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Ghana must state her position on gay rights - Kofi Abotsi

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  • OMAHENE 12 years ago

    KOFI; HOW MANY TIMES DO YOU HAVE TO BE TOLD BY GOVT OFFICIALS THAT HOMO BEHAVIOR WOULD NEVER, I REPEAT NEVER BE ACCEPTED IN GHANA? HUH?

  • Akom 12 years ago

    Abotsi suspects MAHAMA TO BE BI-SEXUAL

  • son of GOD 12 years ago

    Akom pls, a respect is one of the key of salvation okay.Try and respect the leader of the LAND

  • POSITION Z.T. 12 years ago

    Why should we waste time on this?

    If you have some important thing to do and you find it difficult to do, you occupy yourself by any unnecessary thing. this is no argument.

    Instead of thinking of basic necessities, we w ...
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  • GH 12 years ago

    WHY THE WESTERN CONTRIES WANT GAY IN POOR COUNTRIES BUT NEVER ATEMPT TO TELL ARAB COUNTRIES? GOD WILL PUNISH EVERYONE WHO SUPPORT GAY, IM TOTALY DISAPOINTED IN MAHAMA

  • OZA 12 years ago

    You talk about human rights?? Why can't a man have the RIGHT to mary more than one woman in the West? Is that not allowed and accepted in Ghana or in Africa? Every nation has its own values depending on the culture. So the We ...
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  • IDRIS PACAS 12 years ago

    Homosexuals are social deviants just as mad persons and require protection be it legal or moral. They need to be isolated from society just as mad persons and divine intervention sought for their redemption. Instead of these ...
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  • ZoRRo 12 years ago

    Homosexuality is not acceptable in Ghana. If you want to be a homosexual, go to another country, period !

  • naked 12 years ago

    this is not secret white men were sleeping in cages and sleeping with animals,dark skin people men were sleeping with humans female, so if this white people are practicing gay in their country is not a news to me as a dark sk ...
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  • Isaac Amanor ,USA 12 years ago

    I will keep saying this,they are not humans please.In fact I respect a mad man as a human being who is sick and must be respected and listened to than a gay. WHAAAAAAT?SHIT RIGHT.

  • James Bond 12 years ago

    Funny how many guys in Ghana and on this forum would love to have sex with a woman or girl in their anus (because it is tighter), or wanna see two girls make out and/or have sex (because it is sexy and arousing) yet frown on ...
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  • Cardiffman 12 years ago

    Homosexuals and lesbians are human beings and do have the right to expect protection from unlawful persecutions from the BIGOTS in Ghana.Ghana cannot erode the movement of ideas which allows civilised nations to treat and res ...
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  • Kwabena, Toronto 12 years ago

    Gay/lesbian rights have contemporary become the biggest human rights issue in almost every corner of the world, and rightly so, Ghana is also confronted with such important subject.

    The big issue for the government is tha ...
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  • Mr Jaro 12 years ago

    Is anal sex between man and woman illegal as well?

  • Already 12 years ago

    I did no that Ghanains guys has also begun turning on two girls together. What a manipulated people. And yet they are against two men together. The European dobble moral has affected by people. Either you condemn all kind of ...
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  • HUMAN ACTIVIST 12 years ago

    YOU ARE ALL TURNING A BLIND EYE BECAUSE YOU ARE IN DENIAL STAGE. COME TO REALITY, HOMOSEXUALITY JUST LIKE ANY OTHER SIN IS HERE TO STAY. IT IS IN GHANA. FOUND IN SCHOOLS WHETHER MIXED OR SAME SEX SCHOOLS, IN CHURCHES AND OTHE ...
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  • GGLKA, GHANA 12 years ago

    THIS IS THE SOLUTION FROM US AND ALL AFRICA!:

    THIS IS A VERY SERIOUS WARNING TO LITHUR THE LESBIAN HOMOSEXUAL AND ALL EMBASSIES AND STAFF AND "TOURISTS" FROM THE DOG COUNTRIES OF DOGLAND (EUROPE):

    ______________________ ...
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  • James Bond 12 years ago

    A another idiot with very small balls.

