The Christian community has expressed their excitement about the passage of the Anti-LGBTQ+ bill.

On Wednesday, February 28, after three years, Parliament passed the controversial bill criminalises what proponents of the bill describe as deviate behaviour and its promotion.

This news has been greeted with mixed reactions, with a number of CSOs threatening legal battles should it become law. The group of Civil Society Organisations says the objectives of the bill are unnecessary.

But for the Christian community, the passage has been welcomed as a pleasant and very exciting development.

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Speaking to JoyNews a day after the bill was passed, the Secretary General of the Catholic Bishops Conference, Rev. Father Clement Kwesi Adjei said the church is elated by the passage as it upholds Christian principles.

“The leadership of the Catholic Church is very happy about the passage and hoping that the President will assent to this bill so that it becomes law.

“Congratulations to Parliament for the 100 per cent and that is our objective. From the Christian point of view, the bill seeks to promote what Christianity is all about,” he said.

Former General Secretary of the Christian Council, Rev Dr Kwabena Opuni Frimpong, appealed to the president to pass the bill as most citizens are in support of it.

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“We have seen enough and where we have reached, it's the President who must put this matter to sleep by assenting to the bill.

"Let us build our country. The president raised this, that we must build Ghana Beyond Aid. This is the time... even if people will run away from us with their aid, let them do what in our own consciousness we know this is right for us. Even if we are wrong, we must be sincerely wrong,” he added.