An Anglican minister says it is time to repeal the buggery law in Barbados.
Canon Dr G. Llewellyn Armstrong, speaking to the DAILY NATION via phone from his church in Brooklyn, New York, maintained that the law should get out of people’s bedrooms and not have a say in the private lives of consenting adults.
However, he said there needed to be a national discussion before removing it from the statute books.
Buggery or sodomy is criminalised in Barbados even if the act is done in private and is consensual between two males or a male and a female. (DF)
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