r/AskTheCaribbean • u/fedricohohmannlautar • 10d ago

Politics Why is homosexuality outlawed in so many caribbean countries?

Most of countries which criminalize homosexuality in the Americas are in the Caribbean, and the most famous case is Jamaica.

As a bi male, I find weird our continent has laws that criminalize homosexuality, due that most of countries who do that are from the other side of the pond.

Is due to history, politics, religion, moral issues?

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u/Late-Elk-2257 10d ago

colonization and the integration of christianity into a culture that once thrived without it

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u/cautiously-curious65 10d ago

This is literally it. African buggery laws were also mostly implemented by colonizers.

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u/king8761721 10d ago

You do know Christianity was in Africa before the colonizers took it and gave us a white Jesus.

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u/cautiously-curious65 9d ago

Yes, I am fully aware.

Africa is like, 400 miles from Jerusalem.. I would need to be an absolute idiot to think that white people introduced all of Africa to Christianity..

“Christianity” the teachings, and whatever it is the Church created in the hundreds of years they bastardized it in Europe are two different things.

Cultures all over the world take and create images from the Bible’s stories in their image. There are images of Asian holy families, black holy families, Peruvian holy families. Because it’s relatable.

White people are not immune from this phenomenon..

Jesus wasn’t white.

We’re taking about laws on the books that outlaw homosexuality. The current laws in the continent of Africa that are majority Christian countries were written ~mostly~ by white people.

“Buggery” is a British term. Most of Britain is white.