  • OZA 12 years ago

    This is where the controversy begins: If our criminal laws saction "anal" sex. Then Lesbians could be excluded. So I agree with the Professor...the government should clarify if the act of homosexuality which includes both "ga ...
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  • KOFI - USA 12 years ago

    OMANHENE, IT IS NOT ABOUT THE HOMO BEHAVIOR THAT IS AT QUESTION. WHAT IS AT QUESTION IS THE RIGHTS OF INDIVIDUALS. WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT GAYS AND LESBIANS HAVE RIGHTS THAT NEED TO BE PROTECTED. WE PROTECT THE RIGHT OF P ...
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  • KOHEMS 12 years ago

    Ghana is not a nanny state which should always tell its citizens what to do and what not to do.The majority of ghanaians do not accept homosexual and lesbian lifestyles and that is it.They contravene our traditional and relig ...
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  • Kwaku 12 years ago

    You think a poor man can talk by heart,go and tell John Mahama to open his mouth and you'll see where he will get money to support his budget.The western world are patiently looking at us,they will hit us hard if we misbehave ...
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  • ASANTE holland 12 years ago

    CONSTITUTION WAS MADE BY HUMAN, BUT THE PUNISHMENT OF BEING HOMO IS THE WRATH OF GOD.WE DONT NEED SODOM &GOMORIA IN GHANA.

  • me 12 years ago

    What kind of right is she protecting? The right to sodomize or what? Who is abusing gays in Ghana? Rightly said, she is a f_cking gay b_tch.

  • william 12 years ago

    Is the government not clear enough on this?Is the law ambiguous? Rights of all including minorities protected by constitution. Anal sex prohibited by law!! What else do you want! To the best of my knowledge,if the problem is ...
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  • Already 12 years ago

    Remember that lesbianism is also a homosexual activity. You do not have to repeat the same word.

  • Boateng 12 years ago

    Talk about Human rights not gay rights. Gayism is against our values. Do theives have rights as human beings? Yes they do. Do we say theives have rights as theives? I do not think so.

    Gays do have rights as human ...
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  • GHANANI 12 years ago

    Those who support gay and lesbianism should relocate to live in Europe or America where even presidents and prime ministers support it.God will severely punish such leaders and hellfire awaits them when they die.Ghana will ne ...
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  • Nimdee2k 12 years ago

    Are you gay? Only people that hiding in the closet have your mindset. Are you afraid that people will find out that you're gay. Who without sin should cast the first stone.

  • KOO-SWISS 12 years ago

    GHANA IS HIGHLY RELIGIOUS COUNTRY; BE CHRISTIAN OR MUSLIM NOT FORGETING OUR TRADITIONS WHICH DESCRIBE GAYISM AS TABOOOOOOOOOOOOOO;
    so it is crystal clear and understandable at all corners of ghana that gayism is tabooo and p ...
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  • Kk3 12 years ago

    It seems like no one listened to this lady. I did and nowhere did she condone homosexuality. She sounded the brightest in the room and affirmed her commitment to upholding the rule of law. There are many who have commented on ...
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  • ICONIC-07 12 years ago

    HOMOSEXUALITY IS MORE OF AN ABNORMAL ISSUE THAN HUMAN RIGHT ISSUE, AND BEAUTIFUL GHANA MUST NOT CONDONE IT. THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR HOMOSEXUALITY.

    HOMOSEXUALITY IS AN ABOMINATION AND AT VARIANCE WITH CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE [R ...
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  • James Lartey 12 years ago

    Whoever you are, you may not know but there will be never an ALUTA in Ghana. Crawl back in the HOLE you call your home. Homosexuality exist in all cultures. Read a book please and EDUCATE yourself. Education will do you a lot ...
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  • son of GOD 12 years ago

    Tell me, what is the different between gossip and homo

  • Kk3 12 years ago

    Which people are in hell? Ghanaians, Europeans or Americans? Whomever this Ghanani is, you must get real! I can assure you no American or European stands in line in the stifling heat looking for visa to Ghana. Go figure..

