While gladly brandishing the recent supposed success of the Lawyers Christian fellowship in prolonging the discrimination that homosexuals face on a daily basis in Jamaica, I hope and trust that, as legitimate journalists, you will set the example by giving alternate points of view with regards to laws concerning homosexuality and buggery.

This is not just a question of gay rights. It is the freedoms of all consenting adults that are at stake. What will follow after this? Legislation against adultery? Perhaps a ban on certain sexual positions between heterosexual couples?

More and more tourists here in France and elsewhere are deciding to bypass Jamaica for other island destinations due to this kind of shocking rhetoric. As long as this explicit discrimination continues, your image as an island paradise and particularly as a bastion of peace (thanks primarily to the efforts of Bob Marley) will remain tarnished.

You are not "out of many one people". You need to opt for another national slogan. How about, "Determined to remain in the 16th century"?

- Greg Duchamp, boantillais@yahoo.fr, France

I am married to a Jamaican. We lived and conceived our lovely daughter in Jamaica last year. After repeated attacks on her (both physical and verbal) for carrying a "white man baby", we were able to leave the island for 'humanitarian reasons'.

Arguing that 'he said, she said' in 'Europe' only feeds into the colonial master dynamic of victimhood and unaccountability. Shed the colonial comparison crap and take account of your homophobic and misogynistic behaviour and maybe, just maybe, Jamdown will begin to turn the corner and join the 21st century.

That's why we did a 180 and left the island abruptly in the final trimester of pregnancy so that we wouldn't have to open the morning paper and read such shortsighted drivel as D. Dick.

That's not what Jesus was about. Pastor, you are part of the problem, not the solution. Shame on you! It's that kind of anti-social contract that finds Jamaica as the 'murder capital' of the world (to say nothing of the raging homophobia).

Step down from the pulpit, you purveyor of intolerance. Jamdown has enough problems and it doesn't need you adding to it.