex with kids at any age – courtesy of the Dominica Citizen by Investment Program!

    • Face the Facts
      March 13, 2016

      People are free to do as they please. No one is harnessing them. They are already doing what they want according to their whims and wiles.
      God gave everyone a free mind and will. It is this same free mind and will which will either save them or condemn them, according to their lifestyle.
      Think of yourself dying and then standing before God for your judgment as a homosexual, a lesbian or a prostitute, having practiced it throughout your lifestyle with no regret and remorse. Just think where you will end up in eternity.

  7. tj
    March 11, 2016

    With all the problems we are having today in DA is sex among consenting adults anyone business. Protect the small children being molested by adults

    • Face the Facts
      March 13, 2016

      You should know who brought it up. See the heading of this article.

  8. Calibishie Warrior
    March 11, 2016

    The one thing (the most important thing for me) that no one has mentioned in these comments (or even MiriDom) is that continued criminalisation of consensual homosexual practice discourages people from seeking testing for HIV and AIDS. If the unjustified demonisation of adult men in same sex relationships continue it has the effect of slowing down the fight against this disease especially as some of them practice bisexuality to try to hide their homosexuality. Let these guys be open so that those who need help can get it safely and lessen the danger to the rest of us.

    • Dante Jones
      March 11, 2016

      That’s what these idiots don’t understand. You can’t change someone’s nature no matter how you try. By forcing people to hide their nature you just create more problems. That’s why there’s such a high rate of teenage pregnancy and abortions among religious communities. Religion puts this big taboo on sex so much so that some parents are embarrassed to discuss it with their children and instead try to hide and shield them from it.

    • nation building
      March 13, 2016

      If you do have the scientific evidence I will support you fully. HIV/STI information is placed out there for everyone, whether your sexual preference is suppressed by society or not. I work in a country where there is no law against homosexuality/buggery… people are very open about it…..and the incidence of HIV is still very high. I also work with HIV patients, and I tell you the fact that buggery is not illegal doesn´t change the fact that more people are still being diagnosed with the disease. IT IS ALL ABOUT RISK, AND NOT SEXUAL PREFERENCE, HOMOSEXUALS ARE STILL HAVING UN PROTECTED SEX, MULTIPLE PARTNERS AND ROUGH SEX. This is what drives the HIV epidemic, RISKY BEHAVIOUR, and not sexual orientation. I can provide the figures to support my statements or just google scientific papers re the Driving Force or Determinants of the HIV Epidemic. Now unless you can show otherwise your statement has no grounds.

    • Face the Facts
      March 13, 2016

      Some of you tend to blame others for your sins and negligence. You are having fun and do not want to listen to what is truthful. Leave us alone. Do not bring us into it.
      People contract this disease because of their intrinsic lifestyle. Do not expect others to get involved in it.
      If innocent people contract it through such people, then the proper authorities could get involved. In fact, those who spread it to others should be sued and punished.

  9. native &fair
    March 11, 2016

    Are we really serious, just look at how AIDS spread so quickly around the world, have we forgotten how it started, for those with short memory may i remind you that it started with gay people, this is activity is one of the fastest spreading methods of sexually transmitted disease, because of these peoples nastiness, since you are so bold why not go to Ugandan and lay your claim

  10. Sams Gutter
    March 11, 2016

    How much macko any auntie man that Dominica have. When I was growing we knew all of them in Lagoor and other parts of Dominica. We known those macomere that use to fix bicycle and those that use to make souse in Roseau. The point I am making is that it is totally asinine when I read comments suggesting that change to the buggery laws will cause gays to flock to Dominica. Those laws have been repealed in most countries, Gay marriage is the law of the land in most countries. Believe it or not I do not subscribe to the gay lifestyle. I just don’t think LGBT persons should be discriminated against.