  • HUMAN ACTIVIST 12 years ago

    JUST LIKE INTRODUCTION OF ANY VALUE, IT IS NO FOR NOW BUT WILL BE YES LATER. FEW DECADES AGO WHAT WAS THE FOOD, CLOTHING, MEANS OF TRANSPORT AND SOCIAL LIFESTYLE OF PEOPLE? FOR THE INTROUDTION OF RIGHTS IT COMES FIERCE UNDER ...
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  • James Lartey 12 years ago

    All I can say is, "he who is without sin, throw the first stone". It is sad as a society, we seem not to move forward instead of attack one another. Have you all sat down and asked yourself why will someone subject himself or ...
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  • son of GOD 12 years ago

    thank you man of GOD

  • justice 12 years ago

    IS BAWUMIA A TRUE MOSLEM? HE IS NOT TRUTHFUL

  • Nana Asare 12 years ago

    I THINK HOMOSEXUALITY IS NOT BE ENTERTAINED IN GHANA AND IT'S ABOUT TIME OUR PALIAMENT MAKE IT A CRIME IN THIS COUNTRY.

  • insight to the bone 12 years ago

    practicing homosexuality is frowned on by all the religions and cultures of the world but somehow they have managed to achieve a privileged status in most western countries and as a result their societies are in decay . of al ...
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  • Kwaku 12 years ago

    Kofi Abotsi,who gave birth to you, is it your father and another man or your father and your mother?

  • Nana Kofi 12 years ago

    Gays supposedly are sick. Put the penis into the anus which is passage for faeces and expect acceptance...even pigs to not have anal sex!! They eat faeces and endanger our humanness.We have to rewrite our textbooks. We will h ...
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  • Already 12 years ago

    Most hetero men either fuck women in the anus "which is a passage for faeces and expect acceptance" or dreaming about it.

  • JOEDUSU@YAHOO.COM 12 years ago

    I have read the universal declaration of human rights.
    NO WHERE in it does it say anyone has the right to engage in homosexuality or incest.

    Article 1.

    All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.T ...
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  • son of GOD 12 years ago

    thy shall not : steal, kill, worship any other gods, gossip, adultery,false witness and homo. so the ball is in your court. THANKS

  • Ajaaku 12 years ago

    The Nigerian Senate has criminalise this evil deed. Ghana Parliament should equally do same. This gay issue is foreign to us Africans. Let the Europeans and the Americans practise it to their doom. If it is good for them, it ...
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  • POSITION Z.T. 12 years ago

    If you have some important thing to do and you find it difficult to do, you occupy yourself by any unnecessary thing. this is no argument.

  • John Kpeglo 12 years ago

    The NRC has already said that 82% or so of Ghanaians say NO to same sex marriage or relationship. They asked the SC to decide on it. Whoever wants clarity should go to the SC!

  • DOKORDOKOR 12 years ago

    THIS BOY HAS BEEN KWASEA SINCE HIS DAYS IN AUGUSCO.ABOTSI YOU MAKE SOME OF US YOUR FRIEND SAD.WHY HAVE U TURN INTO SOME TRUMUTRUMU ADVOCATE?.

  • Atngabono Jonathan Agana 12 years ago

    good richly bless u lawyer Abotsi n Dr. Ayine.i agree with u and i tink its time Ghana takes its stand on homosexuality.my god save mother Ghana!

  • akos 12 years ago

    We are a nation of christians and if we stat copying the nations that believe in these kind of nonsense, we become like sodom and gomorrah. God will judge us as a nation. love your neighbor as your self it does not mean you ...
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  • KOKONSA 12 years ago

    ILLITERATE BASTARD. SODOM AND GOMORRAH INDEED - IN YOUR SMALL MIND.ARE YOU AWARE THE BIBLE HAS BEEN UPDATED??? OPEN YOUR MIND AND THINK BIG. WORSHIP YOUR OWN GOD AND NOT SOMEONE ELSE'

  • DODOWA 12 years ago

    What clarification do we need on homosexuals in Ghana? It is a NO. The practice is a taboo and the more we give it a platform the more people inject stupid prepositions to it. The fact that America and Britain wants it does ...
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  • KOKONSA 12 years ago

    Stop begging for your daily bread, then you can decide on these issues. You are weak,poor and depend on others for your very existence yet you want to condemn the practices of your benefactors.
    If you were in the animal kin ...
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  • skyflex 12 years ago

    why are our ministers doing so,have they forgotten Ghana is a christian country? ghanaians will never agree to it today nor tomorrow

