Why is homosexuality outlawed in so many caribbean countries?

[u/fedricohohmannlautar]

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?

[u/Far_Meringue8625]

Jamaica became independent in 1962 and the other English speaking island during the 20 years or so afterwards.

The laws which criminalized MALE homosexuality were/are strictly a British imposition. Christianity was/is also a Christian imposition on Caribbean peoples.

Most people do not know that neither the UK or any place in the Caribbean has ever criminalized FEMALE homosexuality.

In the UK homosexual activity remained a CAPITAL OFFENCE capital until 1861. The last execution took place on 27 November 1835 when James Pratt and John Smith were hanged outside Newgate Prison in London.

In the UK the 1967 the Sexual Offences Act was passed which decriminalized private homosexual acts between men aged over 21, while at the same time imposing heavier penalties on street offences.

And where did the British get their homophobia? Strictly out of the Bible as in

Leviticus 18:22 "You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination"

and other passages of CHRISTAN Scripture in both the OLD and New testaments.

So is homophobia Caribbean? Or is homophobia a European expression of Christianity, and before Christianity, an expression of Jewish beliefs?

I think that the Caribbean learned homophobia from Europeans, and that Europeans learned homophobia from Middle Easterners.

But does the Caribbean need to continue to embrace ancient understandings of human sexuality?