Pastor faces call for exit from GRPA board over anti-gay remarks

Pastor Ronald McGarrell

Executive Director of the Guyana Responsible Parenthood Association (GRPA) Reverend Patricia Sheerattan-Bisnauth says Pastor Ronald McGarrell, a board member of the organisation, will be asked to resign his post in light of his recent anti-Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgen-der and Intersex (LGBTI) comments.

When Stabroek News contacted McGarrell, who is Vice-Chairman of the Inter-Religious Organisation (IRO), he was reluctant to speak but admitted that he was recently told that the GRPA was asking for his removal from the Board of Directors. He declined to comment further on the matter.

McGarrell, during a recently broadcast radio programme, said homosexuals and other persons with alternative sexual orientation should reside on