{"id":17187,"date":"2018-10-04T09:47:40","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T13:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aidslaw.ca\/site\/?p=17187"},"modified":"2022-09-25T21:16:16","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T01:16:16","slug":"religious-leaders-call-on-governments-across-the-caribbean-to-repeal-anti-lgbt-laws","status":"publish","type":"news22","link":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/religious-leaders-call-on-governments-across-the-caribbean-to-repeal-anti-lgbt-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious leaders call on governments across the Caribbean to repeal anti-LGBT laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<b>KINGSTON, Jamaica October 4, 2018 <\/b>\u2014<b> <\/b>Laws that criminalize consensual same-sex intimacy exist in a majority of Commonwealth countries, an unwelcome holdover from colonization \u2014 despite the fact that such laws have been long since repealed in the United Kingdom. But repealing these laws has proven difficult in some countries as they continue to be falsely \u201cjustified\u201d by religious arguments put forward by conservative faith leaders and churches, which in turn fuels an unfortunate hate that is distinctly un-Christian. But the tide is now turning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"download-link-button\"><a class=\"download-link en\" title=\"Religious leaders call on governments across the Caribbean to repeal anti-LGBT laws\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/download\/17184\/?tmstv=1776894859\" rel=\"nofollow\">\r\n\tDownload<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KINGSTON, Jamaica October 4, 2018 \u2014 Laws that criminalize consensual same-sex intimacy exist in a majority of Commonwealth countries, an unwelcome holdover from colonization \u2014 despite the fact that such laws have been long since repealed in the United Kingdom. But repealing these laws has proven difficult in some countries as they continue to be &#8230; <a title=\"Religious leaders call on governments across the Caribbean to repeal anti-LGBT laws\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/religious-leaders-call-on-governments-across-the-caribbean-to-repeal-anti-lgbt-laws\/\" aria-label=\"More on Religious leaders call on governments across the Caribbean to repeal anti-LGBT laws\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"publication_topics":[153,160],"publication_language":[184],"class_list":["post-17187","news22","type-news22","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","publication_topics-lgbtq-rights","publication_topics-the-caribbean","publication_language-english"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22\/17187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news22"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22\/17187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17188,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news22\/17187\/revisions\/17188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_topics?post=17187"},{"taxonomy":"publication_language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_language?post=17187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}