The Speaker of Parliament, Professor Mike Ocquaye, has called for the amendment of Ghana’s laws to completely ban homosexuality and make it illegal.
According to the Speaker, who doubles is also a pastor, the despicable act is against the country’s culture and cannot be accepted.
Speaking during a courtesy call by the Royal House Chapel led by its founder Rev. Sam Korankye Ankrah, Prof. Ocquaye, said existing legislations are not clear on the illegality of the practice.
“It is unfortunate that people have become so liberal that they will want to liberalise Christianity…even priests are approving of homosexuality and allowing men to marry men, a woman and a woman to marry and these are manifest abominations.
“I trust that with your kind of insistence, the Parliament of Ghana…will find its way clear in strengthening the laws to ban homosexuality as they exist. As for this, may God forbid that it becomes a Ghanaian culture,” Prof. Oquaye said.
Ghana’s laws are silent on homosexuality but persons found to be engaging in such acts are mostly attacked and brutally assaulted.
Most African countries also frown on the act and in some countries people suspected to be homosexuals are jailed or killed.
Source: The Finder
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Instead of focusing on big issues like clean water, sanitation, electricity, health care, road safety, and jobs for the people of Ghana, we are concerned about what two adults are doing in their bedrooms. Your religion is between you and God and not with anyone else. If men and women want to sleep with each other, that is their own business and between them and God. Heck, God let's his sun shine on of of us sinners. He without sin cast the first stoone, Jesus said. Most Africans keep casting stones as if they are without sin. All sins are equal in God's eyes for the record. So stop casting stones. Now before all you small minded people start calling me a lesbian, l am not a lesbian. To stand up for someone does not make you one. I am married to a man. I am blessed. The reason why I stand up for gays and lesbians is to hopefully stop people from abusing and killing human beings for being different. God is tolerating all of us sinners. So who are you to be casting stones at someone. Everyone should be focusing on their own sins because there's a lot there. Leave others to focus on their sins. As long as gays and are not physically hurting someone, no police should be arresting them for who they were created to be. For those of you who believe in God, you should know that God is love.God loves each and everyone of us. We must also love one another which is included in the ten commandments. So called pastors should know that God is love and using the name of God to condemn people is a danger to people's lives. People do use the Bible quotations to kill others thinking that it is justified by God. Oh Africa. Let's learn how to protect the vulnerable.
This view Prof. Ocquaye is very absurd to say the least. If a Pastor and a political guru can say such a thing then we are doomed as a nation. If the Almighty God shines the sun and rains the rain on all manner of persons, how dare you a mortal being say such things about your fellow human beings. Such extremism has no place in the society of civility. If your view is just as those walking the streets with no knowledge, that is acceptable but for a learned person and a pastor spewing such unfortunate statement, then its very very sad. Beware, God did not create you differently from LGBT's unless you want us to believe that you are human than others. If that is the case then fair deal but remember in the sight of God all humans are the same. You are not human than any human being.