Sex legalized despite local chagrin.The United Kingdom has scrapped laws making homosexuality homosexuality, a term created by 19th cent. theorists to describe a sexual and emotional interest in members of one's own sex. Today a person is often said to have a homosexual or a heterosexual orientation, a description intended to defuse some of the long-standing a crime in its five Caribbean territories, acting after local legislatures refused to do so. London's move angered religious leaders, who say homosexuality goes against the grain of the deeply religious and socially conservative islands. "This is totally unacceptable to the minds of the Christian community here," said the Rev. Nicholas Sykes, chief pastor of the Church of England Church of England: see England, Church of. in the Cayman Islands Cayman Islands (kā`mən), British dependency (2005 est. pop. 44,300), 100 sq mi (259 sq km), comprising three islands in the West Indies. . The order, which went into effect in January, applies to Anguilla, the Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands British Virgin Islands A British colony in the eastern Caribbean east of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Road Town, on Tortola Island, is the capital. Population: 21,700. Noun 1. , Montserrat, and the Turks and Caicos. |
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