BASSETERRE, St. Kitts - AFTER making certain comments during a presentation at the New Birth Gospel Tabernacle Church in Cayon, Prime Minister the Rt. Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas has been accused of taking politics to a place of worship.
According to a WINNFM news report, Dr. Douglas said, “...And as He has promised, He bound up our wounds, He has stopped the haemorrhage, healing has taken place and He has placed us on a straight path...
“The case is not straight that we going for all eight because church - as we have been taught - unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many, many more seeds. What man in his simplicity sees as death, the eternal and the universal and the infinite at the dawn of time, ordained to bring new life and new birth right here in New Birth...”
Leader of the Unity Movement and Parliamentary Representative of Constituency Number Seven, the Hon. Dr. Timothy Harris told SKNVibes that he “joins all right-thinking persons in saying that party politics could not be advanced in the cavalier way in which it was advanced on Sunday. There is a time and place for everything...
“We have quite a bit of calls and concerns expressed by citizens and residents who felt that the remarks by the outgoing Prime Minister at the service on Sunday were quite inappropriate and unbecoming. And they basically wanted us to give an assurance that should we find time to worship as a group, in a church, that the language would be one that would be much more cognisant of the fact that we are in a place of worship and that it is not a place for the party political agenda to be spread and propagated.
“But when you go to church, you go there, as it were, to give respect, to give honour and to celebrate God. It is not a place for ‘All Eight’ and that kind of jargon and that kind of insertion of party politics in a place of worship.”
The Unity Leader said he condemns “the partisan approach to religious matters”, adding that the “divisiveness that politics brings would best be left outside and so we too were concerned...”
