News:
May 24, 2018
Member of Parliament for Effutu, Alexander Afenyo-Markin has said as Ghanaians we are being hypocrites in our crusade against homosexuality.
According to the Effutu legislator, pastors have failed to wage open campaign against homosexuality and said the same thing against Muslim clerics.
He further added that those supporting homosexuality are proactive and are making their views heard and pointed out that not even a single media house in Ghana had boldly and consistently talked about homosexuality.
“Those against it their voices are not loud enough, today we say we are against it, are we talking about it in our schools, primary and JSH, is it one of the core subjects, is it regular talk in our schools. We should move away from rhetorics and deal with the issue”
He noted that President Nana Akufo-Addo said in an interview that, in the 60s no one deer talked about homosexuality in the United Kingdom, but in the late 1990s people started talking about it, it because it is a political issues.
In public may be people would pretend, as we know it is a way of life of some people, “responsible people in our society that is what they think they are and they have their justification and you cannot go and impose your views on them”, he lamented.
When you say it’s wrong, you should be firm in your views, we have said the law frown on it, the law as I have read is not clear enough and with my limited knowledge is not clear enough, I do not want to go to the law, but use morality as the opponent are using if we are serious about the issue we should demonstrate commitment, I rest my case, he said.
By: Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com