An Anti -Gay activist Mr. Emmanuel Abankwah Kese (Olumanba) has opined that no right-thinking person will embrace a nation wrecking abominable LGBTQI+ activities.
Speaking on Plan B FM’s late afternoon show EBAANOSEN hosted by Ohene Kinnah, Mr. Abankwa Kese explained that it’s about time we keep our stance as Ghanaians and protect cultural norms and values and not succumb to any pressure from the Western countries because we were living peacefully with our traditions and norms before the white man came and criminalized our norms.
“I’m surprised that most educated elites support this abominable act if your children practice LGBTQI+, will your generation continue? or will you be proud as a father or grandparent if your children and grandchildren practice these LGBTQI+, won’t your entire family and generation be extinct, he quizzes Freddy Blay.
Let’s embrace our norms and culture that allow procreation, he added.
Meanwhile, a former National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Freddie Blay, has asked religious bodies to stop mounting pressure on President Nana Akufo-Addo to sign the Anti-LGBT+ Bill into law.
According to him, by mounting pressure on the president, the religious groups are blackmailing the country with their demand.
On February 28, 2024, parliament passed the Promoting Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, 2024, also known as the anti-gay bill.
The bill when assented into law, will impose up to 10 years of imprisonment on anyone who engages in, supports, or promotes LGBT+ and its activities in Ghana.
Presently, the anti-gay bill is awaiting the president’s assent, although he has said he will wait for the outcome of a legal challenge before deciding on the bill.
But the decision by the president hasn’t sat well with some religious groups and their leaders. By this, they have asked that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo give the bill priority and sign it as soon as possible.
However, the senior NPP member, in an interview with a Kumasi-based TV station, stated that the religious bodies should not threaten or blackmail the president over the bill.
To him, the bill is not a matter of morality but of human rights and tolerance.
“People should not, as it were, threaten to blackmail… of course it is. [The religious bodies] are blackmailing this country by saying, ‘Sign it, throw people to jail.’ Indeed, I would even say that if it’s a question of morality they are talking about, there should be a law on getting people into jail for adultery. Why are they not doing it?” he questioned.
Freddie Blay explained further that adultery is also wrong but it is not criminalized in Ghana.
As a result, he urged society to accept the reality of the existence of LGBT+ people and tolerate them, rather than persecute them.
“Adultery is wrong; why aren’t they making it criminal?… it’s happening, although we frown on it, that you should go and sleep behind your wife or spouse, but it is happening. This is society; it’s happening – the reality of our existence.
“I’m saying if, indeed, there are some people who are members of the LGBT+ tolerate them,” he said.
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