Ghana cracks down on gays
Ghana’s Western Region Minister, Paul Evans Aidoo MP has ordered the immediate arrest of all homosexuals in the country’s west.
Aidooo has tasked Ghana’s Bureau of National Investigations and security forces to round up the country’s gay population and has called on landlords and tenants to inform on people they suspect of being homosexuals.
“All efforts are being made to get rid of these people in the society,” he said.
The move by the Minister follows months of campaigning by the Christian Council of Ghana which last week called on Ghanaians not to vote for any politician who believes in the rights of homosexuals.
Muslims and Christians in the Western Region have been staging protests ever since a local media report claimed there were around 8000 homosexuals and lesbians in the district.
However, a lawyer at Kwame Nkrumah University, Ernest Kofi Abotsie, questioned the legality of the move.
Abotsie said laws outlawing “unnatural canal knowledge” in the Ghanaian criminal code were ambiguous and had not been defined to mean homosexuality, and it was wrong for politicians to be telling police how to carry out their duties.
Note to Wait A Sec about your Biblical quotes:
These are false renderings of the KJV English and not based on any biblical manuscript evidence whatsoever. Until the 19th century, there was no word AT ALL for a homosexual. The use of “homosexual” in the new bible versions is purely a personal bias on the part of the authors. The problem is that most Christians are under the naive impression that a book that says “Holy Bible” on the cover must be a Holy Bible. Nothing could be further from the truth; most were translated from corrupted and scholarly-denounced manuscripts (such as the Septuagint LXX, the Vaticanus and Sinaiticus). http://www.gaychristiansurvivors.com/
Kwame I don´t think a religious way is the future for Ghana. Maybe if government of Ghana was not infected with this kind of religion, Ghana could develop from a dependent country to be an independendt country with well educated people, without financial help from America and Britain. I personally hope that this countrys attitude about people (some gays, some bisexuals and some transgenders) will be gratuated in a way, that your dogmatic stupid government, will not receive a penny from our countries, before this country show respect for all people. By the way your country export a lot of problems to our country/ drugdealers and prostitutes, do you want them in return? As Jesus said: let the person without sin throw the first stone.
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Sounds like Jim Wallace and the ACL have been giving policy advise
I think most of you have read the story and not really gone into details or made any background checks.I an ghanaian and a Christian and reading through the comments here makes me sad that people will categorise us as uncivilised based on one person’s views.Legally, the Regional minister cannot order the Bureau of national investigations to effect arrests,that is above his mandate also as in some countries in the west and even some states in the usa, homosexuality is not legalised.Having Said that, culturally we as a people frown on certain practices and would oppose any steps to legalise it and rightly so as in democratic principles.The story has been turned around to make it seem like there are no anti gay politicians in Australia, Uk,and the Usa.Ghana Currently is one of the most democratic countries in africa and we run a centralised government system so the regional minister will always have to answer to the president or even the minister for the interior on issues like this.We have a very strong judiciary and any gay person who feels persecuted can seek redress in court.From my Christian Perspective, even though I do not condone homosexuality, ostracising them is not the answer because i believe we all are perpetrators of other sins so it is not in our power to judge.Withdrawing Foreign Aid from Ghana will not adversely affect the country as some of you may wrongly think. The lack of development in the country is not because we lack resources but due to mismanagement of these resources including foreign aid.And to Allay your Fears, We have the Death penalty but no prisoner on death row has been executed in the last 20years and the likelyhood of a genocide of anykind happening is nil
I think most of you have read the story and not really gone into details or made any background checks.I an ghanaian and a Christian and reading through the comments here makes me sad that people will categorise us as uncivilised based on one person’s views.Legally, the Regional minister cannot order the Bureau of national investigations to effect arrests,that is above his mandate also as in some countries in the west and even some states in the usa, homosexuality is not legalised.Having Said that, culturally we as a people frown on certain practices and would oppose any steps to legalise it and rightly so as in democratic principles.The story has been turned around to make it seem like there are no anti gay politicians in Australia, Uk,and the Usa.Ghana Currently is one of the most democratic countries in africa and we run a centralised government system so the regional minister will always have to answer to the president or even the minister for the interior on issues like this.We have a very strong judiciary and any gay person who feels persecuted can seek redress in court.From my Christian Perspective, even though I do not condone homosexuality, ostracising them is not the answer because i believe we all are perpetrators of other sins so it is not in our power to judge.Withdrawing Foreign Aid from Ghana will not adversely affect the country as some of you may wrongly think. The lack of development in the country is not because we lack resources but due to mismanagement of these resources including foreign aid.And to Allay your Fears, We have the Death penalty but no prisoner on death row has been executed in the last 20years and the likelyhood of a genocide of anykind happening is nil.
