A priest of Ghana’s Catholic Diocese of Koforidua has vowed to lead a demonstration if Members of Parliament try to legalize lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender, queer (LGBTQ+) in Ghana.
The Priest-in-charge of the Saint Mary’s Parish at Asamankese, Rev. Fr. James Buah Nkwantabisa in a homily on Sunday, November 28, the First Sunday of Advent, said the Catholic Church is very consistent and would never be compromised to the dictate of the world to endorse the activities of Homosexuality in Ghana.
He charged Christians not to be conformed any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of their mind, then they will be able to test and approve what God’s will is–his good, pleasing and perfect will.
He stressed the need to use the freedom of human beings very well in accordance with the will to dictate God’s love and responsible freedom.
The priest said, “man want to Mary man. Why God created Man and woman. We should stop discussion about them because we are making them popular.”
Fr. Buah Nkwantabisa said because of freedom and human right, people are killing their colleagues for rituals and said Ghanaians should stop the easiest way of getting money and suffer to gain.
He said Authorities must not abuse their position and laws of the Country must be enforced without favouritism.
The Catholic Bishops of Ghana in a letter dated September 28, 2021 said they want homosexual practices made illegal in Ghana as they consider them abominable and morally unacceptable.
The 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.
In October this year, the Ghana National Catholic Youth Council (GHANCYC) also made public its support towards the Anti-LGBTQIA bill before the parliament.
GHANCYC, which represents Catholic youth in Ghana, has thrown its support behind its leadership, the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference (GCBC), on the current LGBTQIA+ brouhaha in the country.
In the statement, the Council promised it’s unflinching support to the Catholic Bishops in the passage of the bill to help promote Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values. They said, legalizing LGBTQIA+ was a threat to the basic unit of the society i.e. the family, and called for the support of all youth of the catholic church and the country in criminalizing it.
GHANCYC also called on individuals involved in these ‘abominable’ acts, but need help, to leave the practice and take advantage of the intervention/ treatment options for the Catholic Bishops wish to offer them. The youth council also pledged its support and readiness to help all especially those who are victims of this ‘sexual disorder’ and genuinely require psychological, medical or other interventions.
The Council called on individuals with large platforms to also educate the public. It advised that the media be circumspect in their reportage on the issue, always crosschecking information before publishing and to always promote peaceful coexistence of religious bodies in the country, citing the recent misrep
