Mahama's gay 'pal' writes: In Bed With the President of Ghana?

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ELINAM 12 years ago

lol

lol
ELINAM 12 years ago

The look is all over his vice and him.

The look is all over his vice and him.
Gye Nyame 12 years ago

This article is all over the web, read it on NY Times. Question is why the double standards and hypocrisy of Mahama? He has been associating with the guy for 8 years and has his phone number to even reached him in India. Wow! ...
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This article is all over the web, read it on NY Times. Question is why the double standards and hypocrisy of Mahama? He has been associating with the guy for 8 years and has his phone number to even reached him in India. Wow! what is up with Mahama? Why is Mahama courting the gay community in America. Why do you think Solomon is targeting Mahama and people in important government positions in the third world including India? Is Mahama naive or just an idiot to see through Solomon?
KOLA, LONDON PROPER 12 years ago

Mahama is a married man to a woman named Lordina so what the heck is NPP all about trying to drag this fine gentleman's name in the mud?

And the NPP hasn't learnt it's lesson's to do with this kind of dirty politics.

Mahama is a married man to a woman named Lordina so what the heck is NPP all about trying to drag this fine gentleman's name in the mud?

And the NPP hasn't learnt it's lesson's to do with this kind of dirty politics.
visionary 12 years ago

What in the world is this headline for?
What kind of politics is this?
NPP don't be that ignorant publishing useless things like this !!????
IT IS SO MEANINGLESS !

What in the world is this headline for?
What kind of politics is this?
NPP don't be that ignorant publishing useless things like this !!????
IT IS SO MEANINGLESS !
Gye Nyame 12 years ago

Nothing to do with NPP, Solomon wrote this check it out on other sites on the Web.

Nothing to do with NPP, Solomon wrote this check it out on other sites on the Web.
Aku 12 years ago

CENSORHIP & THE CULTURE OF SILENCE!

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FREEDOM OF INFORMATION, YAMUTU!

Here is the original story which was deleted under the orders of the P/NDC and dramai mahama.

CENSORSHIP IS ON DISPLAY.

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Mahamah`s Pal writes. In Bed with the President of Ghana?

WHEN my husband-to-be and I met the Ghanaian politician John Dramani Mahama at a friend’s wedding near Accra eight years ago, I liked him immediately. I kept up with his fortunes mostly through mutual friends, and I was happy to learn in 2009 that he had been elected his nation’s vice president.

When I read a draft of his trenchant memoir, “My First Coup d’État,” in 2010, I offered to introduce him to some agents and editors in New York. Many people in the developed world expect African heads of state to be either terse and political or bloated and ideological. The surprise of John Mahama’s book is its tender humanism, and I thought it would go a long way toward breaking down prejudice in the United States.

I blurbed the book when it was published last July; I hosted a party to celebrate its publication; I conducted an onstage interview with John Mahama at the New York Public Library and I am thanked in the book’s acknowledgments.

Soon after, the Ghanaian president, John Atta Mills, died and John Mahama stepped into the presidency; in December, he was elected to another term. Two weeks ago, the Ghanaian press suddenly exploded with references to Mr. Mahama’s relationship with me.

“President John Dramani Mahama has been fingered to be in bed with one Mr. Andrew Solomon, a gay lobbyist,” blared one unfortunately worded report. Another announced, “Andrew Solomon reportedly gathered a few affluent people from the gay community to raise campaign funds for President Mahama with the understanding that when President Mahama won the elections, the president would push the gay rights agenda.” I was reported to have paid $20,000 for copies of the book.

The occasion of these revelations was Mr. Mahama’s appointment of what one newspaper called the “fiery human and gay rights advocate, Nana Oye Lithur” to head the newly established Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection. In confirmation hearings before a parliamentary committee, Ms. Lithur averred that “the rights of everybody, including homosexuals, should be protected,” thus invoking a firestorm. I was presumed to have pushed through her nomination, even though I had in fact never heard of her. The argument that Ms. Lithur was selected not for her formidable skills, but because of a foreign devil fit with the continuing position among some Africans that homosexuality is an import from the decadent West.

I have neither the ability nor the inclination to meddle in foreign elections, and I paid not one red cent for the book John Mahama inscribed to me. The only way I may have influenced him on gay rights was by welcoming him into the household of a joyful family with two dads. It is deeply unsettling to be implicated in a national scandal, to know that my attempts to be kind and helpful to someone would become his millstone.

On Friday, Feb. 1, the president’s spokesman said that President Mahama didn’t know me. On Saturday, the president called me to apologize. On Sunday, the government issued a statement that Mr. Mahama and I know each other, that I have never made a campaign contribution or persuaded anyone else to do so, and that President Mahama “does not subscribe to homosexualism and will not take any step to promote homosexualism in Ghana.” I am not sure what is involved in promoting homosexualism, but I am pleased to know that a cordial friendship with me does not constitute such an act.

