THE local church is ready to fight against any attempt to make homosexual preferences a human right in Barbados.

Yesterday, ahead of a Gay Pride March scheduled to take place next Sunday, a group of church leaders held a press conference at the New Testament Church, Mercy Building Complex, Fairchild Street, St Michael, where they declared that they are opposed to and are confronting the LGBT agenda, and not the community of the LGBT.

The church leaders are also strongly against the agenda the upcoming Gay Pride March is seeking to promote.

“Every activity that they engage in is an attempt to push the agenda. So we have opposed, not necessarily the March, but the agenda, and that’s what we are opposing. So our act today, our demonstration today, our protest today, is a protest against the agenda.

“This agenda, we must understand, is a new form of neo-colonialism, because it hasn’t emerged from Barbados. It is a global agenda to influence different nations. In fact, agencies are attaching aid and economic support and technical assistance to the LGBT agenda.

“This is a new attempt to colonise us with certain values and certain perspectives, and if we don’t conform, then the argument is that we can suffer economically, and that we can suffer socially because they withdraw support, they withdraw aid…” Apostle Eliseus Joseph said during the press conference. Read more via Barbados Advocate