The Executive Secretary of the National Coalition for Proper Human Sexual Rights and Family Values, Mr. Moses Foh Amoaning, has stated that the members of the coalition will graphically demonstrate the act of homosexuality in court to show how the practice is detrimental to Ghanaian society.
Mr. Foh Amoaning’s remarks followed Madam Audrey Gadzekpo’s, threat to take the sponsors and supporters of the anti-LGBTQ bill to court if the bill is passed into law. She stated that the bill is discriminatory to the LGBTQ community and a dent in Ghana’s democracy.
“Ghana is a secular and multi-religious country with over 50 ethnic groups with different cultural practices and beliefs. Any attempt to create a single cultural value system for Ghana erases the beautiful cultural mosaic that makes us a unique people”
Coalition ‘Big 18’
Accordingly, Mr. Moses Foh Amoaning warned that he and the coalition will await Madam Audrey Gadzekpo’s arrival at the Supreme Court. He stressed that the anti-LGBTQ bill detractor would not get the chance to push her propaganda as the coalition would be prepared for her arrival.
“The court will have a look at the things that they do, we are going to graphically show it, we will show how a woman licks the vagina of another woman in sexual activities that they engage in, so Audrey, get ready, we are going to expose all these things”.
Mr. Moses Foh Amoaning
He further indicated that he and his coalition members will expose to Ghanaians the disapproving act Madam Audrey Gadzekpo is trying to propagate. “We will prove the facts and the court will see what you are doing to Ghanaian children” he stated. He stressed that Madam Audrey would not get the chance to make a case for human rights abuse and protection even if she tried.
The Genesis of the Chaos
The anti-LGBTQ bill was passed in parliament on Wednesday, 28th February 2024 after a successful third reading. The bill seeks to protect the cultural values of Ghanaians by ensuring that the practice of LGBTQ does not infiltrate Ghanaian societies.
While the sponsors of the bill are hopeful that the President will sign the bill to make it law, a coalition of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) including the Center for Democratic Development (CDD) that refers to itself as the ‘Big 18’ has petitioned the President not to sign the bill into law.
Moreover, the group argued that the bill would lead to a culture of monitoring and hostility that does not depict the peaceful coexistence that Ghana is best known for. The coalition also asserted that pronouncing a custodial sentence on an offender of a bill is harsh and inhuman.
Furthermore, the detractors of the bill also argued that the bill is self-contradictory. They asserted that the bill on the one hand claims to protect the Ghanaian family but on the other hand separates offenders of the bill from their families by sending them away to serve jail sentences.
On the other side of the ideological spectrum, sponsors of the bill contended that the arguments made by the anti-LGBTQ critic are unfounded. They argued that the 1992 Constitution of Ghana does not grant human rights to its citizens on the premise of sexual preferences.
They further asserted that the Constitution also specifies that the rights of a citizen can be curtailed for public safety and public health. They argued that the practice of LGBTQ is an issue of public safety and health and must be dealt with accordingly.
Moreover, consensus shows that 93% of Ghanaians are in agreement with the passage of the bill. In a democracy, 93% is more than what is needed to let the will of the majority prevail. The sponsors of the bill by this argument stand firm in their belief that the bill is what the majority of Ghanaians want and the bill they shall have.
Conclusively, while Ghana’s Parliament seeks to make history by passing the bill into law regardless of domestic and external opposition, the country can only await the decision of the President to decide the country’s next course of action regarding the Anti-LGBTQ bill.