The situation of gay people in most of Africa is deplorable, and the double talk from the Ghanaian administration has done little to assuage valid concerns. In the wake of this brouhaha, I have received hundreds of letters from Ghanaians via my Web site and Facebook. Half are from gay people about how dire their situation is. One said, “I am tired of this humiliation and embarrassment. I don’t know whether I am a gay. I am not a living being. I have tried to pretend to be what they wanted. I need your word of advice and help. Sorry to say I feel like committing suicide. My tears are dropping so badly that I have to end my e-mail here.”

But the other half are from straight allies, of whom there appear to be legions. One woman complained, “Men are deceiving me too much, so I want to join your LGBT please.” My favorite was, “I wish God has blessed me like you. I am not a gay but I respect and love so so much. May you live to always help mankind.”

By curious coincidence, this whole matter has unfolded while I am in India promoting a book that deals in large part with how any condition may go from being perceived as an illness to being lived as an identity. It draws on my experience of such a transition for gay people in the United States. When I first visited India, some 20 years ago, the only clearly gay people were destitute and marginalized. On my second trip, in the late 1990s, I met a subculture of rather soigné gay people, but their faces flushed whenever the thing we had in common was acknowledged. At the Jaipur Literature Festival last month, the “gay panel” attracted more than a thousand people who complained of the hideous prejudice they faced in India — but who were emboldened to object publicly to the problem in a tone that anticipated its ultimate resolution.

In Ghana, the articles that attacked President Mahama for knowing me referenced “the raging national debate on gay and lesbian rights” in Ghana. That there is such a debate — even if it’s a debate about whether to lynch us — is meaningful progress. The fact that local propagandists can plausibly suggest that the president of a West African country is in the hands of gay lobbyists reflects a changing world. I hope that President Mahama will seize this occasion to take a leadership role in the region on L.G.B.T. rights. The fact that so many people from his country wrote to me when the scandal broke indicates that many are thinking through these issues. I hope the time is not far off when to know someone like me will be less of a liability and more of an asset.

Andrew Solomon is the author, most recently, of “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity.”

~ New York Times
Atsu 12 years ago

CENSORHIP & THE CULTURE OF SILENCE!!!

DEMOCRACY, YAMUTU!!

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION, YAMUTU!

Here is the original story which was deleted under the orders of the P/NDC and dramai mahama.

CENSORSHIP IS ON DISPLAY.

...
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CENSORHIP & THE CULTURE OF SILENCE!!!

DEMOCRACY, YAMUTU!!

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION, YAMUTU!

Here is the original story which was deleted under the orders of the P/NDC and dramai mahama.

CENSORSHIP IS ON DISPLAY.

FREEDOM OF THE PRESS, YAMUTU!

DEMOCRACY, YAMUTU!

Mahamah`s Pal writes. In Bed with the President of Ghana?

WHEN my husband-to-be and I met the Ghanaian politician John Dramani Mahama at a friend’s wedding near Accra eight years ago, I liked him immediately. I kept up with his fortunes mostly through mutual friends, and I was happy to learn in 2009 that he had been elected his nation’s vice president.

When I read a draft of his trenchant memoir, “My First Coup d’État,” in 2010, I offered to introduce him to some agents and editors in New York. Many people in the developed world expect African heads of state to be either terse and political or bloated and ideological. The surprise of John Mahama’s book is its tender humanism, and I thought it would go a long way toward breaking down prejudice in the United States.

I blurbed the book when it was published last July; I hosted a party to celebrate its publication; I conducted an onstage interview with John Mahama at the New York Public Library and I am thanked in the book’s acknowledgments.

Soon after, the Ghanaian president, John Atta Mills, died and John Mahama stepped into the presidency; in December, he was elected to another term. Two weeks ago, the Ghanaian press suddenly exploded with references to Mr. Mahama’s relationship with me.

“President John Dramani Mahama has been fingered to be in bed with one Mr. Andrew Solomon, a gay lobbyist,” blared one unfortunately worded report. Another announced, “Andrew Solomon reportedly gathered a few affluent people from the gay community to raise campaign funds for President Mahama with the understanding that when President Mahama won the elections, the president would push the gay rights agenda.” I was reported to have paid $20,000 for copies of the book.

The occasion of these revelations was Mr. Mahama’s appointment of what one newspaper called the “fiery human and gay rights advocate, Nana Oye Lithur” to head the newly established Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection. In confirmation hearings before a parliamentary committee, Ms. Lithur averred that “the rights of everybody, including homosexuals, should be protected,” thus invoking a firestorm. I was presumed to have pushed through her nomination, even though I had in fact never heard of her. The argument that Ms. Lithur was selected not for her formidable skills, but because of a foreign devil fit with the continuing position among some Africans that homosexuality is an import from the decadent West.

I have neither the ability nor the inclination to meddle in foreign elections, and I paid not one red cent for the book John Mahama inscribed to me. The only way I may have influenced him on gay rights was by welcoming him into the household of a joyful family with two dads. It is deeply unsettling to be implicated in a national scandal, to know that my attempts to be kind and helpful to someone would become his millstone.

