Activities of LGBTQ+ Are Injurious to Society- Bernard Ahiafor

The Member of Parliament for Akatsi South and Ranking member of the Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee, Hon Bernard Ahiafor has said the activities of LBGTQ+ are injurious to human society if not stopped by the laws of the country.

According to him, God in His wisdom created man and woman for procreation and therefore it would be dangerous to the existence of human society if the activities of men having the right to marry men and women had the right to marry women and far extension marry lesser animals.

Hon Ahiafor. made this when he took his turn to contribute in support of the second reading of the Promotion.of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Valies Bill 2021, on Wednesday, July 5, 2023.

The Report of the Constitutional, Legal, and Parliamentary Affairs Committee on the Bill was laid by its Chairman, Hon Kwame Anyimadu-Antwi.

Hon Ahiafor said the Bill is an important bill such that, in his view could have passed the test of a Bill laid under the Certificate of Agency to be passed into law.

He argued that persons who promote the activities of LGBTQ+ have failed to convince the committee under which article, clause, or section of the United Nations (UN) Charter and Convention on Human Rights has been breached by the Bill.

In his considered view, the Bill which sought to prohibit the activities of the LGBTQ+ in Ghana has not breached any law either national or international when passed and became law in Ghana, adding that existing laws in Ghana, especially the 1992 Constitution and the Criminal Code Act 29 are grounds enough to validate the Bill in its form and purpose.

The Akatsi South lawmaker said passing the Bill into law would go a long way to protect the Ghanaian family values and sanitize the society from uncultured and unnatural carnal knowledge practices, arguing that, ” the activities of LGBTQ+ are injurious to human society ” and that countries that allowed such practices would extinct in the 50 years.

He called on his colleagues to support the Bill to be passed into law to save human society not only from sinful activities but from being extinct.

The Bill is being sponsored by eight MPs under the Private Member Bill, seeking Parliament to pass into law against the practices of LGBTQ+ in the country.

The bill will oblige all public and educational institutions to promote ‘proper human sexual rights and family values’.

This includes promoting discredited psychiatric and medical concepts that pathologize LGBTQ+ people and aim to legitimise conversion therapy as a cure for queerness.