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The Minister Superintendent of the Methodist Church of Ghana, The Right Reverend Maxwell Kwadwo Obeng of the Saint Andrews Society in Tema, called on Ghanaians to save LGBTQ practitioners from death.
He said: “Gay practice is inhuman, it kills the young people of our generation, so there is a need to love them, care for them and be close to them rather than neglecting, ignoring them and bringing them closer to them. to condemn ”.
According to him, through LGBTQ people have been misled and gone astray, and Biblically too, LGBTQ are an abomination to God and he abhorred him.
In an interview with the Ghana News Agency in Tema on the ongoing LGBTQ debate, Reverend Obeng described the act as barbaric, disgusting and unsanitary, “socially it is against our culture as Ghanaians and Africans. We don’t hate them, but their choice is wrong ”.
He said that in terms of health, it left them with all kinds of illnesses; “Even if defenders talk about their rights, which they claim should be respected, the truth is that they have no rights, why? Because the practice is not human, it is simply anti-human rights ”.
He said the church is supporting the LGBTQ bill in parliament “so we pray that it gets passed quickly, which would help us as a country and as an African.”
Reverend Obeng continued that some of the LGBTQ practitioners wanted to quit but felt threatened and as Christians the church could build counseling centers in all regions, to educate them, support them and engage them with the word of God. .
“So now if someone says we should accept a strange way of life, which is an affront to our traditional norms and practices, it goes against our very existence and cannot be accepted in any way. it would be.
“Morally, we have learned that when someone does something that is not good, the white man will say it is inhuman, which means human beings have standards, so now if they ask us to legalize LGBTQ then it’s inhuman, we can’t do it. ”
Earlier this month, the anti-LGBT bill titled: “Promotion of Appropriate Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values, 2021” was tabled in Parliament and passed first reading.
The Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Mr. Andrew Amoako-Asiamah, who presided over the sitting of the House, referred the bill to the Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs for consideration.
The deputies (MP) sponsors of the bill are: Mr. Samuel George Nartey, MP for Ningo-Prampram; Ms. Della Sowah, MP for Kpando; Mr. Emmanuel Kwasi Bedzra, deputy for Ho West; and Mr. Alhassan Suhuyini, MP for Tamale North.
The others are; Ms. Rita Odorley Sowah, MP for La Dadekotopon; Reverend John Ntil Fordjour, MP for Assin-South, Ms. Helen Adjoa-Ntoso, MP for Karachi West, and Mr. Rockson-Nelson Etse Dafeamekpor, MP for South Dayi.
The bill, among others, seeks to strengthen and augment the country’s existing penal code legislation that criminalizes consensual “unnatural fleshly acquaintances” with persons over 16 years of age under Article 104 of the Law. Criminal Offenses Act 1960 (Act 29) as amended. by Law 646 of 2003.
The bill should ensure that people who engage in homosexual activity could be fined or sentenced to three to five years in prison.
The bill, if passed, would also criminalize anyone identified as lesbian, gay, transgender, transsexual, queer, pansexual or non-binary (LGBTQ) and face up to five years in prison.
In addition, advocating for LGBTQ rights would also be illegal if the bill passes, with activists facing prison terms ranging from five to 10 years.
—GNA
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