On Friday, Feb. 1, the president’s spokesman said that President Mahama didn’t know me. On Saturday, the president called me to apologize. On Sunday, the government issued a statement that Mr. Mahama and I know each other, that I have never made a campaign contribution or persuaded anyone else to do so, and that President Mahama “does not subscribe to homosexualism and will not take any step to promote homosexualism in Ghana.” I am not sure what is involved in promoting homosexualism, but I am pleased to know that a cordial friendship with me does not constitute such an act.

The situation of gay people in most of Africa is deplorable, and the double talk from the Ghanaian administration has done little to assuage valid concerns. In the wake of this brouhaha, I have received hundreds of letters from Ghanaians via my Web site and Facebook. Half are from gay people about how dire their situation is. One said, “I am tired of this humiliation and embarrassment. I don’t know whether I am a gay. I am not a living being. I have tried to pretend to be what they wanted. I need your word of advice and help. Sorry to say I feel like committing suicide. My tears are dropping so badly that I have to end my e-mail here.”

But the other half are from straight allies, of whom there appear to be legions. One woman complained, “Men are deceiving me too much, so I want to join your LGBT please.” My favorite was, “I wish God has blessed me like you. I am not a gay but I respect and love so so much. May you live to always help mankind.”

By curious coincidence, this whole matter has unfolded while I am in India promoting a book that deals in large part with how any condition may go from being perceived as an illness to being lived as an identity. It draws on my experience of such a transition for gay people in the United States. When I first visited India, some 20 years ago, the only clearly gay people were destitute and marginalized. On my second trip, in the late 1990s, I met a subculture of rather soigné gay people, but their faces flushed whenever the thing we had in common was acknowledged. At the Jaipur Literature Festival last month, the “gay panel” attracted more than a thousand people who complained of the hideous prejudice they faced in India — but who were emboldened to object publicly to the problem in a tone that anticipated its ultimate resolution.

In Ghana, the articles that attacked President Mahama for knowing me referenced “the raging national debate on gay and lesbian rights” in Ghana. That there is such a debate — even if it’s a debate about whether to lynch us — is meaningful progress. The fact that local propagandists can plausibly suggest that the president of a West African country is in the hands of gay lobbyists reflects a changing world. I hope that President Mahama will seize this occasion to take a leadership role in the region on L.G.B.T. rights. The fact that so many people from his country wrote to me when the scandal broke indicates that many are thinking through these issues. I hope the time is not far off when to know someone like me will be less of a liability and more of an asset.

Andrew Solomon is the author, most recently, of “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity.”

~ New York Times
Atsu 12 years ago

CENSORHIP & THE CULTURE OF SILENCE!!!!!

DEMOCRACY, YAMUTU!!

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION, YAMUTU!

Here is the original story which was deleted under the orders of the P/NDC and dramai mahama.

CENSORSHIP IS ON DISPLAY.
...
read full comment

CENSORHIP & THE CULTURE OF SILENCE!!!!!

DEMOCRACY, YAMUTU!!

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION, YAMUTU!

Here is the original story which was deleted under the orders of the P/NDC and dramai mahama.

CENSORSHIP IS ON DISPLAY.

FREEDOM OF THE PRESS, YAMUTU!

DEMOCRACY, YAMUTU!

Mahamah`s Pal writes. In Bed with the President of Ghana?

WHEN my husband-to-be and I met the Ghanaian politician John Dramani Mahama at a friend’s wedding near Accra eight years ago, I liked him immediately. I kept up with his fortunes mostly through mutual friends, and I was happy to learn in 2009 that he had been elected his nation’s vice president.

When I read a draft of his trenchant memoir, “My First Coup d’État,” in 2010, I offered to introduce him to some agents and editors in New York. Many people in the developed world expect African heads of state to be either terse and political or bloated and ideological. The surprise of John Mahama’s book is its tender humanism, and I thought it would go a long way toward breaking down prejudice in the United States.

I blurbed the book when it was published last July; I hosted a party to celebrate its publication; I conducted an onstage interview with John Mahama at the New York Public Library and I am thanked in the book’s acknowledgments.

Soon after, the Ghanaian president, John Atta Mills, died and John Mahama stepped into the presidency; in December, he was elected to another term. Two weeks ago, the Ghanaian press suddenly exploded with references to Mr. Mahama’s relationship with me.

“President John Dramani Mahama has been fingered to be in bed with one Mr. Andrew Solomon, a gay lobbyist,” blared one unfortunately worded report. Another announced, “Andrew Solomon reportedly gathered a few affluent people from the gay community to raise campaign funds for President Mahama with the understanding that when President Mahama won the elections, the president would push the gay rights agenda.” I was reported to have paid $20,000 for copies of the book.

