Having watched the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government’s sloppy response to several challenges bedevilling the nation and threatening its unity, top among which is insecurity.
An advocacy group in Akwa Ibom State, the Mandates Eyes, has expressed displeasure over the comments attributed to the Prelate of the Methodist Church,
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The proposal to allow gay marriages was passed on Wednesday at the Methodist conference in a vote with 254 in favour, and 46 against.
Reacting to the decision at a briefing on Friday, Samuel Uche, MCN prelate, assured members that the UK church’s decision does not affect the Nigerian church, since it had already gained autonomy.
The prelate said MCN condemns same-sex relationships and that anyone caught practising it would be expelled from the church.
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“There’s a raging controversy now and people’s spirits are dampened over the decision of the British conference to legalise same-sex marriage. This is for the British church. The British Methodist Church is no longer the mother church of Methodist Church Nigeria. Methodist Church Nigeria became independent, autonomous in 1963. Therefore, any decision they take there is not binding on Methodist Church Nigeria,” he said.
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The Methodist Church Nigeria has denounced the adoption of same-sex marriage by the Methodist Church in Britain.
The British Methodist Church, on Wednesday, became the largest religious denomination in that country to permit same-sex marriage after a vote to change the definition of marriage at the Methodist Conference overwhelmingly passed by 254 in favour with 46 against.
Church officials hope the first same-sex weddings in Methodist chapels will take place later this year, according to the British Broadcasting Corporation.
However, freedom of conscience clauses mean ministers will not be forced to conduct such weddings if they oppose the move.