If this were a truly Christian nation there would be love for all one’s neighbors, even for their enemies. This is a movement based on hate, ignorance & superstition.
This action IS totally in keeping with what Islam teaches – that gay people should be killed (along with those who leave Islam, raped women, women who marry non-Muslims, among others). It would be interesting to see what the proportion of Muslims to Christians actually is.
The article doesn’t say but I wonder if this so-called ‘Christian’ group behind this is from the US, like the ones that pushed a similar hate measure in Uganda.
It does sound just like Nazi Germany, which also killed 10s of 1000s of gays who were classified as ‘subhumans’.
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KWAME- “My question to the west, must the african countries continue to kowtow to any stupid and inhuman lifestyle of the west and embrace them just because they can give us aid.”
Short answer: YES. We’re not going to sit back and watch while you persecute a group of people who we love and accept as our brothers and sisters, our sons and daughters, our aunts and uncles, and then pay you to do it.
You must understand, in western countries, homosexuals are not shadowy figures, but people who we pass in the street, who we work with at our jobs, and who we buy things from in the shops, every day.
Maybe if your police busied themselves chasing down corrupt politicians instead of harassing consenting adults for what they do in the privacy of their bedrooms, you wouldn’t need our aid in the first place?
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@Lerab
Sodom and Gamora is the story of male rape, of not being polite, much like yourself. So watch out with your comments, you might be killed. But then again who wrote Sodom and Gamora? Have a think about it.
And before you cry Leviticus, it refers to male prostitution in the temple. Go read it without the chapters, as it was originally written. And then have think who wrote that also.
Old stories past down, Chinese Whispers, and this is the backbone of a religion people use to hate others….
It reminds me of Julia Gillard, sending Same-Sex attracted refugees to Malaysia to face canning if they dare to make love in their years of detention. They can have the flesh torn from their body. Even our Prime Minister supports acts of torture against people on the basis of their sexuality. Federal Labor supports torture of Same-Sex people.
And where is the Rudd clan? Writting letters calling us NAZI’s.
I offer my ass so that ‘gayhater’ can fuck me. I know he will enjoy it.
There are lots of unfair and ignorant comments about the issue of homosexualism in Ghana. Firts of all is not nobody monitored them as one commentator implied. It was a group of people who voluntrary registered with an NGO as homosexuals. The Minister has no right to have them arrested since they have not broken any law by being homosexuals. Indeed he himself stated this clearly that they should be sent to court which will come to nothing.
Indeed they should be grateful to him since it will enable the courts to clear the ambiguity in the law regarding homosexual practices in the country. Should it be declared legal, the problem would have been solved otherwise parlaiment would have to come out with new laws banning the practice. This would be very unlikely due to international pressure.
As it stands the vast majority of Ghanaians are against homosexuality no matter what the outside world thinks and no amount of external threat will change that.
i am a Ghanaian and living the Takoradi and I fully support the Minister. My question to the west, must the african countries continue to kowtow to any stupid and inhuman lifestyle of the west and embrace them just because they can give us aid?. Ghana is and has continued to be one of the most religious countries in africa and will not in any way embrace such stupid culture from the west. WHY GAY ? I am sure that in about 5 to 10years time the western world will be thinking of embracing bestialism, sex with animals, shame on the West. As long as Both the Moslem and Christians agree to be against gay in Ghana, then we will continue to search for all the gays and lesbians and punish them!! GHANA IS NOT AMERICA NOR BRITAIN…. i know for sure that one day God himself will punish these western countries who embrace these kind of practices so hard like he did to Sodom and Gomorah in the bible days… there is nothing new under the sun… God bless Ghana to wipe out all gays from the country !!!!!
I think Australia should do this too…..
Following my last comment, here is a better link updating matters WITH REAL REFERENCES
ttp://madikazemi.blogspot.com/2011/07/audio-in-ghana-is-it-getting-worse-for.html
I hope that ALL foreign aid to Ghana for civilized countries cease and desist immediately until this crap is halted.
i am a Ghanaian and living the Takoradi and I fully support the Minister. My question to the west, must the african countries continue to kowtow to any stupid and inhuman lifestyle of the west and embrace them just because they can give us aid. Ghana is and has continued to be one of the most religious countries in africa and will not in any way embrace such stupid culture from the west. WHY GAY ? As long as Both the Moslem and Christians agree to be against gay in Ghana, then we will continue to search for all the gays and lesbians and burn them!! GHANA IS NOT AMERICA NOR BRITAIN…. i know for sure that one day God himself will punish these western countries who embrace these kind of practices so hard like he did to Sodom and Gomorah in the bible days… there is nothing new under the sun… God bless Ghana to wipe out all gays from the country !!!!!
