As the anti-homosexual brigade in Ghana has brought up the issue of homosexuality again, there is much discussion. Read Let Them Be Gay and Let Them Be Gay: A Facebook Conversation by Ato Dadzie to get an idea of what’s going on. I do not want to engage with the question of whether homosexuality is right or wrong but simply to lay out the arguments which appear to be emotional as opposed to rational.
1. Animals don’t do it
This is my favourite argument. It attempts to define what is natural by using animals as an example. Animals are taken to define nature and, ipso facto, the natural. They argue that animals don’t do it, it’s therefore not natural and therefore human beings shouldn’t do do it.
These zoological experts could have done a simple internet search to discover examples of homosexual behaviour in over 1,500 species. Alternatively, they could come round my yard and watch the two male dogs in my house attempting a bit of bum fun! So as animals do it, does that now mean it is natural and it’s OK for humans? When this reality is pointed out they then switch their argument to…
2. We are not animals
After placing us within nature, the “zoologists” now want to remove us from it. They switch to saying that we are better than animals and therefore should not participate in homosexual behaviour which they now define as animalistic. Natural no longer means right!
3. If we legalise homosexual acts then next we legalise [insert crime of choice]
If we legalise homosexuality why shouldn’t we legalise serial killers, rape, and theft? The proponents of this argument sadly seem unable to distinguish between consensual love between two people and violent crime which involves no consent from the victim.
4. The slippery slope argument
If we legalise homosexuality the whole world may become gay and the human species will end! What if the whole world had the calling to become a celibate priest or nun? Let’s ban them too! Do I really need to state that some homosexual people, particularly lesbians, give birth? This argument is also based on the idea that sexuality is fixed and 100%. The famous Kinsey report suggested otherwise.
Or the next thing is they will start teaching kids in school how to become homosexual and then pass laws making it illegal to be straight! The idea that “homosexualists” or “gayists” (as these people love to describe them) are going to legislate against sexuality is only a reflection of what they believe they can do. They believe that laws can stop homosexual behaviour. An attempt which has failed as would attempts to impose homosexuality!
5. It’s a health threat
They claim that only homosexuals spread disease yet don’t think it’s that much of problem to fund health education amongst men who have sex with men! They give unsubstantiated statements such as “gay men have to wear pampers due to their deformed anuses” (headline from a “Christian” newspaper in Ghana). It also ignores the comparative safety of lesbian sex. It also ignores the fact that men and women pass diseases onto each other including HIV when they have unprotected sex.
6. The Anus wasn’t meant to be used that way
So lesbianism is OK then? They should think again before they ask their wives for a blow job. Do they know God’s purpose for the tongue?
7. The bible says…
We have many bible experts in Ghana yet they have never read the bible in Hebrew or Greek. Unaware of the arguments currently debated in the Church they cannot see anything other than words. They still quote the story of Sodom and Gomorrah as if it was a warning against homosexual behaviour because they have not read it or thought about it for themselves.
8. It’s not our culture
This is at root an argument that claims “nasty things” come from the “Whites”. African culture (whatever that is) is seen to be pure, therefore homosexuality and I suppose adultery and child abuse must have been taught to Ghanaians (who are clearly helpless) from outsiders. It lumps all white people and all African people into two homogeneous groupings and presumes they all have the same values – the bad ones of the Whites and the good ones of the Africans.
It also assumes that homosexuality is a culture as opposed to an activity that takes place within all cultures. People are very quick to condemn their own culture when it suits them, such as the ‘evil’ of their traditional religion or some practises that are seen to be abusive to women or children, yet, on this issue, pretend they must be slaves to cultural traditions which must never change.
Conclusion
Ironically the loudest voices on homosexuality come from those opposed to it. They claim “gayists” are lobbying for special rights yet where are the voices of homosexuals in Ghana? They want us to believe they are secretly calling for special rights and converting more people to their “cause” resulting in the breakdown of society.
The truth is that the breakdown in traditional culture has created a space where individuals can choose their own path in life and where people have become less concerned with the private details of other peoples’ lives.
Ghana’s future depends on rational thinking and the challenging of mob mentality. Tradition is important but when you blindly follow it you are little more than a slave. The discussion around homosexuality lays out the dangers before us and calls for level-headed approaches.
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Great points. Yes. Emotional responses leave no room for reason for some people on this topic and leave them looking desperately irrational, and intelllectually anachronistic. The world will change without them & there is nothing that they can do about it. Laws & killing people won’t achieve their African utopia.
