The Universal Church is condemned by the MG Justice for forcing the pastor to perform a vasectomy and bring large amounts in the tithe | Minas Gerais

The pastor went through the procedure 17 years ago, in a rented room in Belo Horizonte. He and 30 other men had a vasectomy.. According to the complaint, all single pastors of the Universal Church must undergo the procedure before marrying.

According to the decision of Judge Marcos Vinícius Barroso, of the 12th Labor Court of Belo Horizonte, the church practiced bad behavior.

“Whoever exercises a right, but exceeds social goals or in good contractual faith, commits excesses and is responsible for compensating. In this case, the excess was the interference of the accused in the personal life of the claimant, who was forced to carry out the vasectomy procedure and still carry amounts of money in his private car, ”said the magistrate in the file.

Damnation too it was based on a public civil action filed in the 43rd Labor Court of Rio de Janeiro. He aimed to condemn the church for demanding vasectomy tests “from pastors, ministers, employees or workers who are under its legal or hierarchical dependence.”

The Belo Horizonte judge sentenced the church to R $ 50,000 in damages. The institution appealed, claiming that the right to claim compensation was prescribed.

However, the First Panel of the TRT-MG understood that “the damage suffered by the author when performing the vasectomy is a personality damage, being imprescriptible as doctrine and jurisprudence teach us”.

After the trial, the claim returned to the original court for the analysis of the recognition of the employment relationship between the parties.

You notice me the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God said it will appeal the decision and that “the charge of imposing a vasectomy is easily dismissed by the fact that many bishops and universal pastors, at all levels of the Church hierarchy, have children. There are more than 3,000 natural children of members of the church body of the Church. Church” .

The institution also said that Universal encourages family planning and that “most labor courts have a consolidated understanding that it is not possible to recognize labor ties between religious ministers and churches.”

Regarding tithe, the church said that “for security reasons, Universal does not comment on issues related to the transportation of valuables.”