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Pastor Scavella said, however, that he supports marriage being defined as constitutionally between a man and a woman, but said it should include the provision of being born a man or woman “at birth” to prevent transgender marriages. Why use the Bible on me when you declare that you don’t believe in the Bible? You don’t accept the Bible as the basis of your life.” “On the other side of your mouth they would declare that ‘I’m going to use the Bible against you.’ You can’t have your cake and eat it too. That’s on one side of their mouths,” he said. “The Bible becomes a means of convenience for people to justify their beliefs. He added that God gives freedom of choice, but does not “endorse illicit or lewd behaviour,” something he said needs to be “clearly understood by people like Ms Greene who grew up in the Adventist church and knows very well what the Adventist church believes.” Pastor Scavella refuted the idea that the laws are discriminatory because “they are based on God’s programme” and “God doesn’t endorse marriage between anybody else.” Ms Greene concluded her statement by saying: “I am a citizen of the Bahamas.
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She called the laws which prevent same-sex marriage discriminatory and added that Dr Rollins’ proposals “also stand in direct opposition to the Biblical concept of free will and the message of Christ.” In response to Dr Rollins’ claims, Ms Greene said in spite of Bahamians holding “varying attitudes” that “same-sex attraction and intercourse are an affront to God, nature and society,” a greater affront would be “the idea that a citizen or a group of citizens would give up a right rather than ensure that all other citizens could enjoy the same right.”
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He also urged the government to include the definition as a part of its proposed amendments to the Constitution in the upcoming referendum in order to prevent “a torrent of speculation and opposition” to gay marriage that could derail the referendum. God permits certain things to happen, but it doesn’t mean that it is all right.”Įarlier this month MP for Fort Charlotte Dr Andre Rollins asked the Christie administration to consider constitutionally defining marriage as being between a man and a woman. We must not confuse the rights of individuals when it comes to what the Bible says. Based on our present situation, the laws of the land are based on the Bible and the rule of faith. We as a (SDA) church believe we must be law-abiding citizens to the extent that the law does not conflict with God’s law. “What I uphold and espouse, and as a church we espouse,” he said, “is that they (LBGT) must live by the laws of the land, and if the laws of the land don’t permit it, then those are the laws of the land. I’m not going to participate in something that is not Christ-like because the law says so.”
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If they (the LGBT community) have a right to be married and I’m a marriage officer, they can come to me and say ‘Listen you need to marry me, I have a right in this country to be married.’ I am never going to marry them you’d have to take my license away. “The fabric of our society is based upon Christian principles. “The minute our Christian country begins to accept and to accommodate these types of behaviour, which in my view is going to eventually happen, all it means is that it weakens the fabric of the nation,” Mr Scavella said, when contacted by The Tribune. His remarks came in response to LGBT activist Erin Greene’s recent assertion this week that laws that prevent same-sex marriage are “discriminatory” and “diametrically opposed to the principles of democracy, equality and the Rule of Law.” He said that from a biblical point of view the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community might choose to, but has “no right to go against God’s law” or the laws of the Bahamas. Speaking with The Tribune yesterday, Pastor Scavella said if “God doesn’t make it (same-sex marriage) a right, man can’t make it a right”. PRESIDENT of the South Bahamas Conference of Seventh-day Adventists Paul Scavella yesterday said he would “never” marry anyone in the lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender community and encouraged them to “live by the laws of the land”.
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