Chief Policy Analyst, Ghana Institute of Public Policy Options says that he is on the fence regarding the LGBTQ topic and that he is neither for the banning nor legalisation of the Anti-LGBTQ+ bill.

In his view, he is tolerant of people who subscribe to the LGBTQ+ phenomenon.

Joining discussions on Newsfile on JoyNews Saturday, Dr Charles Wereko-Brobby advised Ghanaians in taking a stance on the ongoing debates surrounding the passing of the bill.

According to him, he respects the rights of people who hold certain very strong views to try to push a certain narrative and that he would not take a stance on whether he opposes to or for the bill.

"I’m almost 70 years old. I grew up in Kumasi where the society of the early 1960s were tolerant of Kojo 'basias' (Gay men).

"Through to the 80s and 90s in Ghana where the most popular nightspots were then spots where there were open gays mixing with open heterosexuals, and everybody tolerated each other.

"To the time that I did Ghana at 50, where again there was great tolerance of different types of people in the society. So I’m always for tolerance. I’m very much much against intolerance," he said.

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Since persons on the LGBTQ+ spectrum make a minority, he is of the belief that tyranny of the majority should not be a yardstick, and that protection of minority is very important.

"I don’t think we should be having certainties based on our so-called moral perspective and our religious preference. What is Morality in Ghana? I don’t think that there’s a particular morality that defines us as a people.

"We have different religions, we have different ethnic groups, we have different many many things, which also tend to affect what becomes what our moralities are depending on where we’re coming from."

He said that he does not encourage Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin to take a stance on the debate.

"I don’t like the way the Australian person threatened the Honourable (Mr Samuel George), and neither do I like the way in which the Speaker of Parliament, who is supposed to be neutral in my view to ensure that different discourse and different perspectives, has decided that he would become the champion of a particular bill. I’m not too clear about that."