Last week, 7News told you about the Gender Policy which caused a firestorm of controversy because the Churches felt that GOB was being sly by quietly and gradually bending to the agenda of the LGBT population in Belize.
Prime Minister Dean Barrow said that the Churches were confusing policy and law, while the Churches responded that policy is the last step before legislation.
They've had an opportunity to voice their concerns to Government, and today we asked Prime Minister Dean Barrow for an update.
Here's what he had to say:
Hon. Dean Barrow - Prime Minister of Belize
"I don't want to get into the internal affairs of the church but this is very important. At that meeting, that call for the gender policy to be withdrawn came from one person supported by two others. The majority of participants there did not make any such call - in fact one prominent church leader went on record as saying that he believes that the gender policy is a good policy. There may be aspects of it that some people has concerns with but on the whole he thought that it was a progressive policy - a step forward. Can we be absolutely clear about that, that the church does not speak with one voice with respect to the gender policy. I'm meeting on Friday with some of the pastors in the Belmopan area, I will tell you that there is no way on earth that Government will withdraw that policy. What that church man said is God's own truth - it is a good policy. I have said to those, very vocal among the church leaders in support of the call for the withdrawal that I'm prepared to accommodate submissions on particular aspects of the policy If we can be shows where certain things are subject to misinterpretation then we would try to clarify language but there is no way on earth that the policy as a policy is going to be withdrawn."
The Churches continue to voice their disapproval of the Gender Policy.
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