The occasion of these revelations was Mr. Mahama’s appointment of what one newspaper called the “fiery human and gay rights advocate, Nana Oye Lithur” to head the newly established Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection. In confirmation hearings before a parliamentary committee, Ms. Lithur averred that “the rights of everybody, including homosexuals, should be protected,” thus invoking a firestorm. I was presumed to have pushed through her nomination, even though I had in fact never heard of her. The argument that Ms. Lithur was selected not for her formidable skills, but because of a foreign devil fit with the continuing position among some Africans that homosexuality is an import from the decadent West.

I have neither the ability nor the inclination to meddle in foreign elections, and I paid not one red cent for the book John Mahama inscribed to me. The only way I may have influenced him on gay rights was by welcoming him into the household of a joyful family with two dads. It is deeply unsettling to be implicated in a national scandal, to know that my attempts to be kind and helpful to someone would become his millstone.

On Friday, Feb. 1, the president’s spokesman said that President Mahama didn’t know me. On Saturday, the president called me to apologize. On Sunday, the government issued a statement that Mr. Mahama and I know each other, that I have never made a campaign contribution or persuaded anyone else to do so, and that President Mahama “does not subscribe to homosexualism and will not take any step to promote homosexualism in Ghana.” I am not sure what is involved in promoting homosexualism, but I am pleased to know that a cordial friendship with me does not constitute such an act.

The situation of gay people in most of Africa is deplorable, and the double talk from the Ghanaian administration has done little to assuage valid concerns. In the wake of this brouhaha, I have received hundreds of letters from Ghanaians via my Web site and Facebook. Half are from gay people about how dire their situation is. One said, “I am tired of this humiliation and embarrassment. I don’t know whether I am a gay. I am not a living being. I have tried to pretend to be what they wanted. I need your word of advice and help. Sorry to say I feel like committing suicide. My tears are dropping so badly that I have to end my e-mail here.”

But the other half are from straight allies, of whom there appear to be legions. One woman complained, “Men are deceiving me too much, so I want to join your LGBT please.” My favorite was, “I wish God has blessed me like you. I am not a gay but I respect and love so so much. May you live to always help mankind.”

By curious coincidence, this whole matter has unfolded while I am in India promoting a book that deals in large part with how any condition may go from being perceived as an illness to being lived as an identity. It draws on my experience of such a transition for gay people in the United States. When I first visited India, some 20 years ago, the only clearly gay people were destitute and marginalized. On my second trip, in the late 1990s, I met a subculture of rather soigné gay people, but their faces flushed whenever the thing we had in common was acknowledged. At the Jaipur Literature Festival last month, the “gay panel” attracted more than a thousand people who complained of the hideous prejudice they faced in India — but who were emboldened to object publicly to the problem in a tone that anticipated its ultimate resolution.

In Ghana, the articles that attacked President Mahama for knowing me referenced “the raging national debate on gay and lesbian rights” in Ghana. That there is such a debate — even if it’s a debate about whether to lynch us — is meaningful progress. The fact that local propagandists can plausibly suggest that the president of a West African country is in the hands of gay lobbyists reflects a changing world. I hope that President Mahama will seize this occasion to take a leadership role in the region on L.G.B.T. rights. The fact that so many people from his country wrote to me when the scandal broke indicates that many are thinking through these issues. I hope the time is not far off when to know someone like me will be less of a liability and more of an asset.

Andrew Solomon is the author, most recently, of “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity.”

~ New York Times
Atsu 12 years ago

CENSORHIP & THE CULTURE OF SILENCE!!!!!!!

DEMOCRACY, YAMUTU!!

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION, YAMUTU!

Here is the original story which was deleted under the orders of the P/NDC and dramai mahama.

CENSORSHIP IS ON DISPLAY. ...
read full comment

CENSORHIP & THE CULTURE OF SILENCE!!!!!!!

DEMOCRACY, YAMUTU!!

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION, YAMUTU!

Here is the original story which was deleted under the orders of the P/NDC and dramai mahama.

CENSORSHIP IS ON DISPLAY.

FREEDOM OF THE PRESS, YAMUTU!

DEMOCRACY, YAMUTU!

Mahamah`s Pal writes. In Bed with the President of Ghana?

WHEN my husband-to-be and I met the Ghanaian politician John Dramani Mahama at a friend’s wedding near Accra eight years ago, I liked him immediately. I kept up with his fortunes mostly through mutual friends, and I was happy to learn in 2009 that he had been elected his nation’s vice president.

When I read a draft of his trenchant memoir, “My First Coup d’État,” in 2010, I offered to introduce him to some agents and editors in New York. Many people in the developed world expect African heads of state to be either terse and political or bloated and ideological. The surprise of John Mahama’s book is its tender humanism, and I thought it would go a long way toward breaking down prejudice in the United States.

I blurbed the book when it was published last July; I hosted a party to celebrate its publication; I conducted an onstage interview with John Mahama at the New York Public Library and I am thanked in the book’s acknowledgments.

Soon after, the Ghanaian president, John Atta Mills, died and John Mahama stepped into the presidency; in December, he was elected to another term. Two weeks ago, the Ghanaian press suddenly exploded with references to Mr. Mahama’s relationship with me.