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A stark reminder – God erased Sodom and Gamora from existence. Maybe it was a no gay tolerance act !
Before you all start getting worked up over this being a humans rights issue and act like that is your all in all for discerning matters, why not consider what God says about the sin of homosexuality? Sure, it is no different than any other sin in the sense that it is an abomination to God and that He hates it, but again, why aren’t you concerned with Him? I mean, it is Him that gives you breath and that allows things to be in the way that they are.
I bet half you don’t even take this into consideration. One guy compared “gay” people with “jews” or “blacks” or whatever. Ummm…. NO. The act that makes a person “gay” is a sin. The skin color of a black man is NOT sin. Do you understand that? Because if you do not, then you are so confused about the true reality of this world and may God have mercy on your soul if you die with this unbiblical grasph. For to do so would clearly demonstrate your lostness outside of being in Christ for salvation and the Bible is clear… anyone who dies outside of Christ is lost and will spend an eternity in Hell.
Go ahead and hit your thumbs down icon and deny it all you want. All you are doing is suppressing the truth through your unrighteous self-centered behavior. Truly people, there is hope. It is found through Jesus Christ. You aren’t gonna “earn” your way by your good deeds. You must recieve Christ by grace through faith and recieve His imputed righteousness, that is your own hope of being Justified before God. Repent and believe. This applies to all walks of life, every single human being.
Take heed and read below.
1 Corinthians 6:9-10
English Standard Version (ESV)
9Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, 10nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
Romans 3:23-26
English Standard Version (ESV)
23for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. 26It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
I love the haters. They are gutlessly anonymous. I would respect them somewhat if they had the balls to stand up for what they say they believe. They also may be interested in researching the Psychology Today study that proved that homophobes are highly aroused by gay porn. I’ll make it easy for you here’s the link http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-big-questions/201106/homophobic-men-most-aroused-gay-male-porn
And Ghana is not a Christian Nation, because it ignores the words of Christ. He says they will never find salvation if they judge anyone, because that is God’s job; read The parable of the Weeds. You may remember that he also said to Love your neighbours and your enemies. He also was very fond of the Golden Rule – which basically says do unto others as you would have them do to you. They are sad. They are full of self loathing. I feel sorry for them. They love gay people because it’s a place to see themselves in a mirror.
Yasir, Australia might be a large country but with very limited resources. We are 2/3 Desert. There has been a large drop in English/ Irish visa stayers in the last few years. Australia has probelms of its own. We too have poverty, neglect and violence and our large cities are over crowded. I congratulate New Zealand for its no Illegals policy!
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Aaron Arathoon，you are right on, I would like to write them a letter telling them how bad they are.
But the link did not work?
Anyhow, I will also write amnesty international to voice my concern.
As well as my government.
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I have read that Ghana also has concentration camps for witches. Not all that progressive of a country there, are you? Democracy only works with an enlightened populace.
Do you have any nameable sources for any of the information in this story. I looked up the CC of Ghana and see their featured social project is “REDUCING HIV AND AIDS RELATED STIGMA AND DISCRIMINATION AMONG VULNERABLE GROUPS: A LOCAL RIGHTS-BASED COMMUNICATION STRATEGY (CSCF 446)” http://www.christiancouncilofghana.org/social.html
It wouldn’t surprise me if there were a disconnect between Ghana and HQ in London but still it would be good to see more details.
Ed: This story was based on reports in the Ghanaian news media, both print and radio.
This is amazing. How could the people of Ghana allow this to happen in their country. They have been a beacon in this volatile region of West Africa for the past few decades and just as they are about to make some oil money, voila!!! there is the homo. I am sorry but if the adults in the room don’t stand up for the weak, then they shouldn’t expect anyone to stand up for them when the world bullies knock on their door ……
I am not gay and I am a Christian but I believe there is no justification for this. Please, my fellow Christians remember that God can and always will take care of himself and all He asks of us is to love our neighbors and share the gospel with one another.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+6%3A44&version=NKJV
We shouldn’t expect everyone to share our faith but we should share our love.
Thanks and please call the Ghana government and let him know that Ghana is and should not become a theocracy.