Thanks – and yes I do believe change will happen and some will be left screaming behind.
It is pathetic and indeed quite ridiculous that people still fail to see how very tired and very ugly their bigoted and self-righteous attitudes have become. And how those attitudes have yielded only negative results that severely do damage to both parties. I find it very hard to understand why people want to remain obstinately homophobic in spite of all the glaring evidence that gay people are just like everyone else. Queer as folk! Not subhumans. Homosexuality does not destroy families. It is homophobia that does.
Graham this is an excellent post! Very well written.
Thanks Nana
Balanced and wise as usual! I totally agree with your conclusion. See my post on the same topic here: http://kajsaha.com/2011/06/debating-homosexuality-in-ghana/
Good post from you too!
Well written post. I find that debating homosexuality/gayism(lol) in Ghana is a completely futile exercise. Everyone has an entrenched position (backed-up by many of your points) and all refuse to see any other perspective. I’m often fascinated that people have alot of opinons on (the) gays but have never actually met or talked to a gay person in their life. Ghanaian society would prefer that gay men are closeted, get married to women and cheat on their wives with other men rather than have stable relationships of their own choice.
As for the argument that lesbians are okay, that probably reflects the extent to which some men of homophobic inclination feel threatened in some way by gay men…
BTW, I have never understood the argument that if homosexuality is legalized somehow more people will be drawn towards “trying it out”. If you are not attracted to people of your own sex why on earth would you want to try it out?!! I currently live in the Netherlands and I pass coffee shops selling legal marijuana every day…I can state categorically that I would NEVER visit a coffee shop to puff on a joint because it is legal. I have zero inclination. interest or curiosity about trying marijuana.
You make some interesting points. When I first came to Ghana, I believed that rational debate on this issue was not possible and did not discuss it. But things seem to be changing and rational voices are making themselves heard – even on TV chat shows. I actually believe many Ghanaians are quite tolerant when things are kept discrete.
Wow Graham! I concur with all your points. This is the most well thought out piece I’ve ever read on the subject. Kudos to you for freeing your mind.
With the it’s not our culture argument, I keep telling my african friends to go look through history. In many part of Africa, some puberty rights involved acts that an only be described as homosexual. We accuse the white man of bringing homosexuality to us, when we were practicing forms of it for years. Before the Colonial Masters brought us the bible, what on earth were we using as our moral code? I believe in God and Jesus, and I may not understand why someone would want to sleep with a person of the same sex, but I also believe that it’s not our place to judge who is in the right or wrong, or to determine who gets to live or not.
God Bless Ghana and save us from bigot extremists
Thanks Daixy and also for the wider cultural perspective which many of the “it’s not our culture” brigade seem uninformed about.
Sometimes people outside the country that want ghanaians to embrace homosexuality forget the fact that we lived and grew up in two absolutely different worlds. We all have different beliefs, and norms that we accept. These, I must admit, bind us emotionally, and sometimes make us loose our sense of reasoning. I try not to judge people, or even talk about their private lives but I fall short when it comes to homosexuality.
You think Sodom and Gomorrah was not a warning against it? Have you read it yourself?I am no saint, and I would try not to judge. I even read somewhere that Christians should stop preaching about homosexuality because in hell there will be a lot of heterosexuals burning too. SO WHAT? Does that mean I forget about all my Sunday school teachings, and preach that same sex relationships is cool? Yes, some religious elders reportedly are homosexuals. SO WHAT? The whole congregation should turn around and embrace it? Because apparently it would be hypocritical it they don’t right? Folly even to contemplate. And yes it’s not our culture, definitely not. I was not surprised when i read about how lots of people in the rural areas didn’t even believe homosexuality existed. But yes, it would always be like this; outside people trying to tell us what to do, telling us how to think rationally, trying to make us change our perspectives about our beliefs, trying to make us legalize same sex marriage. so what next after this? We will have to accept gender transition too right? and believe it wasn’t ‘taught to us?’. This is not your country (I’m really sorry am sounding racist) and if you think all these reasons are really dumb, maybe…maybe it would be nice to come up with 8 reasons why Ghanaian s should embrace homosexuality. This is a good piece, but I hope you know this is one sensitive discussion.
