“Why Ghana”, Prelate Queries Concerning Planned Gay and Lesbian Conference

Relating the “Sankofa” initiative to the Gospel reading of the First Sunday of Lent, March 1, Archbishop Kwofie said, “the devil came with all the tricks but couldn’t succeed, while all these were going on, it was at the end of the temptations that the angels came to minister to him. Saint Luke in the scriptural text attests to the fact that “he left for a while”, meaning by that the devil will return at the opportune time to test him again.”

The member of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit (Spiritans) also related the initiative to Jews who held onto their faith and conviction and were willing to die just because they refused to eat pork. He expressed worry that “now, we lack conviction and freely engage in the vices of the world.” 

The activities of LGBTQ have been a concern to many Ghanaians, with some people condemning the community in public. 

One such vociferous anti-LGBTQ activist is Moses Foh-Amoaning, a senior law lecturer and anti-gay rights convener, who has called on the Ghanaian government to deny visas to organizers of an impending conference on LGBTI rights in Accra.

Foh-Amoaning, Executive Director of the National Coalition for Proper Human Sexual Rights and Family Values said the government has to introduce a comprehensive plan to bar gay activities in the country.

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“We will also issue a statement to the South African government, because we hear they are based in South Africa. We will tell them that they cannot misuse our national motives,” Foh-Amoaning said.

Alluding to alleged previous LGBTQ conferences which reportedly failed to materialize, the Ghanaian academic said the planned 2020 conference, similarly wouldn’t take off.

“It is illegal in Ghana. How can you have such a conference here in Ghana? It will not happen, trust me,” he said and probed, “In 2001 they said it will happen but did it happen? Even in those days, we were not organized. What makes them think now that we are organized, they can have it done when they know that the law prohibits it?”

In a 2019 Communique, the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference (GCBC) maintained a harsh stance against the Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE), which they said is aimed to create acceptance around LGBTQ issues.

“We already have an acceptable sex education in our educational system. As a nation, therefore, we must make our position unequivocally clear and put in place measures that will stop those who propagate this evil agenda,” the Bishops said.

The Ghanaian Prelates added in their collected message, “While we recognize that there are people with these abnormal sexual orientations and request that they be treated and helped, we oppose very strongly any CSE that teaches the acceptance of LGBTQ and same sex marriages as normal.”