  11. Face the Facts
    March 11, 2016

    You need to think God. You have swayed far from God. Were you not a practicing Christian and a Catholic at that? Most people were Catholics in those days.
    The Bible is the word of God. We are obligated to obey. If we fail to, woe to us.
    Buggery is an abomination. What you do in your bedroom only God knows. What you do in public, everyone knows and it creates a scandal and a bad example for the youths.
    What do you want to have in public, an orgy?
    You have your rights, in your home. This is good enough for you.
    God is higher than the Laws of any country. You know what God did to Sodom and Gomorrah. It is in the Holy Bible; not fiction. People as you will bring down the wrath of God upon the earth, sooner than He planned.
    Your action is an abomination to the Lord.
    You really want to bring down Dominica and other nationals with you to the abyss.
    Because other countries have legalized this abomination, you want it legalized in our little D/ca? God forbid!

  12. March 10, 2016

    The Word of God forbids homosexuality.

    We encourage you to read the following scriptures:

    Leviticus 18:22
    Roman 1:26,27
    1 Corinthians 6:9,10
    1 Timothy 1:9,10
    Genesis 19:1-25 with Jude vs.7

    For 2,000 years the Christian church has taught that homosexuality is a sin based upon these scriptures.

    It is not for religious reasons alone we oppose homosexuality. It is an unhealthy life style.

    Homosexuals have the highest percentage of HIV/AIDS cases of any people group and are the ones most responsible for spreading HIV/AIDS.

    Homosexuals have more mental health issues than heterosexuals. They suffer more from depression, and have a higher rate of alcoholism. With no flesh and blood family of their own they suffer more from loneliness in their senior years. They have a higher suicide rate, and a shorter life span.

    I could give you more information but I hope this will be enough to encourage you to search out the facts.

    Sincerely, Rev. Donald Hill. Evangelist.

  13. I doh like hungry gut people
    March 10, 2016

    And Daryl just to assist you a bit because I see you need some serious help. Here goes: From one of my favourite doctors on island:

    “Where function, capabilities and expectable roles are concerned, nothing speaks louder in the world of biology than anatomy. If you wish to know the functional purpose and capabilities of any specie …. animal or plant, …..male or female within a particular eco-sociology
    …. take time before all else, to study the anatomy:

    the anatomy of your object of inquiry;
    ….the true answers must come rushing.
    ….and anything else will be little beyond propaganda.”

    • Face the Facts
      March 11, 2016

      Animals look for their likes of their opposite sex to conduct a relationship with and to have their babies.
      Some members of humanity do not. In this case, although they are higher than the animals, they act worst than these animals. How sad for people with knowledge and intelligence which God gave them.

  14. Dante Jones
    March 10, 2016

    Haha the funny thing is that the law also prohibits anal sex between a man and a woman. Nuff fellas in d/a in dat now I hear and nuff girls too. Just give it time man soon things will turn over. Dominica always last kakarat in anything progressive so we have to wait some time for us to catch up to the rest of the civilized world.

    • Face the Facts
      March 11, 2016

      Whatever people do in the confines of their home is their business. The judgment is between God and them who will reward people according to their actions.
      The problem with these people is they want to force everyone in the world to agree with them. They will always meet with opposition for their action is intrinsically evil and is against the Law of God and of Nature. It is too bad they refuse to accept it. One day their error will be exposed to them.

      • Dante Jones
        March 11, 2016

        All they are asking for is to have the same rights as everyone else. That’s it. They are not trying to force anything on anyone. The only people trying to force anything on anybody are the religious bullies who feel that their stone age texts somehow have enough authority to take away people’s rights.

      • Face the Facts
        March 13, 2016

        For God’s sake! They have no right to be recognized as a couple and to get married. They are of the same sex. The godly and sane people should know that.

    • Intellegence
      March 11, 2016

      you Dante Jones could not be happier discussing buggery, even anticipating the day when Dominica could catch up to the rest of the world

      ewwwwwww so nasty

      • Dante Jones
        March 11, 2016

        Nah I just enjoy laughing at retards like you who sit around waiting for every news report that even so much as mentions any thing to do with homosexuality. It’s crazy that you people dislike something so much yet you jump at every chance you get to discuss it.