Ironically, I have a little doubt if laws can solve this problem. I don’t hate gays, hate is too strong. I believe God has a purpose for everyone on this earth. I know gays say they were born that way but I find it hard to believe, I think it’s their choice (I stand to be corrected) . I think ‘God’s word doesn’t preach homosexuality, so why would he create someone like that into this world?’. I condemn the maltreating of gay people, that is not right. but what we are doing now is creating an environment that is going to change our religious beliefs and change our lives to something we are not. I’m not surprised you didn’t want to touch on whether homosexuality is right or wrong. That would have been interesting, based on the fact that we both believe in different things (religiously).
@ serwaa, I totally agree with you. I live in canada now, and I have no curiosity to try out anything that I, personally feel is not good for me. Maybe it’s because we are all grown up and can choose what is good for us. What about the young ones, the teenagers who are not matured enough (no disrespect), and will need guidance in an issue like this? But yes I know that will bring up another argument about what is age is considered matured, and that teenagers should have the right to choose whichever sex they want.
In my eyes homosexuality it’s a wrong thing to do, whether gay or lesbianism. If it’s fancy and cool for you, and you think it’s rational so be it. I guess you are entitled to your opinion but I cant embrace it, and encourage people around me to do it-that’s the prosaic truth. I guess we will never agree on this.
PS: Kajsa, I read your post first before i stumbled upon this one.
Thanks for your honest comments. I think you got the point of my post which is to simply mention that the arguments many people are using against this issue are illogical. There may well be good arguments against homosexuality but they are not coming from the current debate within Ghana.
Without wanting to get too much into theology, if Sodom and Gomorrah was really about homosexuality why females were offered to the men who we are told we supposed to be gay? Surely you would have offered your sons. There’s enough written about what this story truly represents that I don’t need to go into it here.
My plea is that we use our brains and think a bit harder.
Not so fast compadre! Those societies that this writer’s beliefs are inspired by are failed societies. I put it to you, that the writer himself has migrated from the supposed heaven to live in squalid and backwards Africa. Why were the waves of wealth and well-being just too overpowering for you, or what?
The West with its ostentatious development and advancement belies deeply putrid and decaying social norms and values. I live here and have lived all over it’s morally decrepit lands for long enough to come to realize that appearances are woefully deceptive when it comes to America and her cronies.
In Ghana, community thrives even as ‘government’ face-plants. Interesting isn’t it? Now consider, who really defined the boundaries that divide African into ‘nations’?
And now, we’re supposed to swallow another Western manufactured social poison in the form of homosexuality hook, line and sinker? I think not! We will not allow you to drag us into your gold-lined gutter!
Don’t fall for the lies being peddled here and elsewhere about the tolerance of and validity of homosexuality as a normal state of being. It is an abhorrence and all the noise being made about it is in actuality just a ruse – it’s all a distraction from the truth that what these people need above all else is compassion and most of all help.
The point of my post, is that the current debate is little more than hysteria and a plea to bring some rationality into this issue. The hysteria is no accident. It is designed to stop debate. The tvoices for decriminalisation appear to me to be coming from Ghanaians not outsiders. The attempt to portray it as an outside issue smacks of xenophobia.
We can all caricature another’s culture to make political points. As this post points out instances of adultery, sexual abuse and domestic abuse are more widespread than homosexuality. So you are right when you say all the noise is a distraction. It’s just that the biggest noise is coming from those that oppose it in an attempt to distract from the real issues, reinforce a religious, conservative agenda and as a response to the fear of the collapse of traditional culture.
Bottom line – Ghana signed certain international treaties in order to become a member of the international community. Sorry but responsibilities go alongside that.
Let me make it clear, I left the UK because a change of perspective led me to reject the value system of that culture. Ironically, a set of values that many Ghanaians seem to want to adopt – and I’m not referring to homosexuality. A quick example – I mean an obsession with superficiality, material possessions, a puritanical work ethic and a belief that ‘development’ is a normal way of progressing and not a political agenda.
What?? Don’t even attempt to feign naivete! The calls are being initiated by Ghanaians indeed. What rubbish! Do you live in Ghana proper? How many Ghanaians have you met who would speak in favour of homosexuality? Since ours is supposed to be a ‘democracy’, should the majority not rule. I should not have to elaborate upon how much influence the West has on Africa and everyone being very much aware of the ‘grand strides’ America has been making in this area in recent months – case closed. It’s sickening.
If you would label a concerned citizen xenophobic becaue they refuse to swim about in the filth of another race, then so be it. May your own words not choke you when the truth outs.
