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Leave Oye Lithur alone - Amnesty International

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  • KD 11 years ago

    PLUS BOTTOM WIERDING PREZ., EI GHANA PAA NIE?

  • Kwame 11 years ago

    Amnesty International is and Imperialist tool it is always against the right of people to self determination and independence. Amnesty International does not respect the right of people to their sovereign right, that is to ch ...
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  • Jill 11 years ago

    Why's homosexuality now being shoved in everybody's faces? If you choose to be gay, that's your freaking business, but please, stop trying to get everyone to accept your lifestyle & stop the intimidation & bullying tactics wh ...
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  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 11 years ago

    Even dogs and goats don't do that. We are copying blindly from some Western European countries. What is the main purpose of marriage in any society? PROCREATION. How then do we accept gayism. Can someone even support polygamy ...
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  • ZAAZA 11 years ago

    if you think polygamy is good, fight for its acceptance. leave gays to fight for their rights. At the end of the day we should look at issues on their own merit and not always connect it with others. I do not like the situat ...
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  • TerriblY Spe cifiC 11 years ago

    HOMOSEXUALITY/GAYISM IS AGAINST OUR CULTURE. OYE LITHUR MUST NOT ADULTERATE OUR CULTURE. GIVE HER A WOMEN'S AFFAIRS MINISTRY TO RUN. AMNESTY MUST LEAVE OUR CULTURE AS IT IS.

  • ATSU, HO 11 years ago

    THOSE WHO WILL BE GAY WILL ALWAYS BE SOMBODY SHOULD BE BOLD ENOUGH TO CLEAR HER STAND. BY LAW BEING A GAY ACTIVIST LIKE OYE WILL NOT STOP HER FROM BEING A MINISTER

  • MR Mister 11 years ago

    NDC JOB CREATION

    Wee Market Opens In Ho







    Date: 15-Jan-2013

    A 24-hour wee market has started full-time operation at Ho, the Volta Regional Capital.

    The market, which has attracted all kinds of drug dea ...
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  • ///// 11 years ago

    Shut up zaaza!

  • Bishop 11 years ago

    This maggots wanted to spread evil around the world in the name of democrazy. They need to understand that ppl all over the world have their unique culture and traditions where no one could impose their own version on them.
    ...
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  • Boateng 11 years ago

    My friend, remember what Jesus prophesied? As it was in the days of Noah, as it was in Sodom and Ghomorah so shall the coming of the Son of Man be.

    The Sodomites forcibly tried to get into Lot's house to sodomize even the ...
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  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 11 years ago

    Even put Sodom aside. It defies commonsense. Did God create Adam and Eve or Adam and Steve? Even in the so called Western World, the majority of the people frown at homosexuality. Homosexuals are attacked and bullied at workp ...
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  • CORNEY 11 years ago

    This Amesu guy should get lost with his nonsense and his useless organization that knows of abuse of human rights in Africa and third world only but not in other parts of thew world where he gets his money.

    Why he has to g ...
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  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 11 years ago

    The only important Right that gay should have in Ghana is Right to life. Nobody should deny them of that but their sexual preferences should not be acceptable or tolerated. That is incompatible with our norms and culture. Oye ...
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  • KOKONSA 11 years ago

    What Norms What Culture??? Have you got a culture??? When you throw away your 'religion" for a foreign one and preach about culture you just sound stupid. take note that the unexamined life is not worth living. Examine crit ...
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  • KATH 11 years ago

    Where there is a hole there can be love. It's all about love. Love your neighbor as you love yourself. The world is changing and Ghana will also change.
    First it was democracy, Human rights and now Pussy rights

  • Nyankonton 11 years ago

    The West have destroyed their society and want to take us with them; and you'll find people like this woman who will go along with them.

    The appointment is very dangerous and must be challenged, given that Dr Atuguba is al ...
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  • Yaa Nkosuo 11 years ago

    Perhaps Naa Oye Lithur must remember WHO IS GOING BE PAYING HER SALARY and huge emoluments, should she pass her Vetting.

    Not that Gay issues and Human Rights aren't important but considering that only a few days ago we re ...
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  • Owie 11 years ago

    This woman is bound to bring abomination on this nation. She believes gayism should be promoted. Her nomination is the work of a Gay promotion lobby group. Ghanaians must stand up & protest against her appointment.

  • Pablo 11 years ago

    It's important we all understand our society is under attack by homosexuals and they are using agents at the Amnesty Int and people like Nana Oye Lithur to fulfill their agenda. they have the money and knows all the arm twist ...
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  • Fo Dela 11 years ago

    those clergy should think about the homosexual bishops and leave the woman alone.

  • KOO-SWISS 11 years ago

    THOSE CLERGIES YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT ARE NOT BEEN PAID BY THE GHANAIAN TAX PAYER so it is only the church members who can protest against that.
    Oyi lithur is been appointed to be paid with tax payers money so every ghanain w ...
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  • Ama 11 years ago

    Leave the innocent woman alone... the church is full of homosexuals, let God judge each and everyone of us, we are not God!

