The Trinidad Mus­lim League (TML) says it has been cau­tious­ly ob­serv­ing the de­vel­op­ments in the coun­try re­gard­ing the is­sue of al­ter­na­tive lifestyles and what it calls its sub­tle in­tro­duc­tion in­to our main­stream so­ci­ety.

In a me­dia re­lease, TML said, "We have seen, over the years, the 'seem­ing­ly in­no­cent' as­sim­i­la­tion of LGBTQ in­to our print, so­cial as well as elec­tron­ic me­dia. To­day, there is a per­ceived move to in­tro­duce this in our schools, where our chil­dren will be in­doc­tri­nat­ed in­to ac­cept­ing this im­moral lifestyle as some­thing that is good and healthy. Trinidad and To­ba­go, while not a re­li­gious state, con­sists pre­dom­i­nant­ly of cit­i­zens who ad­here to and hold re­li­gious prin­ci­ples as sacro­sanct. These prin­ci­ples have been hand­ed down through our fore­fa­thers who up­held such moral and spir­i­tu­al val­ues up­on which our na­tion was built."

TML said as a rec­og­nized Is­lam­ic or­ga­ni­za­tion that has con­tributed sig­nif­i­cant­ly to our na­tion’s de­vel­op­ment, it is its re­spon­si­bil­i­ty to prof­fer its po­si­tion on this is­sue.

"Is­lam, like oth­er re­li­gions, cat­e­gor­i­cal­ly speaks against ho­mo­sex­u­al­i­ty and oth­er such al­ter­na­tive lifestyles."

TML said as Mus­lims they do not doubt, even for an in­stant, that what Al­lah and His Prophet have pre­scribed is wise.

"We know that there is great wis­dom in what Al­lah has com­mand­ed and what He has for­bid­den. Since the pro­hi­bi­tion has come from our Lord, Mus­lims do not wait un­til sci­ence proves that harm be­falls the one who does that which Al­lah has for­bid­den. Rather we must be­lieve firm­ly that Al­lah on­ly pre­scribes that which is good for peo­ple and these mod­ern dis­cov­er­ies should on­ly in­crease our cer­tain­ty and con­fi­dence in the great­ness of Al­lah’s wis­dom."

As care­givers of one of the de­nom­i­na­tion­al school boards in Trinidad and To­ba­go, the TML, through its rights en­shrined in our Con­cor­dat, "re­jects what­ev­er at­tempt, overt or covert, to in­tro­duce any ma­te­r­i­al or con­cept as­so­ci­at­ed with teach­ing our chil­dren about al­ter­na­tive lifestyles in our schools."

TML said if we want to help chil­dren de­vel­op in­to hap­py and healthy adults, "we as a so­ci­ety must re­turn to fam­i­ly val­ues that are in agree­ment with the teach­ings and guid­ance of our beloved Cre­ator."

The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion has said that there is no plan to change the school cur­ricu­lum.