Quickie Link [1]: False Alert Outrages Jamaica's Homophobes [2]

By : vanrozenheim on Nov 01, 2007 - 04:58 PM
Youth [3]
(Jamaica) - Jamaica's Minister of Education Andrew Holness said a decisive 'no' to Rita Dyer and Norma Maynard's book, C-SEC Home Economics and Beyond (Management), which reportedly refers to same-sex unions as family. Holness angrily dismissed as "very unfortunate" a lead article in yesterday's Gleaner newspaper which reported that the book was recommended reading by the education ministry, despite the fact that it included a section suggesting that there has been a "broadening of the traditional definitions of a family structure" and that "when two women or two men live together in a relationship as Lesbians or Gays, they may be considered as a family".

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