The Catholic Bishops of Ghana say they want homosexual practices made illegal in Ghana as they consider them abominable and morally unacceptable.
In a letter dated September 28, 2021, and addressed to the Committee on Constitutional, Legal, and Parliamentary Affairs to support the anti-LGBTQI draft bill, the Catholic Bishops make it clear that their voices must be heard on the matter because the 2010 population census revealed that the Catholic Church in Ghana constitutes a sizeable 13.1 percent of the population in Ghana.
According to the letter, the Catholic Church’s understanding of human rights, the rights of homosexuals as persons do not include the right of a man to marry a man or of a woman to marry a woman. The church maintains that homosexuality is morally wrong and goes against God’s purpose for marriage.
The Catholic Bishops added that it is not right to subject homosexuals to any form of harassment simply because they are homosexuals, they believe that the intrinsic dignity of each person must always be respected in word, in action, and law.
Read the full letter below
