Audio By Carbonatix
Assin South MP, John Ntim Fordjour has raised concern about plans to pressurize government into legalising homosexuality, bestiality and lesbianism.
The MP, who is also the senior pastor of Victory Bible Church International, East Legon branch, has rallied Ghanaians to once again reject the move because it offends religion and the 1992 Constitution.
There is a group in Canada said to be collecting signatures to petition the Canadian government to apply diplomatic pressures on Ghana to legalise same-sex practices deemed offensive.
A Canadian website reported, some Ghanaians showed up a multicultural festival to collect signatures against anti-LGBT laws.
They are seen in a photo holding notepads and pens in Winnipeg, Canada which is home to a flourishing gay community after gay marriage was legalized on July 20, 2005.
"The way they are treating the LGBTQ community in Ghana is so very bad," said Abdulai, who organized the effort. "People get killed [over] their sexual activities."
But the Assin South MP, a debutant in the 2017 parliament, wants Ghanaians to remain alert and resist plans to give same-sex practices legitimacy.
He referred to Article 39 of the 1992 constitutions which detail the country's cultural objectives.
(1) Subject to clause (2) of this article, the State shall take steps to encourage the integration of appropriate customary values into the fabric of national life through formal and informal education and the conscious introduction of cultural dimensions to relevant aspects of national planning.
(2) The State shall ensure that appropriate customary and cultural values are adapted and developed as an integral part of the growing needs of the society as a whole; and in particular that traditional practices which are injurious to the health and well-being of the person of the person are abolished.
He said the practice of homosexuality is being pushed as a human rights issue to infiltrate a society that has already determined it as unacceptable.
The MP said, "there is no culture, there is no tribe, there is no religion in whose doctrines glorify homosexuality, lesbianism and bestiality".
"Let us rise up and raise this awareness…there must be a strong resistance" he said Wednesday on Joy News program, The Pulse.
Homosexuality is a crime in 38 African countries.
Latest Stories
-
Eight dead after US Air Force B-52 bomber crashes in California
35 seconds -
US court clears Ken Ofori-Atta for permanent residency process in immigration ruling
1 minute -
Ghana records weakest Q1 budget execution since 2017 as consolidation bites
11 minutes -
NPP accuses government of selective justice, warns against interference in Sedina Tamakloe’s sentence
13 minutes -
Ashaiman Police arrest two suspects over separate armed robbery attacks
22 minutes -
Port charges hindering access to donated medicines, cancer charity warns
32 minutes -
See the areas that will be affected by ECG’s planned maintenance on Tuesday
40 minutes -
Mahama’s lean government claim misleading when full appointments are considered – Jinapor
46 minutes -
India temporarily bans Telegram over exam paper leak concerns
55 minutes -
The COCOBOD files: A Compendium
56 minutes -
Ghana records at least 13 university student deaths since 2024 as campus safety fears mount
1 hour -
Photos: Mahama oversees 48th Ceremonial Changing of the Guard at Accra Presidency
1 hour -
Tesano Gardens Junction residents call for traffic lights after fatal motorbike crash
2 hours -
Feed Ghana Programme to improve crop productivity through soil testing and efficient fertiliser use
2 hours -
NAPO urges politicians to make realistic promises to avoid public disappointment
2 hours