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Dominica Prime Minister: ‘We will never accept same-sex marriage’

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The prime minister of the tiny island nation of Dominica in the Lesser Antilles region of the Caribbean Sea has stated unequivocally that his country rejects the notion of same-sex "marriage." Dominica Prime Minister Skerrit PM official website "I will make it clear that there are some things that this Government will not accept and we will never allow for the state to recognise same-sex marriage in our country. If other countries want to do it, that's a matter for them but there are certain guiding principles that we must follow," said Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit according to the Jamaica Observer . The PM's statement was in response to a homosexual activist group's demand that the government re-examine the country's law against sodomy as stated in the Sexual Offence Act of Dominica. Minority Rights Dominica (MiriDom) claimed the law "discriminates against people because of their sexual preferences. "We are just as...