“President John Dramani Mahama has been fingered to be in bed with one Mr. Andrew Solomon, a gay lobbyist,” blared one unfortunately worded report. Another announced, “Andrew Solomon reportedly gathered a few affluent people from the gay community to raise campaign funds for President Mahama with the understanding that when President Mahama won the elections, the president would push the gay rights agenda.” I was reported to have paid $20,000 for copies of the book.

The occasion of these revelations was Mr. Mahama’s appointment of what one newspaper called the “fiery human and gay rights advocate, Nana Oye Lithur” to head the newly established Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection. In confirmation hearings before a parliamentary committee, Ms. Lithur averred that “the rights of everybody, including homosexuals, should be protected,” thus invoking a firestorm. I was presumed to have pushed through her nomination, even though I had in fact never heard of her. The argument that Ms. Lithur was selected not for her formidable skills, but because of a foreign devil fit with the continuing position among some Africans that homosexuality is an import from the decadent West.

I have neither the ability nor the inclination to meddle in foreign elections, and I paid not one red cent for the book John Mahama inscribed to me. The only way I may have influenced him on gay rights was by welcoming him into the household of a joyful family with two dads. It is deeply unsettling to be implicated in a national scandal, to know that my attempts to be kind and helpful to someone would become his millstone.

On Friday, Feb. 1, the president’s spokesman said that President Mahama didn’t know me. On Saturday, the president called me to apologize. On Sunday, the government issued a statement that Mr. Mahama and I know each other, that I have never made a campaign contribution or persuaded anyone else to do so, and that President Mahama “does not subscribe to homosexualism and will not take any step to promote homosexualism in Ghana.” I am not sure what is involved in promoting homosexualism, but I am pleased to know that a cordial friendship with me does not constitute such an act.

The situation of gay people in most of Africa is deplorable, and the double talk from the Ghanaian administration has done little to assuage valid concerns. In the wake of this brouhaha, I have received hundreds of letters from Ghanaians via my Web site and Facebook. Half are from gay people about how dire their situation is. One said, “I am tired of this humiliation and embarrassment. I don’t know whether I am a gay. I am not a living being. I have tried to pretend to be what they wanted. I need your word of advice and help. Sorry to say I feel like committing suicide. My tears are dropping so badly that I have to end my e-mail here.”

But the other half are from straight allies, of whom there appear to be legions. One woman complained, “Men are deceiving me too much, so I want to join your LGBT please.” My favorite was, “I wish God has blessed me like you. I am not a gay but I respect and love so so much. May you live to always help mankind.”

By curious coincidence, this whole matter has unfolded while I am in India promoting a book that deals in large part with how any condition may go from being perceived as an illness to being lived as an identity. It draws on my experience of such a transition for gay people in the United States. When I first visited India, some 20 years ago, the only clearly gay people were destitute and marginalized. On my second trip, in the late 1990s, I met a subculture of rather soigné gay people, but their faces flushed whenever the thing we had in common was acknowledged. At the Jaipur Literature Festival last month, the “gay panel” attracted more than a thousand people who complained of the hideous prejudice they faced in India — but who were emboldened to object publicly to the problem in a tone that anticipated its ultimate resolution.

In Ghana, the articles that attacked President Mahama for knowing me referenced “the raging national debate on gay and lesbian rights” in Ghana. That there is such a debate — even if it’s a debate about whether to lynch us — is meaningful progress. The fact that local propagandists can plausibly suggest that the president of a West African country is in the hands of gay lobbyists reflects a changing world. I hope that President Mahama will seize this occasion to take a leadership role in the region on L.G.B.T. rights. The fact that so many people from his country wrote to me when the scandal broke indicates that many are thinking through these issues. I hope the time is not far off when to know someone like me will be less of a liability and more of an asset.

Andrew Solomon is the author, most recently, of “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity.”

~ New York Times

anonymous 12 years ago

this article is a disgrace to the people of Ghana. how can this idiot who cant tell between what is wrong and right teach us about life

this article is a disgrace to the people of Ghana. how can this idiot who cant tell between what is wrong and right teach us about life
TerriblY Spe cifiC 12 years ago

HOW CAN JOHN MAHAMA BE A FRIEND TO THIS MAN

HOW CAN JOHN MAHAMA BE A FRIEND TO THIS MAN
OH GHFUO, WHY SO PRIMITIVE? 12 years ago

HOW CAN DROSSMANI BE GAY....?

HOW CAN DROSSMANI BE GAY....?
JATO 12 years ago

OYIWA!

OYIWA!
MV. Dodoo; usa 12 years ago

The best place is CNN and BBC. If you are a gay.NONSENSE

The best place is CNN and BBC. If you are a gay.NONSENSE
JATO 12 years ago

THE SOULS OF OUR KILLED CITIZENS BY J.J.RAWLINGS AND BOACHIE GYAN WILL NEVER REST UNTILL ALL THE CRIMES AND CORRUPTION IN AFRC-P/NDC COMES OUT.

