The Namibian wing of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa has distanced itself from Friday’s planned anti-LGBTQI+ protest, calling on its members to abstain from participating in the protest.
The protest is seeking to advocate for a law against same-sex marriage and related practices in Namibia.
“I respectfully advise all Methodists (clergy and laity) to refrain from participating in this march which is a grave violation of the LGBTQI+ community’s human rights,” bishop Christopher Gaya said in statement on Wednesday.
Gaya reminded congregants that the Methodist Church of Southern Africa at its 2001 conference adopted the principle that “seeks to be a community of love rather than rejection” and in 2014 “that any form of victimisation, hatred or violence towards homosexual people should be condemned in the strongest possible terms.”
He said the church still stands by these statements.
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