Kitwe District Pastors Fellowship has commended President Hakainde Hichilema for denouncing gay rights.
Speaking in an interview in Kitwe today, Fellowship chairperson Bishop Raddy Lewila said the president’s clarification on his government’s stance on gay rights gives the church confidence that the country’s Christian identity will not be dented or soiled up.
He said the church will support the president’s stance to ensure that the national cultural values are upheld through-out to future generations.
“We are glad that the President has spoken and addressed the talks that had been raised by citizens on gay rights, we are happy that he has clarified that his government does not and will not support gay rights and lesbianism so we are sure that our Christians values will be maintained and our identity will not be dented,” Bishop Lewila said.
He said the President’s consistent position on gay rights is an indication that he is an honest man who attaches great importance to the country’s cultural and Christian values.
However, Evangelical Fellowship of Zambia Copperbelt Coordinator Stephen Safwali wants the President to go a step further by condemning the act of flying flags that signify support of gay rights by the Swedish and Finnish embassies.
Bishop Safwali said the flags were meant to be seen by Zambians and entice them towards a practice that is against their culture and their constitution.
He said the president should also ensure that those entrusted with enforcement of the law regarding gay rights as enshrined in the constitution do their job.
“When it comes to other nations trying to push an agenda that they know very well is against the principles of this nation, I strongly feel it was wrong for the countries that flew those flags, the fact is that those flags were being flown for the attention of the Zambians to see, yes the President has said something but the flying of the flags has not been addressed by anyone from the government directly,” he said.
Bishop Safwali has also called for ambassadors representing different countries in Zambia to respect the sovereignty of the country.
Aha, thats what hppens when HH is the president of a country-everyone starts to smile again and you begin to see happy people at corners and everywhere.
Naive f00Is. Gaysim has been allowed since August 2021. Go around lusaka and you will see many gays walking hand in hand. Some embassies are even raising gay flags freely.
Why have gay rights been isolated as a bigger sin that requires punishment in the penal code? Our churches are seemingly unconcerned about married before and outside of sex.
Fornication and adultery are sins too and they are none punishable by law. For this to be fair, the church must be fighting to make fornication a criminal offence under the penal code.
Previously adultery was, more accurately marriage interference was a civil wrong, government reasoned that this was between two adults and should thus be scrapped off. Just last month, there was a proposal to remove bigamy as a crime.
The church has been quite on all of this. I understand most people are averse gay rights, citing the Bible but they are happy to praise men for fornication.
Why the two face on this crime/sin?
THESE PASTORS SHOULD SH*T UP
THEY CASTIGATE PEOPLE MINDING THEIR OWN BUSINESS
WHILST THEY BUSY RIPPING OFF THEIR CONGREGATIONS
AND LIVING A HIGH LIFE
WHEN SOME GO TO THEM FOR HELP THEY TOLD PRAY TO GOD HE WILL ASSIST YOU
AND IN THE SAME BREATH THEY ASK THESE SAME PEOPLE FOR ASSISTANCE TO IMPROVE THEIR HOUSE OR FIX THEIR CAR
HYPOCTRITS !
Church membership is a person choice and so is being gay. Church leaders should mind their own business and get out of peoples personal life and belief.
There’s a problem…. the announcement is coming from an envelope seeker. When this thing is allowed he will find an excuse like THESE ARE HUMAN BEINGS WHO NEED OUR HELP AND SYMPATHY.BLAH BLAH
Let he who has not sinned be the first to cast a stone.
Hypocrites.
When did pastors ever seen government help gay people come out of gay. The treatment of coming out of gay is spiritual, not physical. Denouncing gays rights is not an answer. Sometimes our pastors act like carnal Christians- addressing the problem physically like the world do. Gays need pastors, not the government.