By Jaclyn Belczyk,
16 August 2016
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<p>The <a target="_blank" href="http://www.belizejudiciary.org/web/supreme-court/">Belize Supreme Court</a> [official
website] on Wednesday struck down a law banning sodomy, declaring it
unconstitutional. Section 53 of the Belize Criminal Code banned "carnal
intercourse against the order of nature." The law was challenged in 2010
by Caleb Orozco, whose organization, <a target="_blank" href="http://unibam.org/">UniBAM</a> [advocacy website],<a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/UNIBAMSupport/status/763429914431332352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">reported the ruling on
Twitter</a> [Tweet]. Section 53 had been law in Belize since colonial
times, and Belize is the first Caribbean nation where such a law has been
declared unconstitutional.
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