The Salvation Army’s all-inclusive congregation policy does not extend to homosexuals, Swedish broadcasters TV4 claimed on Sunday evening.
During an undercover news report broadcast on one of Sweden's biggest channels, Salvation Army leaders told a covert journalist working for news programme “Kalla Fakta” (Cold Facts) that he, being a gay man, could not join the army originally formed in London in 1865.
Instead, an officer offered to “cure” him through prayer.
The programme also claimed that the Salvation Army was involved in an agreement with Africa's Malawi Council of Churches, which comprised of voting for the imprisonment of gay men.
Despite Sweden being the first country in the world to remove homosexuality as an illness, local SA officers told the journalist that homosexuality is “fundamentally wrong”.
“The Salvation Army’s basic position is that homosexual sex is a sin. The Bible says a man shouldn’t sleep with a man in the way he sleeps with a woman,” one chapter leader told the TV4 reporter.
“Anatomically we are not shaped that way, so in that sense I do think it is wrong,” another soldier said.
Source PinkPaper.com