By your admission, you left your country because of all the serious lapses in culture that you observed. Then why pray, are you advocating to contaminate ours to the same end? Have you considered that the reason why it was there for you to come to is because Ghanaians have held on, against all odds, to essential portions of our culture that continue to buttress and sustain perpetuity. Please leave Ghana alone for our children to also thrive in some.
As for the international treaties you mentioned because you decided to leave the statement unqualified, I shall not bother to tackle the perposterousness of the implication that Ghanaians should accept degenerative morality because it is stipulated in some intl treaty. Ahhhh! When you clarify you point and/or identify such a treaty, we shall cross the bridge to hash it out.
Again, do not be fooled people. Do not tolerate it just because it comes beautifully wrapped in fanciful words and upon foreign winds. Set them straight. It is wrong and we shall have none of it!
It’s interesting the way you phrase things. “How many Ghanaians would speak in favour of homosexuality”. Actually, if you phrase the question differently you get a different answer. Almost all Ghanaians I know are in favour of decriminalisation. They may not “agree” with homosexuality but they don’t see its any of their business what consenting adults do in private. Some of the supportive comments above are written by Ghanaians living in Ghana. Apart from the violent and hateful comments we read from people on the internet, it is my experience that most Ghanaians are actually quite tolerant and decent.
I’m suggesting xenophobia because of your comments about other cultures. You seem to believe in African purity as opposed to the nasty, evil culture of the whites. It’s a caricature of the situation. The serious lapses in culture that you want to refer to are the ones I mentioned in my last reply to you although I can’t stop you interpreting this in the way you want.
LOL Anon, chill man! I understand your frustration.
There is no legal recognition of same-sex couples under Ghanaian law. Which part don’t you get man? I know you get it but you want to turn things around and make us see things your way right? And you label us xenophobic? seriously? I won’t even talk about the influence the west has on Africa. do you think Africa is ever going to have any influence on the west? No, never. But as usual the white man would always want to feel superior!
I gaped when i read you talk about how the discrimination was coming from Ghanaian s. seriously?? The ‘supposed’ gay community are not even up to 1% of the country’s population. Which part of Ghana? and even if it did, you don’t think it’s because of outsiders always trying to impose on us? oh and yes! we are really scared for the collapse of our traditional culture. I guess you don’t have one do you? Oh and you are not religious I presume? You see, that’s what will make, as someone said on this blog, this argument futile because we are never going to see things in the same way. I have foreign friends who don’t believe in God, don’t even believe he exists. I understand, I respect their views. We are cool with each other, they understand when i want to pray. They don’t believe in it but they try to understand. It’s no use trying to make them believe there’s a God somewhere. I tried, but they just don’t get it. They live by their own set rules and theories. I understand too, we are from two different worlds.
If you didn’t know, it is believed that homosexuality became known to Ghana when foreign tourists, international workers and even missionaries came to the country. They invited innocent boys to their houses, flushed them with gifts and money and promised to send them to the rich countries. This was one of the ways they used to have anal intercourse with the innocent boys. This continued and most of them became addicted to it. Just recently, a male teacher abused six of his male students. And you want us to embrace this taboo? This is just to counter those who claim that homosexuals are innocent and harmless people? Those that ask the dumb question ‘how does someone being gay affect anyone?’ seriously?? They are not using their brains!
You probably have no traditions, and probably believe everyone has the right to do whatever he wants, or be whoever he wants to be…maybe in your country. Ghana is a democratic state that allows for freedom of expression but is careful not to link it with freedom of choice. The former is very much respected by all GHANAIAN s but the latter, which allows everyone to be what he is, is frowned upon by all.
As I said, in my eyes homosexuality it’s a wrong thing to do. If it’s fancy and cool for you, and you think it’s rational so be it. My Ghanaian people will never embrace it, heavens forbid. Go preach it in your country. I don’t blame you. it’s not your fault, you didn’t do anything. I guess Ghana, a nation after God’s own heart, is so peaceful, and its people are so welcoming and full of love that now foreigners want to take advantage. Go to Kenya, or even Zimbabwe and try telling Mugabe to legalize homosexuality. It’s not your fault!!
Thank you for understanding my brother. This guy Graham is really stepping on my last nerve. But I will try my best to chill.
Graham, if most Ghanaians are tolerant and decent as you say then leave us the way you came to meet us, please, or by all means feel free to retrace your steps. A la that saying, “when in rome…”, if you can’t, I beg you to do the needful.