  • Laribanga - home of the Ansaaris 11 years ago

    RECRUITMENT AND ENROLLMENT , NO SHE CAN BE A MINISTER FOR THAT MINISTRY

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 11 years ago

    The position of the church does not support homosexuality. There can be some church people who engage in such acts secretly. This does not mean the church supports that. I also know that the Mosque is also against that. In th ...
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  • Ama 11 years ago

    We can't all be the same... it's a taboo and the bibel condems but it's FULL in the church even prists and pastors are hiding and practicing it. Its really.

  • Boateng 11 years ago

    Ama, I believe in human rights and no homosexual should be maimed because they choose that lifestyle but remember the Clergy have a work to do and theirs is to preach the word of God. Their protest is still preaching, they ...
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  • Ama 11 years ago

    Boateng, as much as i will agree with they are doing their job by preaching on that. But if we take cathelic church for instance, in europe they are full of homosexuals, boys bording schools for that matter! some of these hom ...
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  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 11 years ago

    When boys do things feminine, it does not make them gay. It is their sexual orientation that comes into play.
    Nobody is disputing the fact that there are gays in the Church, even among the clergy. This does not mean it must ...
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  • Ama 11 years ago

    so what do you do? kill them?

  • Ama 11 years ago

    when boys do things femine..... it does makes them gay. i'm not talking about ghana boys going to fetch water or selling things like girls... boys puting on makeup like girls, surgical breast etc

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 11 years ago

    What will Amnesty International say if the appointment involved an open supporter of polygyny in the West? Attacks against Homosexuality in the case of Ghana is not only religious but also cultural. The West have adopted some ...
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  • princewilly@ymail.com 11 years ago

    The West has some double standards i cannot understand sometimes.You are not allowed to drink liquor until you are at the age of 21 but you can join the Army at the age of 18 and go and die.
    God created Adam and Eve not Adam ...
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  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 11 years ago

    And in GA, one cannot have an open container in public and be drinking but one can have the open container in a brown paper or black polythene bag and be drinking. Is that not funny? Then also one cannot buy alcohol on sunday ...
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  • princewilly@ymail.com 11 years ago

    I like your analogy but remember that its the pole for the Hole not the Pole for the Pole and the Hole for the Hole.

  • Boateng 11 years ago

    Good Question. Hypocrites all over.

  • Frank 11 years ago

    Which amongst you would be proud if your sister is married to another woman or your brother is married to another man. please do not plunge this nation into doom. ask yourselves; where are all those who secularised societies ...
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  • Laribanga - home of the Ansaaris 11 years ago

    THERE'S NO HOME , HIDING PLACE IN GHANA FOR HOMOSEXUALITY AND ITS NUISANCE IN GHANA - GAYS CON LESBIANS

    ANNESTY INTERNATIONAL YOU ALL PRODUCTS FROM LOINS OF MEN AND YOUR MOTHERS CARRIED YOU FOR 9 MONTHS

    CARRY YOUR EV ...
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  • princewilly@ymail.com 11 years ago

    we dont want Nana Onye Arthur.

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 11 years ago

    Until she learns some common wisdom about our culture. She can be a point guard for gayism. Who cares? We just don't want her to hold any portfolio in any administration-NDC,NPP,N whatever. Even not in Kofi Wayo's party.

  • Pebbles Nusetor 11 years ago

    Amnesty International, you have no right dictating to us in our country. The argument being put accros in respect of Oye Lithur is CORRECT. Ghana is a religious country and we cannot be quite for the perpertrating of homose ...
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  • KOKONSA 11 years ago

    GHANA IS NOT A RELIGIOUS COUNTRY. GET AN EDUCATION AND STOP DELUDING YOURSELF.

  • Owie 11 years ago

    The Ghanaian culture abhors homosexuality. Oye Lithur promotes homosexuality. She cannot be rewarded with a ministerial position for her to promote this. Let all who love mother Ghana oppose her appointment.

  • GAY MAN 11 years ago

    YOU GET WHAT YOU VOTED FOR!!!!

  • KOO-SWISS 11 years ago

    nobody is taking the right of anybody here, who has been denied of his or her right to live in ghana?
    All that the clergy and the majority of ghanaians are saying is that it is immoral act, so we are advising our brothers wh ...
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  • Albert 11 years ago

    Some body wrote the West don't allow people to drink alcohol until they are 21,but they can join the army at 18,please I beg to differ.what he /she is saying is not true.In England people can drink alcohol and smoke when they ...
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  • suicide bomber 11 years ago

    If Mahama wants my vote in 2016 then he should drop that gay and lesbian supporter from that position that directly relate to the family and give her a new appointment in any other position. She could really be a bad influenc ...
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  • Albert 11 years ago

    I know Nana Oye Lithur very well,she is neither a lesbian nor support homosexuals.She spoke on that subject as a lawyer and a human right advocate.So me I see nothing wrong with her beign appointed as a minister.

