The Archbishop of Suva Peter Loy Chong says it will be a long time before Pacific societies are ready to embrace the concept of same sex marriage.
“With regards to same sex marriage over it is still, culturally not yet even accepting that.”
“The culture and religion is strong here. It is going to, it will happen but I do not think it is going to happen in a very fast pace in the way it is taking place overseas.”
Following America’s legalisation of same sex marriage in July Loy Chong said, “The union between a man and a woman and its definition predated the State and church but now the bond had been defined as marriage.
“Firstly, it’s for their own good, because of the complementary nature of the two sexes they bring wholesome to the other.”
“Secondly its open to procreation and because of that their love overflows into the wider society; according to the church this is what we understand by marriage, any relationship that falls short of this cannot be called marriage.”
Loy Chong is one of two Pasifika bishops representing the region at the Fourteenth Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops in Rome next month.
Source
- radionz.co.nz
- fijitimes.com
- Image: fijione.tv