      • Face the Facts
        March 13, 2016

        That will be the day when Dominica recognizes that.
        Tell them we have a right and reasons to voice our opinion against this abomination since they brought it out in the public arena.
        I have previously stated, when more countries approve this abomination which highly offends God, watch out for the fire and brimstone or whatever other disaster. It is bad enough already.

  15. giving
    March 10, 2016

    examine yourself completely and see for e.g your sins, your bad habits, your attitude, the way you treat people, then see if you are not just another human same like the gay man or woman the only difference is their sexual preference. so do you think it is worth treating as criminals. the next thing i have to say ” according to people who thinks its a crime for a gay man to exercise his sexual preference ” lets understand something here they say that sex is suppose to be between a man and a woman with penis and Virgina and not penis and backside THEN blow jobs should be a crime also because is a form of sex that does not involve Virgina.

    • Face the Facts
      March 11, 2016

      You must be a godless person.

  16. March 10, 2016

    buggery is not sex period it is buggery. do what you want and don’t ask all to follow you nasty man

  17. March 10, 2016

    It looks like the guys in MiriDom find they are to free so we need to start a civil disobedience against them

  18. Concern
    March 10, 2016

    I wonder what else has to happen in Dominica for our eyes to be opened.

    • Face the Facts
      March 11, 2016

      About what? Explain yourself.

  19. Ask in the same boat
    March 10, 2016

    Just because a person feel like doing something does not mean that they should. I I feel to steal, kill, rape, have sex with a minor does not mean I should. The urge might be present, weather it is natural or unnatural does not justify doing the acts. A woman marries a dog, a man has sec with a 3 year old, 2 consenting male adults engage in Sodomy and all claim that their feeling is strong, natural and cannot be helped, even God made them that way, but wrong is still wrong. Learn some self control, practice restrain, stop being selfish and chasing after gratification of the flash. Take your mind out of the gutter and put that energy towards your soul salvation.

    • Donkey
      March 11, 2016

      What an idiotic comment. Consensual sex is not the same as non-consensual sex (sex with a minor, sex with a dog, rape, etc., going with your examples), and it has no relation to stealing or killing. Dominicans who post in these threads often show no ability to craft logical statements.

    • Calibishie Warrior
      March 11, 2016

      Consent … consent… consent … get that concept straight in your head and your confusion will be cleared up straight away ..

    • People like YOU
      March 11, 2016

      I think that you should spend more time on your grammar than on the issues of MiriDom. Thank you, and good night.

      PS. I hope you not trying to pray the gay away from any of your family members; damn hypocrite!

      • GALILEO GALILEI
        March 11, 2016

        you should pray the gay away from your own self dame sodomite

  20. way papa
    March 10, 2016

    The law impedes sexual freedom for undesirable actions such as incest, sex with a minor, bestiality and buggery too.

    • Calibishie Warrior
      March 11, 2016

      sex with a minor and bestiality are undesirable because (and only because) it infringes on the rights entities who cannot defend themselves and cannot give consent as to what is happening to them. Incest is medically (genetically) dangerous.. Come up with a similar argument (with does not involve religion .. becaus e the law has to apply to non belivers as well as believers) .. and you can then be taken seriously ..

  21. way papa
    March 10, 2016

    Laws are put in place to control certain behaviors like incest, bestiality, buggery etc…so mister you are saying whether or not you have the law people will still do buggery in the privacy of their homes. So why should you worry about the law? Nobody is going to arrest buggers there. But sex between adult males is not illegal yet still people blackmail each other all the time. So what is your point about encouraging blackmailing. Re your statement about laws impeding on sexual freedom to bugger. The law does the same for the sexual freedom to rape, have unlawful intercourse with a minor, for doing bestiality. And lastly the Bible is key in guiding what is considered to be wrong or right. Buggery is one of those wrong things just like murder, stealing etc..so you do not have a compelling argument sir.

    • Calibishie Warrior
      March 11, 2016

      1. you clearly do not understand to concept of consent as it applies to sexual behavior (you probably think it is ok for a man to rape his wife)
      2. As a committed Christian who has Jesus as his personal savior I can tell you categorically the the Bible is NOT the key as to guiding behaviour with respect to the laws of the land. There are people (and this might shock you .. so sit down) who live in this land who are not Christians or who say they are Christians and are not really … the law should not apply to them? or do they have to subject themselves to our belief just to live here legally?

