The chairman of the National Peace Council, Reverend Emmanuel Asante, has said it is wrong to hate members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) family.
Rev. Asante stressed although their sexual preference is illegal per Ghana’s constitution, it does not warrant the sort of barbaric treatment metered out to them.
A recent report by Human Rights Watch said the LGBTs are treated as second-class citizens due to what it termed “colonial-era laws that criminalizes same-sex activity.” Human Rights Watch is therefore questioning the retention of section 104 of the Criminal Offences Act since that is thwarting efforts to protect the rights of members of the LGBTI community.
Speaking on Morning Starr on Thursday, January 11, 2018, Rev. Asante condemned discrimination and abuse of LGBTs.
“Love homosexuals but hate homosexuality,” the Peace Council chairman told host Francis Abban.
The man of God believes we cannot hate LGBTs and at the same time seek to change them.
“I believe they can be helped psychologically. We shouldn’t look at them as enemies or beasts. They have rights and are human beings. It’s illegal and we can’t condone it but we can help them,” Rev. Asante preached.
However, he warned the government to be mindful of attempts by LGBTs to influence donors to put pressure on it to relax rules against them.
“I’ll urge the government not to give in to international pressure of things that will bring in things of this nature. The religious bodies should strengthen their evangelism,” Rev. Asante added.
Dozens of LGBT people have been attacked by mobs or by members of their own families, Human Rights Watch reported. In August 2015, in Nima, a town in the Accra region, members of Safety Empire, a vigilante group, brutally assaulted a young man they suspected was gay. In May 2016, in a village outside Kumasi in the Ashanti region, the mother of a young woman organized a mob to beat up her daughter and another woman because she suspected they were lesbians and in a same-sex relationship. The two young women were forced to flee the village.
Source: starnews
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By their speech, you shall know them. We can now believe that, very era and its kind of people, NPP and Nana Addo wanted to legalese the gay and lesbianism, because the director of operations in the flagstaff house is a renowned "***barred word***". Man who as made his name all over Accra township. Now you the spiritual leader, whom per you statement, makes you a GUY, wants to turn the words in the biblical book around to justify your selfish and disgraceful ambition.... Shame on you, we Ghanian Christians, Moslems, traditionalist all leave you to our Maker.....
CAN WE BELIEVE OUR MEN OF GOD ANY LONGER? THIS IS TOTALLY TO BE CONDEMNED. REV. YOU SHOULD BOW YOUR HEAD IN SHAME FOR TURNING AGAINST OUR GOD AND HE IS VERY MUCH AWARE OF WHAT YOU DO AND YOU SHALL SURELY ACCOUNT FOR IT
what did u say during Atta mills time of presidency?u did condemned this bad practice so why now saying this.yes they are humans and cannot beat them.not expecting this fr you
THE WORD FOR TODAY FRIDAY JANUARY 12, 2018. "DON’T LABEL PEOPLE—LOVE THEM" “We have stopped evaluating others from a human point of view.” 2Corinthians 5:16 NLT IF YOU tend to associate only with “your own kind,” think about this: “We have stopped evaluating others from a human point of view.” Jesus went miles out of His way to meet a Samaritan woman at a well. From a cultural and religious point of view, it was a bad move. First, she’d been divorced five times so she had a tarnished reputation. Second, she was a Gentile. And in those days a Jew couldn’t drink water drawn by Gentiles or eat their food. Jewish physicians couldn’t attend to non-Jewish patients. Jews actually referred to Gentiles as “unclean,” believing that by mixing with them they too would become unclean. But Jesus was all about including people, not excluding them: “The Word became flesh and blood, and moved into the neighborhood” (John 1:14 TM). Jesus touched lepers, loved foreigners, and spent so much time with partygoers that religious leaders called him a “lush, a friend of the riffraff” (Matthew 11:19 TM). Jesus didn’t label people; He loved them. And when you follow Him, He puts His finger on your prejudices and makes you deal with them. That’s because He wants to change the way you look at people, not seeing them as Jews or Gentiles, insiders or outsiders, liberals or conservatives, etc. “We have stopped evaluating others from a human point of view.” Today you may come across some discarded people like the woman at the well. They may have been thrown out of church, or just turned off by the church. And you’ll have a chance to label them or love them. Honor God—and love them! Soul Food Reading Lev 18-20, Matt 6: 9-18, Ps 71: 1-16, Pro 2 : 1-2.
But who is infringing on their right. Or Ghanaians are killing them when they are found. And everyone in this world has right but some people are in prison because we think what they have done is against the society. They same should go to those who want to destroy our future and unborn generation. So please stop preaching gay right because everyone has his right but some are in prison.