For in recent months Jamaica had been engaged in dialogue about homosexuality when Portia Simpson-Miller, Jamaica’s current Prime Minister, shocked the nation by saying she will hire a competent person to serve in her cabinet regardless of their sexual orientation. It wasn’t our wedding, it was the timing. This kind of thing is not the norm and is not something you would expect to see in a Christian country.”īut in the midst of the reactions following the breaking news, there was something bigger something my wife and I happened to be caught in the middle of by chance. “Marriage is not a union between any two people it must be between a man and a woman. “It is illegal … in Jamaica,” a pastor was quoted saying. What was meant to be a private, intimate ceremony with family and friends, as a re-enactment of our legal marriage a month before in New York where same-sex marriage was recently legalized, became an overnight sensation in Jamaica. But this article immediately garnered attention, enough to overwhelm the comments section of the online article: “Could it be true? Did two women really get married on the island known to refute same-sex unions? What an ungodly occurrence! They should be charged! The Villa should be fined!” The questions and admonishments stirred like a typhoon in the middle of the ocean. It started with an article in the Jamaica Gleaner, “ Lesbian Nuptials at Silver Sands.” When and how this information was leaked, we are still uncertain. It has been a week since the first story broke about my marriage to my beautiful wife, Emma Benn, at Silver Sands Villa in Duncans Trelawney, a parish in Jamaica.
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