THE SOULS OF OUR KILLED CITIZENS BY J.J.RAWLINGS AND BOACHIE GYAN WILL NEVER REST UNTILL ALL THE CRIMES AND CORRUPTION IN AFRC-P/NDC COMES OUT.
Anonymous Coward 12 years ago

Complete gibberish. Trying hard to promote gayism in Ghana. This won't work Mr Gay master Andy Solomon.

Complete gibberish. Trying hard to promote gayism in Ghana. This won't work Mr Gay master Andy Solomon.
AFRICAN 12 years ago

PROMOTING THE GAY LIFE ALL OVER THE WORLD. YOU DESTROYED GREECE AND NOW USA. WHY DID GOD CREATE AT ALL. WITHOUT YOU THE WORLD WOULD BE A BETTER PLACE.

PROMOTING THE GAY LIFE ALL OVER THE WORLD. YOU DESTROYED GREECE AND NOW USA. WHY DID GOD CREATE AT ALL. WITHOUT YOU THE WORLD WOULD BE A BETTER PLACE.
Teacher 12 years ago

Our Creator Allmighty God gave us a perfect example from the beginning in the garden of Eden....Adam & Eve. If a hidden force is now usig ecomomic reason to turn God's natural means to such and awkward practices, may God save ...
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Our Creator Allmighty God gave us a perfect example from the beginning in the garden of Eden....Adam & Eve. If a hidden force is now usig ecomomic reason to turn God's natural means to such and awkward practices, may God save mankind. These things has contributed for mans distruction from the beginning of time. Advice is, let anyone who thinks that direction is the right one go for it. There was an occation two gay men fought over underwear.... Your guess is as good as mine. Two strong macho men in relationship dangerously throwing blows at each other. One of them is booked for court as I am writing. So let them do it. Time will reverse it to how Our Creator want it. Amen.
Maria 12 years ago

Ah! The mystery and butaey of it all is that I may, in fact, be there! But will you know me, BosGuy? It is, after all, a "Masquerade!" I may be that devastatingly handsome, tall, dark-haired stranger who nods in your directi ...
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Ah! The mystery and butaey of it all is that I may, in fact, be there! But will you know me, BosGuy? It is, after all, a "Masquerade!" I may be that devastatingly handsome, tall, dark-haired stranger who nods in your direction! Or that rakish, blond fellow who brushes beside you. I might be the olive-skinned roue who offers you a drink. Or that dark-skinned charmer who requests the honor of sitting next to you! To borrow a phrase, I may be here, or I may be there, but I remain elusive! Of course, my cowboy boots may give me away!!!

Heloise 12 years ago

Wow! Talk about a poistng knocking my socks off!

Wow! Talk about a poistng knocking my socks off!
Amy 12 years ago

Who is the idiot here?

Who is the idiot here?
GRACEEEEE 12 years ago

THE PULL HIM DOWN SPIRIT WILL KILL THOSE WHO NEVER WANT OTHERS TO PROGRESS. EIIIIIIIIIIIII GHANAIANS. REPENT. LET MAHAMA BE FREEE LIKE NANA'S FREE EDUCATION

THE PULL HIM DOWN SPIRIT WILL KILL THOSE WHO NEVER WANT OTHERS TO PROGRESS. EIIIIIIIIIIIII GHANAIANS. REPENT. LET MAHAMA BE FREEE LIKE NANA'S FREE EDUCATION
PAULYYYYN 12 years ago

SO YOU ARE ADMITTING THAT MAHAMA IS NOT HAVING A PEACE OF MIND AND NANA IS HAVING A PEACE OF MIND.
'NA WHO CAUSE AM' ? DON'T FORCE YOUR PRESIDENCY ON MOST GHANAIANS.

SO YOU ARE ADMITTING THAT MAHAMA IS NOT HAVING A PEACE OF MIND AND NANA IS HAVING A PEACE OF MIND.
'NA WHO CAUSE AM' ? DON'T FORCE YOUR PRESIDENCY ON MOST GHANAIANS.
HASSAN RASTA GERMANY 12 years ago

WHO SAYS GHANAIANS NEED A PRESIDENT AS ARROGANT AS NANA?

WHO SAYS GHANAIANS NEED A PRESIDENT AS ARROGANT AS NANA?
KOLA 12 years ago

YOU ARE AN IDIOT WHAT IS THE LINK

YOU ARE AN IDIOT WHAT IS THE LINK
kofi 12 years ago

You are very stupid. make small research for yourself. article is boldly written in nytimes.