In fact, why not go back and campaign to make your own people see the error in “obsession with superficiality, material possessions, a puritanical work ethic and a belief that ‘development’ is a normal way of progressing and not a political agenda” instead of trying to infiltrate Ghanaians with filthy practices.
As for these your words, “You seem to believe in African purity as opposed to the nasty, evil culture of the whites”, they are yours and yours alone.
I believe in reasonable discourse but your post above is blatantly pushing an agenda which in the end is neither your responsibility nor your right. Ghanaians have not elected you any kind of mouth-piece. And they are not wailing in the streets (as they are here in the West) about homosexuality. Therefore stop fanning flames which you have no business doing, sit down, drink some Star with groundnuts and enjoy some soothing Kojo Antwi. Haba!
This is a simple basic human issue. Has nothing to do with who is corrupting who. Don’t people have the right to be gay? Isn’t that a human right?
Ofcourse people have all sorts of rights. In the same way corporations have the right to lie and steal. But does it mean that their greed should not be reigned in? Probably not the most apt analogy. The point is that this is a moral issue. Is homosexuality a human right, that’s up for debate. I myself think it does quite fit into that description.
Just as much a everyone has a right to their sexuality, everyone else has a right to an opinion about it (provided they choose to advertise these tendencies) as well as the right to express that opinion.
Wow! What a fight….despite my stark disagreement with the central spine of Anon’s argument, I must give this round to him based on sheer intellectual maneuver. However, Anon, it would be remiss of me not to mention that homosexuality is by and large, globally homogeneous and it’s origin is irrelevant now as it has become a phenomenon which unfortunately won’t dissipate despite our best efforts, be it anti-decriminalization campaigns or the incitement of violence against homosexuals. What is evident is that it hardly affects people who are not involved with it except when they decide that consenting adults (note: not themselves) shouldn’t have the right to do it. In the same way you may accuse the whites of infiltrating Ghana with filthy practices, I think your points of view have the effect of infiltrating and castrating people’s freedom to choose lifestyles most desirable to them (irrespective of origin). There is a universally accepted principle that once two consenting adults agree to do something that doesn’t forcibly affect a third party against his/her will then the state/church/moral authorities, et al, should have no place to intervene in such matters. Corrupt corporations are the business of the public as their actions have direct and indirect impact on people and so must be reigned in as you rightly stated. On the contrary, we cannot seek to curtail the interactions of ordinarily law abiding citizens because of our selfish religious fanaticism which is perhaps based on a flawed system of establishment in the first place. Additionally, these practices are outlawed largely by religious standards which are used to make laws, but what about people who don’t subscribe to these religious beliefs? Our human nature tends to be emotional and correspondingly irrational and I think when we selfishly try to make everyone do what we would do, we set ourselves up to recreate the same kind of problem we’re trying to fix. My homosexuality should only be your problem if I’m forcing you to be a victim of my romantic passion, against your will. Otherwise, freedom of choice is the ideal standard!….IN MY OPINION…
Graham, Is there any sexual behavior that you would define as immoral? If yes, what do you base your judgement on? For example, if a ten year old was in love with a 20 year old, is that a proper foundation for the two to have sex? I ask this because your argument seems to be love and consensual acts are the moral authority. Your arguments seem to say that any sexual act is moral if the two engaging in the act thinks it’s moral.
On another note, if we ourselves decide what is right in our own eyes, how can we condemn the drug dealer who sells cocaine to someone who consensually buys it? How about the prosititute who “consensually” has sex with another person. Do you think all of this is wrong? Your argument for homosexuality is based on the same faulty foundation. What’s even more disturbing is that you are trying to make the Ghanaian people look backward and stupid because they think it is utterly disgusting that a man would have sex with another man. I think it’s great that Ghanains aren’t bowing to your homosexual agenda and taking a stand for what is right. I am an American and so ashamed of the American homosexual agenda whose goal is to shame anyone who believes God’s purpose for sex is between a man and woman in the context of marriage.
I will end with my first question. Do you believe there is any sexual behavior that you consider immoral and how did you come to the conclusion that it is immoral?
I’m sorry if you feel I’m ridiculing people who oppose homosexuality. That was not my intention but a call for intellectual rigour. I say this because as I outline below, I think people have not thought through their arguments and are prepared to change them willy-nilly. I have not made any argument in favour of homosexuality in spite of your claim that I use consent as a moral barometer.
