The Prelate of the Methodist Church, Nigeria, Most Reverend Oliver Aba, said gay marriage was an abomination before God and humanity, adding that it was a European attempt to ‘turn the whole world upside down’.
He also added that the concept was alien to African culture and would be resisted by the church.
The cleric made this statement in an interview with PUNCH correspondent after the Africa Methodist Council Heads of Conference Summit and Women’s Movement Leadership Summit, held in Lagos, on Saturday.
The lecture’s topic, presented by the General Secretary of the World Methodist Council, Bishop Ivan Abrahams, was, ‘Leadership in a Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous World’.
Speaking during the interview, the cleric told Sunday PUNCH that the conference was convened to talk about “not only because of the political troubles that have been bedevilling the continent of Africa; but to look at the social aspect of life as well’.
“Look at the issue of gay marriage. Gay marriage is an abomination. God did not make the world like that. He did not make Africans like that. It (gay marriage) is not African. (For one to say) That a man must sleep with another man, or a woman sleep with a woman; or for a man to take another man as a wife or vice versa is an abomination.
“It’s like the European world wants to turn the world upside down,” he said.
Speaking further, he noted that for anyone to procreate, a man and a woman must come together, which, according to him, is the ‘natural order of things’.