You are very stupid. make small research for yourself. article is boldly written in nytimes.
KOLA 12 years ago

FOOL

FOOL
MR. FIGURE-OUT 12 years ago

I am not a homosexual, neither am I a bisexual but don't have any problem with gays. People have the right to choose whatever social life they want to leave, so far as they don't break the laws on the land. Nobody is claiming ...
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I am not a homosexual, neither am I a bisexual but don't have any problem with gays. People have the right to choose whatever social life they want to leave, so far as they don't break the laws on the land. Nobody is claiming Thief-Mahama is gay, his double standards is what is at stake here. He denied through his communications minister, the Ayariga Boy, that he never had any association with that 'homon', that Andrew Solomon guy only for us to know he(Mahama) has been in cohort with him for almost a decade. Anyways, is it b'cos of Andy Solomon that Mahama chose the alleged Gay vice president? Some observers wonna know.
WTF?@#$%! 12 years ago

I live outside Ghana and was trying to inform myself about all the brouhaha with Oye Lithur's appointment. When I googled Oye Lithur's name, I came upon this video link of Gays in Ghana:

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I live outside Ghana and was trying to inform myself about all the brouhaha with Oye Lithur's appointment. When I googled Oye Lithur's name, I came upon this video link of Gays in Ghana:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EmvW2juke8

It was unbelievable. Ghana is now just like any Western country. Ghanaians are now very "sophisticated" (LOL). You can find everything in Ghana. Heroin, cocaine? No problem. Robbers with AK-47s? No problem. Multi-millionares, billionaires? No problem. Ghanaians with American accents? British accents? Jamaican accents? No problem. Women with "Caucasian" hairs? "Brazilian" hair? "Indian" hair? "Blondes", Blue eyes, green eyes? No problem. Fashions? Don't even go there!

Gays? Watch the video for yourself!

yorkeshire 12 years ago

U a just fucken poof go & stick the fucken dick on ur ass bitch why u atractive to ur fellow genda i think is sickness specially male

U a just fucken poof go & stick the fucken dick on ur ass bitch why u atractive to ur fellow genda i think is sickness specially male
Ras 12 years ago

Another hopeless, helpless Council ghetto illiterate. Knows all the ignorant, thug lingo but can't read a single word of English. Sooner or later an obscure stabbing statistic.

Another hopeless, helpless Council ghetto illiterate. Knows all the ignorant, thug lingo but can't read a single word of English. Sooner or later an obscure stabbing statistic.
OSEI TAWIAH 12 years ago

I have already watched the video and I was shocked and dumbfounded.

I have already watched the video and I was shocked and dumbfounded.
HASSAN RASTA GERMANY 12 years ago

SO BETTER USE UR SENSE AND DON^T WAIT FOR ANYONE TO TELL U THESE IS A PROPAGANDA OF THE NPP^S "THATS ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SO BETTER USE UR SENSE AND DON^T WAIT FOR ANYONE TO TELL U THESE IS A PROPAGANDA OF THE NPP^S "THATS ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ganaba 12 years ago

ARE YOU SAYING THAT A MARRIED MAN CAN'T BE GAY AT THE SAME TIME ?
YOU ARE A NOVICE. ASK MR. ANDREW SOLOMON WHEATHER THERE AREN'T MEN WHO ARE BOTH HERTRO AND HOMOSEXSUAL.
YOUR ARGUMENT IS BASELESS.

ARE YOU SAYING THAT A MARRIED MAN CAN'T BE GAY AT THE SAME TIME ?
YOU ARE A NOVICE. ASK MR. ANDREW SOLOMON WHEATHER THERE AREN'T MEN WHO ARE BOTH HERTRO AND HOMOSEXSUAL.
YOUR ARGUMENT IS BASELESS.
Yaa Anane 12 years ago

Kola, who told you that a man with a wife can't be gay. Ex New Jersey governor had a wife and a child but he was still gay. His wife was standing beside him when he publicly announced that he was gay so don't be ignorant. Don ...
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Kola, who told you that a man with a wife can't be gay. Ex New Jersey governor had a wife and a child but he was still gay. His wife was standing beside him when he publicly announced that he was gay so don't be ignorant. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying Pres. Mahama is but I'll not be surprised because it's possible. God forbid!!!
Pelicles 12 years ago

The article is in the New York times so, why are you blaming NPP? Your president is gay and he should come out and deny that. There are prominent people who are married to women yet, they sleep with men. A case in point is ...
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The article is in the New York times so, why are you blaming NPP? Your president is gay and he should come out and deny that. There are prominent people who are married to women yet, they sleep with men. A case in point is the former New Jersey governor, Jim MacGreevey. He is married with children yet, he was having an affair with another man.

Your president is full of shit to allow this known gay motherfucker to come into his life. NDC is full of such "rats" and they will infest the entire nation with the pathogens they are carrying. Tweakai.
KOLA 12 years ago

STUPID

STUPID
MR. FIGURE-OUT 12 years ago

Fetish Priest Dance And the Meaning( akom ne nkyeremuu). So Thief-Mahama chose Gay-AMissah Arthur to please Andy Solomon and the international gay community! Ohoooooooo! Mahama ass is exposed big time. So who does Mahama thin ...
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Fetish Priest Dance And the Meaning( akom ne nkyeremuu). So Thief-Mahama chose Gay-AMissah Arthur to please Andy Solomon and the international gay community! Ohoooooooo! Mahama ass is exposed big time. So who does Mahama thinks he is deceiving when he openly denounce his support for gay rights? Eish! Time will tell.
Uncle Al 12 years ago