  22. uh huh
    March 10, 2016

    Legalise consensual Buggery? next thing i go glo sho and seeing 2 man doing that no shame cuz it legal? smfh

    • Calibishie Warrior
      March 11, 2016

      When is the last time you go glo sho and see a man and a woman ‘doing it no shame cuz it legal’ ? If you did you witnessed a crime of indecent exposure or committing a lewd act in public and I hope you reported it to the authorities. Hypocrite!

    • People like YOU
      March 11, 2016

      and if you see a heterosexual couple doing it, it’s just fine? Hol’ Your murr eh

  23. Concern citizen
    March 10, 2016

    I agree with the government to rejected such request, they have to protect the children and young adults that vulnerable, given such rights there would be no protection for the vulnerable.

    • TouristWalkingPassRubbishInTown
      March 10, 2016

      Protect the children and young adults? Ha! That’s rather funny when our own government officials and parliamentary representatives are the ones preying on our children! Talk about hypocrisy!

      • Intellegence
        March 11, 2016

        the issue is Homosexuality here, wonder what would you say to your eight year old son who saw two men kissing

    • Donkey
      March 10, 2016

      What does consensual buggery have to do with children? Children cannot legally give consent to any sexual activity, for one, and secondly, this law is about consenting ADULTS who love other ADULTS. It is not about paedophiles. More Dominican ignorance that makes me ashamed to be from this island.

      • Face the Facts
        March 11, 2016

        No one is preventing them. Why do they want it legalized?

  24. Weeds
    March 10, 2016

    Why not legalize weed instead

  25. Dan is de man in de van
    March 10, 2016

    Daryl I do understand your frustration and that of your members but my dear Dominicans are not ready for this type of activities openly and u have to abide by this. We are not ready to openly and happily accept these types of behavior which is still taboo and will remain taboo to us. … So in the confines of your home you can do whatever you want just don’t do it in Dominica public.save your self and your friends from a very vicious beating…. God bless you.

    • Shameless
      March 10, 2016

      Tank you, tell him again PLEASEEEEE! :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

      Always Assertive! :twisted: :twisted:

      • Calibishie Warrior
        March 11, 2016

        so because Dominicans in their archaic mentality are not ready for everybody to be treated equally … some must wait indefinitely and be unjustly criminalised? that is rubbish .. and the brother should not stand for it .. and right thinking people everywhere will stand with him

  26. FBI Agent
    March 10, 2016

    I will respond to this thing later. To me it is just a distraction when we have so many more important issues to deal with as it relates to our minors that are being sexually abused by big grown men.

    DNO, it is in this light I am once again posting my question to the Hon. PM, which you have failed to post five times.

    I am calling on the Hon. Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit, to condemn any attempt (s) by anyone, who made calls to the USA to offer $500K hush-hush money, to family members whose young girl may have been sexually abused by Big grown men. All I want the PM to say is, I condemn such practice and if anyone can bring any evidence, I as Prime Minister of Dominica will do ALL that I can, to ensure this thing is properly investigated. DNO, I am not implicating anyone; I just need the PM to condemn it

  27. hjchang
    March 10, 2016

    Dear Mr. Phillip,

    I fully support your motion and its the act of bravery to stand up against tyranny of brainless majority. After all, its the fundamental value of any human being to choose who to love and how to love.
    Please don’t pay attention to various antediluvian reverends with 2000 years old books their hands, hankering after power and justifying any heinous atrocities in the name of god.
    Keep fighting and you will stop this injustice one day.
    It may seem that your voices aren’t heard and all your efforts are drops in a ocean, but let me quote: “What is any ocean but a multitude of drops?”