  • KOFI - USA 12 years ago

    GO AND ASK THOSE KIDS THAT ATTENDED GIRLS SECONDARY SCHOOLS. THEY USED AND STILL HAVING SEX WITH THEIR JUNIORS (WHAT THE CALL SUPPIE). THAT IS LESBIANISM SO THE HAVE BEEN IN THE COUNTRY FOR A VERY LONG TIME. AS ALL THOSE W ...
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  • I love my country 12 years ago

    Skyflex, recently alot of Catholic priests have been arrested for defiling youngsters under their care. This has nothing to do with with religion,it is to do with ones sexual inclination. most of these people were abused in o ...
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  • zee 12 years ago

    Ms. Oye Lithur, must be mentaly ill and little demon in her brain.

  • German 12 years ago

    Ghana awake. Its really time!

  • frr your mind 12 years ago

    being gay is a choice a person makes.they should be left alone to practice whatever they feel like sexually.i have seen some gay cpls way happier and loving than ur `average` married man n woman cpl.i am not gay,but i have no ...
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  • SPARE US THIS NONSENSE...OYE 12 years ago

    Can Nana Oye tell us when and where a gay was subjected to inhumane treatment or discriminated against because of the person being gay or lesbian? Why is she trying to raise issues that doesn't exist? The "connomtee" should n ...
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  • KWABENA DANSOMAN 12 years ago

    THIS IS A NATIONAL ISSUE AND NOT ONLY AN ISSUE FOR NANA OYE LITHUR.IS ROBBERY,PROSTITUTION OR USAGE OF ILLICIT DRUG LEGAL?IS POLYGAMY LEGAL? WHAT ABOUT HOMOSEXUALITY?WHY SHOULD NANA SUFFER FOR OUR INABILITY TO DECIDE AS A NA ...
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  • HANNIBAL(Blessed by God) 12 years ago

    Every time you wake up there's some gay stuff to read.Why don't you kill all these gay satanists and spare us this nonsense.

  • TJ Hooker 12 years ago

    Ghana need to focus on development and economic growth and stop this Gay right business. Leave this business for American and the Western Europe to deal with it is their culture and I bet Obama will never sign any Gay right ...
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  • mojingles 12 years ago

    Proper interpretation by the courts and a good, solid and unqualified education of the Ghanaian masses some of whom still live in the dark ages....homosexuality is not a crime by any definition and attempts to suppress it are ...
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  • anayomi 12 years ago

    EUROPE AND THE US DEMAND EQUAL RIGHTS FOR GAYS OR NO MONEY WILL BE GIVEN TO GHANA

  • Already 12 years ago

    Even though I'm not against gay men I will not accept the West to pressure Ghana to accept homosexuality. That must come from the Ghanaians throug dialog. I will also however oppose if the same propanda Western media use to p ...
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  • Andy -krachi 12 years ago

    Ghana as we know, is country whose members are God fearing so any one engage his or herself in the upcoming unscruplous practise known as 'GAY' is an idiot and must be skinned to death.

  • opare 12 years ago

    ghana have nothing to say about gay we are not gay natoin

  • Kweku Eyram 12 years ago

    Hmmmmmmmmmm,i wish our great grand fathers were alive to witness this but guys which ever denomination(call it religion if u like) u belong to pls do a thorough research into whether the acts, rights, behaviour of our brother ...
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  • Cool Cat USA 12 years ago

    Ghana should not discuss such potic of Gays and Lisben issue. Ghana is well known as anti gay country. Men marry women. They sould not promote the foolish western lifestyle in Ghana.
    To me only foolish and idots follow su ...
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  • S.Dikaini 12 years ago

    No matter how we articulate the article 35,common sense will tell us our founding fathers did not include Homosexuality as a right because they all agreed that it is a taboo and abomination deeply rooted from our religions an ...
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  • Markeens Ndewura 12 years ago

    Time to welcome Boku Haram for cleansing.

  • oyinasky 12 years ago

    Why should the government be concerned with what i do in my bed room.please get us water and electricity 24/7 and stop talking about gay rights

  • Sankofa 12 years ago

    THe constitution does not prohibit discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation.

    Homosexuality is a criminal offence. The law must be strengthened and enforced to root out this vile, anti-social behaviour.