Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has said the spread of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) activities in the country can be traced to financial hardships.
He said population increase, coupled with the inability of the economy to sustain life in many ways, had led to hardships, as a result of which people tended to care more about survival than morality.
The former President said this during a call on him by the leadership of the National Coalition for Proper Human Sexual Rights and Family Values to officially invite him to a national dialogue on LGBT in the country, scheduled for October 29, this year.
The team, which was led by the Executive Secretary and Spokesperson for the coalition, Mr Moses Foh-Amoaning, also included a former Chairman of the Church of Pentecost, Apostle Dr Opoku Onyinah.
Moral values
Former President Kufuor added that due to the challenging economic situation, parents hardly cared about imparting morals to their children.
“Now parents have to wake up early to go to work. By 4 a.m. some have to leave home and sometimes their children, some of whom may be as young as six months old, are sent to crèche without any regard for the value systems of caretakers.
“We have reached an era when parents rarely live with their children to teach them morals and exhibit parental authority on them. Due to this, most children have become vulnerable and they copy some cultures, including LGBT, which are alien to the African society,” he added.
He advised that people be empowered financially to enable them to take care of themselves and their families, while inculcating moral and religious values in their children.
Support
Mr Kufuor expressed support for the activities of the coalition, explaining that the practice of LGBT was unnatural and that if it was allowed to fester in society, it could destroy the family and African value system.
“If we want society to continue, then we must understand that a man cannot give birth, likewise a woman cannot impregnate her fellow woman. They can adopt a baby and act as parents, but that will all be pretence and never genuine,” he said.
Response
Mr Foh-Amoaning said there was the need for a comprehensive national and Pan-Africanist response to the phenomenon of LGBT.
“Fortunately, all our past and current Presidents have rejected the legalisation of this act. We need to look at it from a comprehensive view point and have a legal backing to support the resistance.
“The Eurocentric view is that LGBT activities are lifestyle and they like it. That is fine with them, but we in Africa believe that LGBT is a psycho-social problem and very unnatural. There are antidotes to these conditions and people can be treated,” he said.
According to him, if LGBT practitioners were allowed to take hold of children, the children would grow up with such mentality, adding: “We must make sure they don’t win the minds of our children because when that happens, it will enter society and end up affecting us.”
National dialogue
Mr Foh-Amoaning explained that it was part of efforts to stem the tide that his association was calling for a national dialogue on the theme: ‘The African family and sustainable development — Strong family, strong nations’, to put together a comprehensive Afrocentric response to LGBT practitioners.
Source: Daily Graphic
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When kufuor came to power he was following the white man like a DOG? When he had gold, oil, bauxite, timber in aboundance.
By the time this man left office the cedi had lost 80 percent of it value as he came to meet it. You rundown the nation and expect the people to be what?
This man came to power without a single strategy. You had 8 years and when you were leaving office Ghanaians became poorer so your party lost the elections. All the so called social interventions was handed to him by the European aid agencies.
This man dey bring himself! If your parents had time to train you you wouldn't negotiate for 5 percent for our oil and then negotiate for yourself 4 percent through the EO group. If your parents had time to train you you wouldn't go in for the millennium challenge nonsenss that is forcing us to sell our most strategic assert. The sale of w
Ghanaians are decent people who are not prepared to trade our eternity for gold. If it's about getting money like Tim Cook, Ghanaians can easily get that by joining your cult group too. We want to be rich but not gay rich. We will continue to wait for God's help and time rather than switch to LGBTQ lifestyle in order to get money. We know we have God on our side
Why are you cultists pushing CSE soo full of yourselves and arrogant? Who says people who didn't read rejected CSE? We read and studied diligently both the cse document released as well as its counterparts in other nations and followed closely the guidelines on cse by UNESCO. The result is the same. It's a pure agenda to eliminate what is left of morality and introduce LGBTQ into Ghana. Please those of you who are holding fake degrees have no right to tell the rest of us that we don't read
Well said but I guess you also don't understand what the former president said. He put the matter in our context as Ghanaians or Africans with abject poverty greeting most of our peoples on hourly basis. In that situation, if a CCRAZZY guy with WARPED BRAINS (my description LLGGBBTT infested people) doles out a few dollars in exchange for "BACK" actions, he is most likely to succeed. At the governmental level, our leaders should stop the daylight robbery in the name of KORRUPTION which forces them to access loans from these whites because they tend to make conditions for you to bend the ageless tested cultural values that govern our social and moral lives as a people.
Mr Smith, there is nothing wrong with CSE. It's the un-reading Ghanaian population that made this an issue. No school in the world teaches LGBTIQ. I am sure you're a saint. More importantly, the former president really does not understand issues well, perhaps. Tim Cook is a gay! Is he poor?
JAK, you recently almost backed CSE. You are now taking a U turn. LGBT and hardships, I agree with you. I know a man whose son was "trumulized" by some European dude. He was silenced with a used pick up truck.
Good stance Mr president Kuffuor