{"id":11041,"date":"2018-04-17T22:30:36","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T02:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=11041"},"modified":"2018-04-17T22:30:36","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T02:30:36","slug":"britain-theresa-may-deeply-regrets-anti-gay-colonial-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=11041","title":{"rendered":"Britain: Theresa May ‘Deeply Regrets’ Anti-gay Colonial Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"

By teleSUR
\nApril 17, 2018 – telesurtv.net<\/A><\/I><\/p>\n

Theresa May British Prime Minister Theresa May said, “nobody should face persecution or discrimination because of who they are or who they love.”<\/B><\/p>\n

Only days after Trinidad and Tobago’s High Court repealed the country’s sodomy laws, arguing that they were unconsitituional, Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May said she \u201cdeeply regrets\u201d Britain’s historical legacy of colonialism which imposed anti-gay laws throughout the Commonwealth.
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\nSpeaking at an NGO sideline event as part of the annual summit of Commonwealth leaders, May urged Commonwealth leaders to \u201coverhaul\u201d colonial-era legislation, saying that \u201cnobody should face persecution or discrimination because of who they are or who they love…I am all too aware that these laws were often put in place by my own country. They were wrong then, and they are wrong now. As the UK\u2019s prime minister, I deeply regret both the fact that such laws were introduced, and the legacy of discrimination, violence and even death that persists today.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her comments were met with some cheers from the audience despite the fact that those colonial-era laws continue to treat same-sex relations as a punishable offense.<\/p>\n

Peter Tatchell, a human rights activist, referred to May’s comments as being \u201cpositive and welcome,\u201d according to The Guardian. However, he emphasized that such words should have been pronounced before those Commonwealth leaders who enforce such oppresive laws.<\/p>\n

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By teleSUR April 17, 2018 – telesurtv.net British Prime Minister Theresa May said, “nobody should face persecution or discrimination because of who they are or who they love.” Only days after Trinidad and Tobago’s High Court repealed the country’s sodomy laws, arguing that they were unconsitituional, Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May said she \u201cdeeply regrets\u201d … Continue reading Britain: Theresa May ‘Deeply Regrets’ Anti-gay Colonial Laws<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,677,1,5,186,178,323],"tags":[85,1349,1310],"class_list":["post-11041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-caribbean","category-england-international","category-general-tt","category-international","category-law","category-media","category-sex-general-tt","tag-abuse","tag-gay-rights","tag-telesur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11042,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11041\/revisions\/11042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}