Nicholson Seeks Compromise Between Church Groups and Legislature

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JAMAICA'S attorney general, Senator AJ Nicholson, has suggested a compromise between parliamentarians on the joint select committee studying proposals for the proposed Charter of Rights and christian activists who oppose the lack of specificity in the bill. Senator Nicholson, who is both chairman of the committee and Minister of Justice, suggested that there was a real threat that the interpretation of various provisions of the charter by the courts, including the Privy Council, could be contrary to the intention of Parliament. He was speaking during Wednesday's meeting of the committee at Gordon House, which heard submissions from conservative church activists groups - Lawyers' Christian Fellowship and the National Church Alliance - raising concerns that aspects of the Charter could encourage homosexuality and abortion as well as restrict the teaching of religion in schools.

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