Jul 16, 2026 Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column

(Kaieteur News) – Politicians are now often in the pulpit. Nowadays, the main preachers in houses of worship seem to be more men of politics, and less men of god. Fancy that state! It’s profaning when politicians are incited to perform before the pious and penitent. The houses of God are desecrated. I say it flat out.

All must be welcomed in sacred places. Including the vilest politicians. I make that and another point again: immovably, nonnegotiably. No one is irredeemable. I make still another, one more old position. Politicians are guests. They come as worshippers, whatever their beliefs. For whomever they believe. They are welcomed as guests. Take their place as guests. Pray as guests (if up to it). And that’s it. No honest man or woman needs a dirty political trickster in his public moment with god. It is the worst. They come with repentant heart, praise and thanks. They come to proselytise, and that meets the definition of perversity in the sacred sanctuary. Does light and darkness merge? Should the unholy, the ungodly, the diabolically clever, be invited to tarnish the ambience of quiet moments? To interfere with prayer and thanksgiving. I say No! No! No!