    • Viewsexpressed
      March 10, 2016

      You are out line sir, really. Bestiality is in the books too, you want it thrown out too? It got in the law books sometime ago for a reason, because people were behaving nasty.
      Tyranny and brainless majority. The Eyes,,,,,,,ayes,,,have it. Antediluvian eh…? Well it is the past and the good ole days that have us here today….do ot antiquate us more please.

      • Donkey
        March 10, 2016

        What does bestiality have to do with consensual sex? Why do people always bring up these foolish slippery-slope fallacies as arguments? Animals (aside from humans) cannot give consent (and, yes, humans are animals–evolution. Look it up). And as for your argument about the past? You know what ‘past’ brought the bible to your ancestors? Slavery. Pretty nice past, huh? I’m sure you’d be perfectly happy returning there, given how enslaved your mind is in the present to the coloniser’s religion.

    • LAC
      March 10, 2016

      18The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.

      21For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.

      24Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and…

      • LAC
        March 10, 2016

        God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.

        26Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

        28Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. 29They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. 32Although they know…

      • LAC
        March 10, 2016

        32Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

      • hjchang
        March 11, 2016

        relax bro…better take some Prozac or just chamomile tea if you prefer natural, because it helps to reduce your religious hallucinations.
        Your god always justifies all cruelties and atrocities committed by ‘true believers’. Why?
        I presume conquistadors which raped and plundered entire continent and created genocide against indigenous people, all of them quoted bible. Ask what Aztec and Mayans thought about your religion?
        Good christians enslaved africans and wrecked havos in Africa….of course with full acceptance of Rome and of course god advised them to do so. Your god approves everything: concentration camps, shelling of civilians, rapes …everything. Hitler knew it!
        Maybe its time to forget your angry and cruel god and start to value more important things like 1) human life 2) health 3) freedom to love and be loved
        That’s the real values, which will be universal for entire humankind. Your god will be forgotten as it happened many time before..Zeus, Ra, Anshar, Alator…

    • Intellegence
      March 11, 2016

      Brainless majority he calls us,
      so i guess those who want to F… animals and children are among the super intellectual minority

      • Intellegence
        March 11, 2016

        I find the fact that this guy’s comment has more likes than dislikes is disturbing

      • hjchang
        March 11, 2016

        minorities rights do not equal to “F… animals and children”. Its utterly nonsense even to compare it. Majority is brainless because it cant critical reason arguments and believe in everything its told to believe. If your son is homosexual, will you stop loving him as father? If you happened to be born guy, would you expect your parents to denounce you because of your inclinations?

  28. Leave the Can of Worms alone
    March 10, 2016

    the sick mentality is that whatever adults do with consent of each other in privacy of their homes…. should not be prosecuted…
    there’s many things that can be applied to
    -marijuana
    -cult like rituals that lead to death
    -black market organ transplant..

  29. Shaka Zulu
    March 10, 2016

    I love women, grown women and what God gave them for reproduction. Sex between to adult individuals of the same gender is sinful according to the bible. So is adultery, fornication, lying, lust, jealousy, gluttony, and the list of other sins that do not infringe on the rights of others. Why are they not on the books. Keeping buggery illegal does not stop the act and we all know lots of prominent folks who are involved. Hypocrisy!!!! God alone judges and men a free to do what they want unless it dies not infringe on the rights of others. Guess the CDPF should set up a buggery unit to go catch those criminals in the act. You cannot enforce this law, nor does it affect or has ever affected our society and to date I do not know any adult who has been arrested. Waste of time.

    • FORKIT
      March 10, 2016

      i thing you are as gay as they come. but your try and mislead by saying you love women and bla bla bla,,,
      you also forgot to mension that god cal buggery an abominable sin and he destroyed a whole city because of it….
      stop trying and spead allu nastinesss in a morally fustrated country that is on an already moral decline.

      • Shaka Zulu
        March 10, 2016

        Lol. You are free to think what you want. The only reason Dominica having this debate is because it is a sick pervated country that only can think about sex. That is why they have so many molestations, and other crap in this place. Men in Dominica take , kids, ole women, animals and each other. I agree with your comment it’s on a moral decline. Morality is not controlled by laws, but by individual conscience and judged by only God. In other words there are more important things that the government should fix than who people having sex. While some men are into buggery, some are into adultry, fornicaton, and other sins. Let’s check our conscience and fix our lives. Yes you saw it above I love women. What other people do is thier business.

