by Gay.com / PlanetOut.com Network

Caribbean Roman Catholic bishops have denounced a recommendation by Jamaica to decriminalize homosexual acts, according to the Jamaica Gleaner newspaper.

Last week a Jamaican government-appointed committee on human rights recommended that homosexual acts in private between consenting adults should not be considered criminal.

Responding to the committee's proposal on behalf of Caribbean bishops, Monsignor Richard Albert said, "There is an obvious consistency in the Old and New Testament salvation history about the moral unacceptability of homosexual relations."