President of the Ghana Pentecostal and Charismatic Council (GPCC), Apostle Eric Nyyamekye, who also serves as the Chairman of The Church of Pentecost, has said that the Council is waiting to see what the Members of Parliament will do, with regards to the Proper Human Sexual Rights & Ghanaian Family Values Bill, also known as the Anti-Gay Bill.
“Our position on LGBTQI is clear, we have made it clear already that we are behind the bill and we are for the bill. We are waiting for what our legislators will do but I pray that they will do the needful.”
Apostle Eric Nyamekye
The First Vice Chair of the GPCC, Apostle Gordon Kisseih, also said the Council is not unbiased when it comes to issues of gayism and lesbianism and thus, they stand by their core values since childbirth and upon the word of God.
“Since the family is the basic unit of life and the home is where families are nurtured, it is critical to note that any attempt to change the definition of man, woman, boy, girl, or marriage will be an attack on the family and an attack on the foundation which holds us, as a family together.
“GPCC is not neutral, GPCC has a stance. Let it be clear to all that GPCC has a stance against LGBTQI.”
Apostle Gordon Kisseih
Parliament Yet To Decide On Anti-Gay Bill
Ghana’s Parliament is seeking to pass the Proper Human Sexual Rights & Ghanaian Family Values Bill, also known as the Anti-Gay Bill. The committee’s report on the Bill was laid in Parliament, before it went on recess on Friday March 31.
Ranking Member on the Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee of Parliament, Rockson Nelson Dafeamekpor, in a post averred “Join us and pray for us.”
Earlier, another ranking Member on Committee, Bernard Ahiafor, assured the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, that the committee would not be intimidated by anyone from doing its work in relation to the Anti-Gay Bill.
Mr. Ahiafo, who claimed to be a lawyer, is full of indomitable spirits and preaches that he cannot be intimidated by anyone nor anything whatsoever.
Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, earlier told the Constitutional not to be intimidated by anyone regarding the Anti-Gay Bill and asked them to report back directly to him, if any of them encountered any challenges.
He assured that the constitution states empathetically the directions, through which bills are passed and as such, the Members of Parliament might not follow the same way of passage like the Ugandans but will still end up implementing the bill because any law passed against the constitution, “is unconstitutional.”
His comments came at a time President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, dissociated from the Anti-Gay Bill. Proposed under a Private Members’ Bill, the anti-gay bill is expected to criminalize some of the activities of homosexuals in Ghana.
Answering a question put to him at the Jubilee House on Monday, March 27, when US VP Kamala Harris visited, President Akufo-Addo confirmed by saying that “the bill is currently before Parliament, which will be decided upon,” and he claimed that most of its provisions were being fine-tuned.
“It hasn’t been passed, so the statement that there is legislation in Ghana to that effect is not accurate,” he said. “Parliament is dealing with it and at the end of the process, I will come in,” he added.
This response by the President, brought forth responses by the masses, including the Speaker of Parliament, who asked the President to stay out of the business of Parliament and allow the MPs perform their duty. Others also going against the answer of the President, said that he (Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo), did not either reply well or speak to the best interest of the Ghanaian people.
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