Ghana is presently caught in a cultural storm and Ghana, our beloved country is beginning to drown in an identity crisis. We have grown men claim that they are women, dress in high heels and wigs; and grown women claim they are men. The new culture, LGBTQI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex), here simply referred to as homosexuality, is threatening and assaulting our morals, biological reality, our sovereignty, dragging all of us to a place where the majority do not want to go.
Surprisingly, anal and oral sex is having a cultural moment.
Indeed, this is one embarrassing moment in our history. This is the sign of the times; a tiny minority is taking advantage of a decadent society to impose sexual orientation and gender preferences, challenging every belief we hold sacrosanct, from the existence God, creation and family – the very foundation of society, as we have known for the past thousands of years. In these times, nothing is sacrosanct. Nothing is right and wrong.
Homosexuality, the quality of being attracted sexually to people of one’s own sex in ooder to have anal or oral sex, violates our traditional religious and moral beliefs, Christianity and Islam. Now, advocates are going to war with all three. Sex was personal, secret and sacred and between a biological man and biological woman.
The 1992 Ghanaian Constitution describes anal or oral sex, as ‘unnatural canal knowledge’ and declared illegal. The practice has been around for ages but in subtle ways underground. In Ghana, some practitioners combine satanic rituals to the act, under the guise of religious worship.
Now, homosexuals and their backers want a redefinition and law that protects them not only from criminal arrest, but also from discrimination while at the same time taking away the right of individuals who oppose the act from making moral judgements about gender or marriage, consistent with their religious belief. If the homosexuals have their way, it would be a crime, punishable by imprisonment, to describe marriage as an only heterosexual union, or to describe same sex marriage as wrong.
To legalise or not to legalise the practice is the question. Laws set boundaries on human behaviour. Every society enact laws that reflect natural law and the moral preferences of citizens. There are certain human behaviour and relationships society deem to be immoral and thus frown upon or subsequently makes illegal.
Those who oppose the homosexual act do so for a reason: the anus is not made out for sex and that the vagina is the only organ solely made for sex and procreation. Therefore, any other sexual preference, apart from a man and a woman, is a disorder,and an uncontrolled immoral behaviour. To them homosexuality is a condition that should be treated as criminal deviation and not allowed in the society.
These people insist that penetrative anal sex is not hygienic and has a higher risk of spreading sexually transmitted diseases (STIs) than many other types of sexual activity, which put the larger community at higher risks. This is because the lining of the anus is thin and can be easily damaged, which makes it more vulnerable to infection.
Then there is the pain, bleeding, and the inability of practitioners to control the passage of toilets through the anus. “Faeces” they say, “in your pants is not a nice thing to talk about.”
In the past, and even presently, people correlate homosexuality and paedophilia with various neurologicalabnormalities and mental disorder.
Those who are advocating for the legalisation and acceptance of the homosexual lifestyle debunks all these and insists that homosexuality is a natural and normal sexual behaviour, indeed, a natural and normal deviation in the human condition, which is determined before birth. What this group of people are saying is that homosexuality is inborn and a natural activity, ingrained in the DNA.
As a movement, homosexuals and their allies say, they simply seek to tear down bigotry and prejudice, and encourage sexual diversity in all its forms. What they hide from the debate is the activities of the puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and/or amputation surgery of breasts or genitalia and the painful ‘sex reassignment’ procedures Trans genders go through in order to finish the transformation. Then, there is the fact that if you do not bend to their will, they might hurt you.
The Ghana Catholic Bishops Conference is leading the campaign against the legalisation of homosexuality in Ghana. On their side, in the ring, is Foh Amoaning’s National Coalition for Proper Sexual Rights and Human Values, and other individuals who share the belief that homosexuality is satanic and evil.
Joining the debate in Ghana, using ideological and harmful misrepresentations, and supporting those who support the legalisation of the practice, is Amnesty International and the representatives of former colonial powers here in Ghana, which has linked acceptance to the disbursement of economic aid to skew the debate.
In fact, the Australian Ambassador to Ghana, the European Union in Ghana and other diplomats claim that opposition to the legalisation of homosexuality is simple sexual intolerance. They insist that homophobia, transphobia, biphobia, heterosexist and genderstraight privilege are social justice issues, and have gone ahead openly and officially to give money and other logistics to local supporters of LGBTQI, in clear confrontation with Ghana’s moral values and culture.
Most of us do not care about what individuals do behind their closed doors. We may not like their lifestyle. It is their right to do what they do in their bedrooms, consensually, at night or during daytime behind closed doors. Homosexuals, indeed, have every right to basic human dignity, compassion and respect.
However, the majority have the right to say no to the new culture. The majority should care when a tiny minority, with foreign blood money, and acquired tastes, try to push religion, especially, Christianity, out of mainstream Ghanaian culture. The majority should care when a tiny minority attempt to urge the state to alter the laws to redefine the meaning of ‘man’ and ‘woman’ and the concept of marriage as a union between a biological man and a biological woman, without debate?
A QUESTION FOR GHANAIANS
Gender is a biological reality. Therefore, setting up boundaries to refuse the re-construction of gender and judge certain behaviours as ‘immoral,’ is nowhere close to bigotry or prejudice. Every society needs law and order and this should be a duty for all citizens – to protect the culture and identity of the people.
The West’s ultimatum is arrogant and an athouritarian tactic: fall in line or starve to death. The neo-colonial master is telling Africa your morals do not matter. This is colonialism all over again. This is war. A war to reject God, for our souls, our values, tradition and sovereignty.
It is the responsibility as freethinking, self-determining majority to reject alien culture, pushed by a minority, and insist on the right to believe in God, and pursue happiness without bowing to false gods. Especially when it might come at their expense.
In fact, the majority have the right to disagree against the legalisation of homosexuality. Their rights to oppose the legalisation, however, do not trump the rights of homosexuals to advocate for legalisation of ‘insane’ behaviour. No one’s rights supersedes the others. The way it works therefore is that it is mutually beneficial for everyone involved to behave and debate in mutual respect.
Indeed, what the state should care about is the overreaction and the sort of irrational behaviour emerging from overzealous and arrogantadvocates of homosexuality to muzzle their opponents, by all means possible, in recent times. Their illogical behaviour to abuse and classify every form of criticism and dissent as a hostile and criminal act reeks of intolerance also.
In a liberal,democratic and diverse society, people have the right to hold different beliefs, even the false belief that John can be Jane. People also have the right to believe that He created them man and woman. That right is what the majority must protect above all else.
By Kwadwo Afari
The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect The Chronicle’s stance.
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