What's to be done about gays?

THE EDITOR, Sir:

I have a few questions for Peter Espeut and other self-righteous anti-gay folk:

If being gay is a lifestyle choice and, therefore, wrong and against God's laws, what do we do about them then?

Should all the law-abiding (except when making love in the privacy of their homes) and eminent gay men, and just ordinary folk who are gay, be forced to learn the joys of heterosexuality and made to give up their lifestyle and live as heterosexuals?

Do we have an obligation to, if we find out that a son of ours is gay and in a relationship with another man that he loves, report to the police that they are breaking one of the laws of Jamaica and have them prosecuted for it?

How is the crime between consenting adults proven and prosecuted anyway?

When was the last occasion of a successful prosecution and sentence in Jamaica against consenting adults under this law?

Do we just stigmatise and out them and subject them to mob justice? How Christian is that?

And what about the lesbians? We forgot to pass a law about them. How do we get them on the straight and narrow path and right with God's law?

Maybe the frightening fear of being themselves buggered made 19th-century old men pass a buggery law, and yet they were pretty OK with their threesomes with two wanton wenches.

Do we just rail against all the gay people in the world, subject them to demeaning accusations of their worth and their spirituality (OK then, being bad Christians), and try to abrogate their rights as citizens in the sure and certain knowledge that they are going to burn in hell when they die?

PATRICK BROWNE

PO Box 6

Ocho Rios, St Ann