Catholic Church Fret over US Legalisation of Gay Marriage
By Kasim Sumaina in Abuja
Concerned by the influence some of the trends associates with same-sex-marriage could have on morality and values, the Catholic Church in Nigeria has expressed fear over the legalisation of gay marriage in the United States of America.
To the church, the recent rise in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender activism, the popular vote in the Republic of Ireland and the Supreme Court decision in the US will tend to provoke a notable and rapid shift in public opinion about the nature and meaning of marriage and family as it has been known for millennia.
In a statement made available to journalists in Abuja by the President, Catholic Bishops’ conference of Nigeria, Most Rev. Ignatius Kaigama, the church said, “We wish to state that this is a sad, unjust and lamentable situation based largely upon a distorted perception of natural law, the will of God and human nature.”
“Canada, Spain, France, United Kingdom, Ireland and most recently, United States of America are some of the countries that have gone down this path. They are nations who undeniably have cultural, social and economic influence upon many African nations including Nigeria. Mozambique has not yet accepted same-sex-marriage instead they have struck down their legal ban on sodomy, thereby opening the down to the festering of the homosexual culture/subculture within their society.”
Kaigama stated further that as Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria, “We are grateful for these interactions and support. We are however also concerned for the influence which some of these trends could have on morality and values. We therefore hereby express our concern with regards to the persistent and continuous propagation and globalisation of the homosexual lifestyle and the effort to redefine marriage which is a distorted view of human sexuality, coming especially from the Western world.”
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