      • March 11, 2016

        Every act forbidden by God is a sin.

        The more serious sins are also forbidden by the law of the nation and you can be penalized for doing these things.

        Some sexual behavior is sinful in the sight of God but not illegal according to the nation’s laws.
        Fornication and adultery are sins in God’s sight but your nation has no laws against them. They are sins but not crimes. So you are asking why homosexuality is illegal? Let me tell you why.

        Unfortunately fornication and adultery are so common the police would have no way of knowing who was committing these sins, where, or when. There are not enough police to enforced laws against these sins. Added to this the prisons could not accommodate these people.

        However, there is another reason. Homosexuality is in a category by itself apart from fornication and adultery.

  30. smdh
    March 10, 2016

    All you just want to borgah wi, and fence. it is wrong! what you questioning again? more and more mainstream media and broadcast programming stations (their “programs” are broadcasted – mind control and sensitization) who are most likely owned by gays are pushing their agenda to make people more accepting. NO BULLING WHAT SO EVER MIRIDOM! All you doesnt hear?? STOP THE NASTINESS!

    • Donkey
      March 10, 2016

      Can you give one convincing argument that it is ‘wrong?’ And I am not religious, so quoting the bible does not count, for me, as an argument, unless you can prove that I have any reason at all to believe anything in the bible.

      • Imperial prince
        March 11, 2016

        Nothing needs to be proven to you,the fact that you are so adamant on excluding the Bible tells me you only try to convince your self that it is irrelevant because its convieninent to you,sadly not believing does not dismiss its authenticity. My country like all the so called Christian Nations might be bias as to what they condone and rebuke but that is no excuse to accept what our faith deems an abomination, its funny smart ppl shoot down an ancient library that transcends millenias but pick up the books of those written in the last few centuries and decades. On what basis is buggery acceptable, who or what convinced you? Where did this info originate?

      • Anonymous
        March 11, 2016

        Yes I can. Human faeces contain trillions of bacteria including those that cause disease and death eg typhoid fever. If a person has parasites eg worms, protozoans they will also be in there. It’s not a playground, period. It’s nasty and that’s why nature made it smell like an alarm to let us know to keep off.

      • smdh
        March 11, 2016

        look up illnesses derived from and pathogens found in fecal bacteria, effects of an anal prolapse.

    • March 11, 2016

      Homosexuality is against nature according to Romans 1:26,27. Because of this it is contrary to the model or blueprint God gave us for marriage Matthew 19:4-6. Nations with a Christian heritage based their marriage laws upon the instructions of Christ in the New Testament.

      Sincerely, Rev. Donald Hill. Evangelist.

  31. Big-Bannan
    March 10, 2016

    Let Dominica civilize, and allow God to Judge. Too much of those barbaric old time nonsense. Those very church people are more immoral in their every day lives. . We refuse it yet we are willing to commit perjury to live in countries where it’s illegal.

    • Big-Bannan
      March 10, 2016

      Excuse me ..”Where it is legal”.

  32. True Dat
    March 10, 2016

    wayyyyy papa look it in D/a

  33. Lang Lonnng
    March 10, 2016

    Dominicans too hypocrite. All of all you running for visa and green card to go and live in Sodom and gommorah. Is up there all you children will see all the comess. Dominica is a God fearing nation why all you doh stay here. When the gay people passing all kinds of things all you have to say but when in New York they in heels and panty all you mouth shut. Mind all you toofay. Leave ppl live their Iife the way they want God will judge them. Is not today it have macoumeh in Dominica its nothing new. Start cleaning all you closet first maybe some might even be there hiding. Don’t throw stones before it bounce and break some of all you glass windows.

