On Tuesday, Britain’s Judicial Committee of the Privy Council invalidated Trinidad and Tobago’s 1986 prohibitions on homosexuality, claiming they violate its constitution.

• Trinidad and Tobago is a former British colony. The Judicial Committee acts as a court of final appeal for some former colonies, as well as for current British Overseas Territories.
• Trinidad and Tobago’s High Court ruled against the law in 2018, and its Court of Appeal reversed that decision in 2025.

Trinidad and Tobago is a majority Christian nation where many citizens deeply oppose homosexuality. Representatives of Trinidad and Tobago’s government expressed disapproval of the British court’s ruling.

• Trinidadian Attorney General John Jeremie argued that the law, enacted well after Trinidad and Tobago became independent in 1962, protected traditional family values.
• Ellis Burris, president of the Trinidadian government’s Inter-Religious Organization, responded this week by reasserting that homosexuality is “against the divine law.”

Burris is right. In Leviticus 20, Romans 1, 1 Corinthians 6 and elsewhere, the Creator of human beings, sex, marriage and family forbids homosexuality and other sex sins.

Britain should know this. As Herbert W. Armstrong proved in his book The United States and Britain in Prophecy, the British Empire descended from the Israelite tribe of Ephraim and became the largest and most just empire in world history specifically because it was God’s fulfillment of His promise to make Abraham’s descendants into great nations (Genesis 12:1-3; 17:1-8).

• The national blessings possessed by Britain and its “company of nations” (Genesis 35:11), as well as by its brother nation the United States, point the world to Abraham and to the God of Abraham (e.g. Deuteronomy 4:5-8). Yet Britain’s leaders and its people are actively pointing the world away from God and His law.

The Judicial Committee’s authority over constitutionality in possessions and former colonies is one of the last functioning remnants of that empire. Remarkably, its authority is being used to turn people away from God’s law, even in states now independent of the empire.

Tuesday’s ruling marks a grave injustice, not merely against the people of Trinidad and Tobago but against the God who created the British and all peoples.