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The President of the lobby group TT Response, Bishop Victor Gill says homosexuality will decimate any church.
His comments follow the call by Pope Francis for Catholic priests to bless gay couples.
Nicole M Romany reports.
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00:00 According to the Bishop of the Laventille-based Christian Redemption Centre,
00:05 it's not the right thing.
00:08 He was speaking on the TV6 Morning Edition on Wednesday.
00:12 Love has discipline.
00:14 Love doesn't mean you love everything someone does.
00:18 Okay, so that is to me the right approach for Trinidad and Tobago on a whole, for this country, for this nation.
00:31 If we go down the way of blessing homosexual marriage, we are going down a rabbit hole, we are going down into serious confusion.
00:40 I believe it will decimate any church, the Catholic Church.
00:44 He is admonishing the powers that be not to follow this line of thinking.
00:49 The government must ask themselves that, the cabinet must ask themselves that,
00:52 the Pope, the Bishop, the priests, the pastors in this region, Trinidad and Tobago,
00:57 who don't want to speak out, will give a cone to God, every one of us, will be judged by Almighty God.
01:04 During the homily over the Christmas weekend, Roman Catholic priest Father Martin Sergiou said,
01:11 God does not discriminate and would shower his blessings on everyone who asks for it,
01:16 including the homeless, the addicts, divorced and remarried people and even members of the LGBTQ community.
01:25 But the Bishop explains it this way.
01:28 Homelessness and being physically handicapped, these are not moral equivalents when it comes to homosexuality.
01:39 There is no moral comparison.
01:42 Homosexuality is a choice.
01:45 It is a choice that goes against the will of God.
01:48 If a person, you know, you have the civil rights movement in America,
01:53 they try to, the gays try to say, well you know, the blacks have their rights.
01:57 But being black, there is no moral comparison with being black and being gay or being handicapped and being gay or being homeless.
02:05 Nicole M Romany, TV6 News.
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