  34. star
    March 10, 2016

    Them man there sick sick sick , that is just abomination, all of us are sinful but the country has enough on its hand. Stop that nastiness man. So u all will tackle my son on the road too and then say it legalized. In all you M*R. All u just looking for problem in the country

    • Calibishie Warrior
      March 11, 2016

      You want to know who is sick? just look in the the mirror. The likes of you so I want to see ‘tackling’ my daughter and say it’s Gods law for you to to see REAL problems.

      • GALILEO GALILEI
        March 11, 2016

        you will see real problem if you think you will be allowed to kiss and hold hands in the street without getting your a– kicked and beaten

  35. derp
    March 10, 2016

    “Even if they rejected it, that doesn’t mean that people still wouldn’t have their natural sexual urges”

    Oh really the natural sexual urges like what those men did to the underage girl…..

    • Shortie
      March 10, 2016

      I so get your point………….. Thumbs up!!!

    • Shortie
      March 10, 2016

      Thumbs up! I so get your point!

    • Donkey
      March 10, 2016

      This is a poor comparison. MiriDOM is explicitly talking about ‘consensual’ sex. You are talking about sex with a minor–which is, by definition, not consensual, because minors cannot legally give consent. Your comparison is absurd.

  36. IamanIdiot
    March 10, 2016

    The act is being rejected because it a health risk to men. Putting your thingy in a germ ridden environment is not good for you! :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

    • lightbulb
      March 10, 2016

      so is also having sex without a condom, but it is still legal though.

      • GALILEO GALILEI
        March 11, 2016

        were there condoms 1000 years ago m friend

    • Shortie
      March 10, 2016

      :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D ………… but so true

  37. Carrington
    March 10, 2016

    Denied!!!!Not in DA, go to America and practice safely.

  38. Happy
    March 10, 2016

    Buggery is wrong and it is wrong… period. No justification needed.

    • AJ
      March 10, 2016

      Is it wrong based on man’s law or God’s law? If by God’s then, we should criminalize adultery and fornication to safeguard our society.

      How are we even interested with what another human does with their own body? How does it harm you or me?

      • Happy
        March 10, 2016

        Do you feel good about it? But you need others so you can feel good about it. It is wrong both ways. From since the very beginning. Because human law is imperfect in nature and God’s law is perfect.

      • Viewsexpressed
        March 10, 2016

        It is wrong based on natural law, and that is what God is. This act of buggery produces nothing. People practice oral sex, it cannot be legalise and has not been promoted for it to be so. MeriDOM is seeking acceptance from the public, that is all it is. Go do all you business and leave us with us.

      • Dante Jones
        March 10, 2016

        God’s law is perfect? Right. So next time a man rapes a female family member of yours she has to marry him. Perfect. right.

      • GALILEO GALILEI
        March 11, 2016

        that is just the point, no body care who the hell they buggar in their privacy, we know who they are yet we still speak to them and patronize their business enterprise

        so what exactly are they asking for, when NOBODY cares who they buggar or not

    • syncronize
      March 10, 2016

      I quite agree it is wrong. And these people need to understand that even though they consent and partake in the act in the privacy of their homes it is still wrong. He asks the question whether the committee denied it because the bible said so. Yes it was denied because the bible said so. We created laws, governments created laws which was not guided by the teachings and commandments of God. All those who disobeys God’s Laws will face the wrath of God. Remember God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah because of buggery and God has not changed his law against that. So Miri whoever can continue to defy God’s law. What a pity, they say they are church people and God fearing. I am so afraid for Dominica, this world is really coming to an end soon. The writing is sooooo much on the walls.

    • Donkey
      March 10, 2016

      What a stupid comment. It is just wrong–no justification needed? Really? Well, by your logic, I’ve just decided to say that slavery is correct…period. No justification needed. Using your logic, it is impossible to refute what I just said.

      Do you see how dumb your comment was?

  39. March 10, 2016

    Well they will behind every body’s butts ,in the dark,in the forest and in their bed room,,

  40. lightbulb
    March 10, 2016

    “It is because the bible say so?” he asked. “The bible says a lot of different things and it is not in the laws of Dominica …..

    LOL tell dem.

    Shrimp and Saltfish against the bible.

    But mind me I doh have lawyer.

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