One of the sponsors for the anti-LGBTQ+ currently before Parliament, Rockson-Nelson Etse Kwami Dafeamekpor says the activity cannot be stopped completely. 

According to him, it is something people do in their homes that cannot be regulated.

South Dayi MP said whatever people decide to do in their homes, they will not be allowed to bring on the streets with the aim of indoctrinating innocent children. 

Speaking in an interview with Citi TV on Saturday, July 8, insisted that LGBTQ+ has got nothing to do with human right issue. 

“In respect of LGBTQ+, we can’t stop it, but we have to check it, the checking comes in when they do it in their homes, that’s their palaver, but don’t pour onto the streets and seek to indoctrinate innocent children.”

“There are many media including books, cartoons, and films saying that there’s nothing wrong with this conduct. The attempt is that they want to equate this matter to fundamental human rights, which is not. This is a lifestyle choice. When you are born with it, it becomes a medical condition, that is subject to treatment.”

“But some persons are going out of their way to change gender and say that they must have the right to be permitted to feel male or female. They are not ending it there, they want to have a right to determine these things for our children.

"Our children don’t even have voting decisions until they are 18 years. You want to go to schools to teach kids that when they feel a certain way it’s okay. We are inventing the order of nature, and no law on earth permits that,” he explained.

Parliament is currently taking the bill through its processes and procedures outlined in its Standing Orders and in consonance with the provisions of Ghana’s constitution.

Already, the Speaker of Parliament Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin has said Africa is not deterred by the veiled threats of withdrawal of investments and international aid and other stringent economic measures that have attended the continent’s effort at protecting its culture, values, and societal norms and to safeguard the future of its youth.

He was speaking at a meeting with an array of Members of the British House of Lords and the House of Commons at Westminster in London. 

Mr Bagbin told his hosts that the role of Parliament is to receive bills from civil society or interest groups, usually through the process that allows for a Private Member’s Bill, or from the executive.

“There is nothing untoward; nothing wrong with the efforts by Ghana’s Parliament to legislate on the promotion of human sexual rights and family values in Ghana, using our constitution as a compass”, he declared.

“Parliament is aware of the copious human rights provisions in the Constitution of the country. Parliament knows that “any legislation that detracts from the human rights and freedoms guaranteed by our constitution will be a candidate for litigation in our court of law.”