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Unholy union’ - Charter could sanction gay marriage in Jamaica - Christian lawyers
published: Wednesday | February 15, 2006

LaTonya Linton, Gleaner Writer

Yvonne Coke (right), founder and director of Hands Across Jamaica for Righteousness, in conversation with an animated Shirley Richards, attorney-at-law and president of the Lawyers’ Christian Fellowship, during a press conference yesterday [...]

‘Giving up certain for uncertain’
published: Sunday | February 19, 2006

LEFT: Shirley Richards, president Lawyers Christian Fellowship, Rev. Dr. Al Miller, and Major Richard Cooke, at Gordon House. RIGHT: Senators Trevor Munroe, Anthony Johnson and Dorothy Lightbourne, during the Charter of Right Debate last week at Gordon House.
- Photos BY RUDOLPH BROWN/CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER

Mark Dawes, [...]

Christian lawyers step up fight against charter
published: Monday | March 20, 2006

Andrew Wildes, Gleaner Writer

Dr. Janet Epp Buckingham., Director of Law and Public Policy for the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, addresses a meeting of concerned Christians hosted by the Lawyers Christian Fellowship at the Rehoboth Gospel Assembly, Constant Spring, St. Andrew on [...]

Christians make Rights Charter submission
published: Wednesday | March 8, 2006

Left: Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, A.J. Nicholson. Right: Head of the Christian Lawyers’ Fellowship, Shirley Richards. - FILE Photos

PARLIAMENT YESTERDAY received submissions from a church group, which demanded a last-minute hearing from the Joint Select Committee of Parliament considering the Charter of [...]

A Charter of Wrongs? The best and worst of times for human rights
published: Sunday | February 26, 2006

Frank Phipps, Contributor
JAMAICA IS going through a period of the ‘best of times and the worst of times’ for human rights.
Whoever decided that Cabinet meetings should be held in secret knew what he was about. [...]

Charter versus Constitution
published: Monday | February 20, 2006

The Rev. Dr. Al Miller (partly hidden), pastor of Fellowship Tabernacle church, confers with Shirley Richards, president of the Lawyers’ Christian Fellowship (LCF). Church leaders and the LCF joined forces last Thursday and urged a Joint Select Committee of Parliament, which is examining details for a [...]

The Charter of Rights, Part II

published: Monday | February 27, 2006

Stephen Vasciannie

LAST WEEK, I started looking at aspects of the proposed Charter of Rights, and especially the interpretation of the Charter being offered by various religious groups.
These groups have argued, in essence, that if the right to privacy is enshrined in the [...]

The Charter of Rights, Part II

published: Monday | February 27, 2006

Stephen Vasciannie

LAST WEEK, I started looking at aspects of the proposed Charter of Rights, and especially the interpretation of the Charter being offered by various religious groups.
These groups have argued, in essence, that if the right to privacy is enshrined in the [...]

The Charter of Rights
published: Monday | February 20, 2006

Stephen Vasciannie

THE CHARTER of Rights has sprung to prominence. After 15 years of consideration, and after many years of being largely ignored by the wider society, the charter is now front page news. It is now front page news because some leading members of [...]