As to your assertion that I’m trying to “force” a “homosexual agenda” onto Ghanaians, I have not advocated any “agenda”. My post is my response to the debate that has been conducted in the Ghanaian media with Ghanaian voices on both sides of this debate. If you’d like to know the intellectual level of part of that debate, have a look at ghanaweb, particularly in the comment sections.
The debate around homosexuality is indicative of many debates, particularly political, in Ghana where it seems to be more about point scoring and using insults. Reasoned arguments, supporting evidence and facts are often lacking.
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and Graham you still didn’t answer the dude’s question..’is there any sexual behaviour that you will define as immoral??’
The question is somewhat absurd and is pushing an ideological agenda. It’s based on his assumption that I’m advocating something and that human rights equal a lack of morality. He focuses on the issue of consent which I don’t believe I do. His real agenda is that if we don’t accept his Christian morality based on his interpretation of the bible, morality has no foundation. There are many books which deal with this issue as well as the simple example of people’s lives. The point of this post is to outline faulty thinking in the arguments. I might ask which of the arguments my readers think are valid and why.
My dear sister nd brother pls let stop this gay nd lesbian things we do,the bible or the quran talks against it…..the gate of heaven is waiting for us.A WORD TO A WISE IS ENOUGH.
I wonder how you stop someone loving another person?
Is polygamy legal in Europe and America? we are not stupid. the people of Ghana ( Christians, moslems and traditionalists) will stand united against any form of homosexuality. HOMOSEXUALITY IS A DISEASE
It’s a shame you didn’t feel able to engage with any of the issues I’ve raised.
Your comment makes two false assumptions. One, that you speak for all Ghanaians. And secondly, you attempt to misrepresent this as a conflict between Europe/USA versus Ghana. If you really live in Ghana you know the Ghanaian voices that are calling for homosexuals to be respected, for the law to be reviewed and who speak out against voices like yours. The issue started in Ghana as a response to what was happing in Ghana. If you feel so strongly that polygamy (illegal in Ghana) is an admirable Ghanaian value I suggest you go and promote it.
I am very much supprise about something Ghanaians do and it really piss me of. At times I wonder why someone will have sex with his or her daughter or son and it is considered as a criminal offence, that person will be prosecuted and sent prison. What is more criminal than somebody having sex with the same sex partner? I think instead of promoting homosexuality and lesbianism, then it will be better to rather promote incest since involves sexuality between two opposite sex. Though both practices are frown upon society, homosexual is considered a sin against the Almighty and humanity as a whole. As the sayihg goes, even among two bad things one is more bad than the other.
Hmmmm. Well you are not telling me what you think of my list of dumb arguments but want to add a new one of your own! Good luck with promoting incest! lol
Leviticus 18:22. Maybe you should read that and embrace the fact that Ghanaians frown on what we believe is morally incorrect which mostly is consistent with the teachings of the bible or the Koran though in our closets we may be practising it. You call it irrational and hypocritical but I know it as sin. Left to us we would not sin because we do not want to. But humans as we are we still do and that is that. Mr Graham, you are white and you deal things the scientific way which includes logic or rationalism and sometimes may be devoid of all morality. But we are Ghanaians and we believe morality drives our society. Our spirit wants us not to sin but our flesh does. This is our debate and decision to make. So far I have not heard of the order to kill gays. That should tell you that we co-exist with them. We love them but we hate the act. As for Africans having a culture, your questioning that is somewhat insulting to me. We do have a way of life and have come powerless where we have followed standards of development set by our colonials which subjects us to resort to aid from them and makes it look like we are helpless. We do not want homosexuality legalized and that is that. I don’t see ypur problem with that.
Firstly, this post is not calling for the legalisation of homosexuality but is pointing out the poverty of the arguments against it.
All cultures are driven by many different factors including Ghanaian culture.
You are welcome to hold your religious views but they should not be imposed on them that do not hold them.
Violence has been enacted on people suspected of same-sex desire recently due to the importation of Evangelical Christianity and Islam but I agree that Ghanaian society traditionally ‘managed’ the issue and co-existed with those that were different.
The law against anal sex was brought by colonialism – it is not Ghanaian.
Many Ghanaians have changed their opinions on this matter and the most important thing is to have rational, calm debate and stop the language of violence, hatred and irrationality often couched within a Judeo-Christian framework.
On the question of your offence over your misunderstanding of the question of culture – there is no such thing as African culture but there is Nigerian culture, Ghanaian culture and so on. Africa is not a homogeneous whole as you know. In the same way there is no such thing as Western or European culture.