  • .NAT 11 years ago

    then she must come clean on her stance on the anti Christ activities

  • MAMA 11 years ago

    LEAVE HER ALONE YOU PHARISEES PASTORS. THIEVES YOU DECEIVE THE GULLIBLE AND STEAL MONEY,GOD WILL PUNISH YOU.

  • KOKI 11 years ago

    Amnesty International should give us a break! Not at all surprising as the so called human rights include any filthy rotten life style worshiped as tin gods in many european and US states!

    They should fight for several inn ...
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  • Analyst 11 years ago

    The Bible is very clear that homosexuality is one of the many sins, which if practiced, can keep someone out of the kingdom of God.
    This is what 1st Book of Corinthians Chapter 6 versus 9 and 10 say: “Do you not know that ...
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  • Rash 11 years ago

    i dont blame oye cos she was probably a lesbian in her school days n may even be a lesbian still..2ndly i blame who nominated her in the 1st place..we used our thumb to bring him to power...n we will use out thumb 2 vote him ...
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  • CCTV 11 years ago

    Nana Oye Lithur, Please dont allow your profession drag you to hell. Allah dinounce gaysm or homosexuality and you know that. arm robbers, thives and all those who are into bad practice can say it is their right to engage int ...
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  • Kofiga 11 years ago

    She is ugly, that is why she is advocate for gay right. What can she do,nobody will fuck a woman who is more ugly than a MAN.

  • maa tech 11 years ago

    I feel so proud that I do not have my name on any church register as most of these religious faith will rather lead you to hell. What did Nana Oye do wrong? Defending people from being molested? Did Christ come for the righte ...
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  • Eko 11 years ago

    If she was a man no one would accuse her of being ugly. It is only for women they expect to see a lady's attractiveness on the resume. Double standards=narrow vision. She has a beautiful soul, some of these narrow-minded cler ...
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  • Joedusu@yahoo.com 11 years ago

    QUESTION FOR THE JOKERS LIKE OYE LITHUR WHO ARGUE FOR HOMOSEXUALITY ON THE BASIS THAT SOCIETY HAS NO RIGHT TO TELL AN ADULT MAN WHAT KIND OF SEX HE CAN HAVE:
    SO ON WHAT BASIS DID THE STATE CRIMINALIZE INCEST??? IS THAT ALSO ...
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  • MYROC 11 years ago

    VICTOR SMITH
    CHESTER ANI

  • GHANANI 11 years ago

    I hope Amnesty International will stop interfering in the internal affairs of Ghana.Oye Lithur is a threat to the moral purity of the ghanaian society.She does not deserve any government appointment which will give her the pl ...
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  • KOLOOKO, JAPAN 11 years ago

    Q MUST ATSND AGAINST OYE NOMINATION

  • Eko 11 years ago

    It takes a mean spirit to stand against Amnesty International; a charity founded by the kindest of Christians- the Quakers; one of the few denominations that truly understand the philosophy of Jesus Christ and have consistent ...
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  • KOLOOKO, JAPAN 11 years ago

    MAHAMA BEWARE OF OYE LITHUR

  • BAAMOA 11 years ago

    If Ghana has the gut to accept gays and lesbians as human beings and that their way of living should be accepted by all as their right then Ghana should Abolish All Churches. Why because Sodom and Gommorha was destoyed mainly ...
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  • Eko 11 years ago

    The crime of Sodom and Gomorrah was actually in pretending to welcome visitors to their towns as guests when actually they intended to ruin them. It was the evil of indiscriminate rape and violence that invited God's wrath.
    ...
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  • Baamoa 11 years ago

    Dear Eko, I am happy you have understood that Homosexuality and the lesbianismo was a RUIN and that is why God destroyed them.And that destruction SHOULD not come us,so we should Wipe away all those who will help God to bring ...
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  • princewilly@ymail.com 11 years ago

    God made the Pole for the Hole not the Pole for the Pole and the Hole for the Hole.
    What do you call three lesbians in a closet? A: A Licker cabinet

  • DOKORDOKOR 11 years ago

    AFTER PROF MILLS THIS PARTY HAS BECOME A COMIC PARTY.THIS WOMAN IS NOT GUD FOR OUR GHANA.

  • yk 11 years ago

    THE MONEY SEEKING PASTORS MUST LEAVE MODERN GHANA ALONE

  • yd 11 years ago

    Shut up amnesty international.what have you done to save human lives in Africa.evil organization.

  • Stephen Gyan, Kumasi 11 years ago

    I want to urge Nana Oye Lithur to ignore the so called concerned clergy.Nana, you are not under any obligation to state your stance. Ignore them. They can go hell and even burn the Atlantic ocean. Majority of Ghanaians and we ...
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  • Richard Boateng 11 years ago

    Mmmm; the gays are taking over now.

  • aba 11 years ago

    why should they call themselves concerned clergy association when they don't do what is required of them as men and women of God? They should allow her to take up her post. At the end of the day, the homosexuality they are ...
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