So what is the big deal about that, is he not human just like you? Ghanaians should object to this stupid gay bashing nonsense and recognise that one's sexual orientation does not change one's humanity. I'm tired of these so ...
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So what is the big deal about that, is he not human just like you? Ghanaians should object to this stupid gay bashing nonsense and recognise that one's sexual orientation does not change one's humanity. I'm tired of these so called 'men of God' spewing out hatred for gays, and bashing human rights advocates, they refuse to see that God loves all, regardless of one's sexual orientation. How about those pastors duping people of their hard earned incomes and fornicating with the wives, and women of their congregation. Don't they believe these acts are sin and abomination to God? We need to stop these backward behavior that is tearing the country apart. I was so shocked and disappointed to read the tantrums of the Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana directed at Nana Oye-Lithur, the insults was uncalled for, what was her 'sin'? Advocating for the HUMAN RIGHTS of gay & lesbian people of Ghana. WE MUST BE CIVIL IN DEALING WITH THINGS WE DISAGREE ON. Gye Nyame you need more education to help enlighten you deal more positively with the Human Race, it is very complex.
Gye Nyame 12 years ago

You don't get it -- I have no problems with the LGBTs, and I think they deserve to be treated as any human being, go back and read all my archived comments on the gay issue and you will understand my view point. My point is ...
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You don't get it -- I have no problems with the LGBTs, and I think they deserve to be treated as any human being, go back and read all my archived comments on the gay issue and you will understand my view point. My point is why is the president and the administration doing the "double talk"? The hypocrisy is what I have a problem with and that is what Solomon is also questioning.
GOLD COAST 12 years ago

Ghana has embraced Democracy with all attendant secular rights which protect us all - disabled,albinos, hunchbacks,women and girls,children, left-handed&right-handed Ghanaians. Yet,some unscrupolous politicians and false and ...
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Ghana has embraced Democracy with all attendant secular rights which protect us all - disabled,albinos, hunchbacks,women and girls,children, left-handed&right-handed Ghanaians. Yet,some unscrupolous politicians and false and hypocritical pastors,want to bypass the Constitution and enforce their homophobic nonsense on Ghanaians.

Chief among them is Rev.Emmanuel Martey,a coward who rather amusingly, trashed Oye Lithur recently.The Most Rev.Dr.Professor was once a student at universities in two advanced democracies - Britain and U.S.

During those years, he was taught not only by heterosexual professors, but also by others who were gay.His peers in class in New York City(with the second largest concentration of homosexuals in any city in U.S.)were a mixture of different nationalities, heterosexuals and homosexuals as yours truly has been told.Probably,he was also seen by gay doctors,dentists and nurses.And his landlord and neighbors might have been homosexuals.

All through those years,as a student in New York and England,he never questioned people's right to be who they were.Like a coward,he kept his mouth shut,and smiled like a typical African abroad - to succesfully get his degree and run home to be a one-eyed giant in a land of the blind and ignorance.

Today,he's all over the place,leading a pack of "Pastors", "Ministers","Rev.Drs.","Profs.","Moderators","Archbishops","Bishops","Prophets" and what have you,to demonize homosexuals and homosexuality. Would JESUS do or say things that some of these religious "leaders" are saying?Absolutely no!

But don't tell that to these folks and their blind and hypocitical supporters - when they're being worshipped more than the SON OF GOD himself.These ministers have embraced this foreign religion,have conflated it with their own bogus and outdated cultural values and mores.

Today,you hear them "outpoping" the Pope - and the Pontif himself SUPPORTS GAY RIGHTS.The 1997 edition of the Catechism of the Catholic Church states ,"The number of men and women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies is negligible.This inclination which is objectively disordered,constitutes for most of them a trial.They must be accepted with respect,compassion,and sensitivity.Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided.These persons are called to fulfill God's will in their lives,and if they are Christians,to unite to the sacrifice of the Lord's Cross,the difficulties they may encounter from their condition."

The Emeritus Archbishop of South Africa has chasatized his fellow men of the cloth who hide behind the Bible and spew homophobic vitriol.He said,"All are God's children".

Prominent among those who have called for the recognitiopn and protection of homasexual rights,include Kofi Annan,Wole Soyinka, Nelson Mandela and Nadine Gordimer.And South Africa, is the only country in the world with the rights of homosexuals protected in their Constitution.

Yes,South Africa is an African country,with African culture and is the most enlightened as well - having the most powerful and dynamic economy in the continent,So those ingnorant Africans complaining about the demise of the African culture,should shut up( to be polite).

Well before the Whitemen came to Africa,homosexuality existed in African cultures from Libya to Southern Africa and from pre-colonial Ghana to Ethiopia.Those who want to know the truth should do their research,instead of talking nonsense for illiterate and semi-illiterates to absorb.

History records that the first known homosexual relationship occured in ancient Egypt - in the palace of King Niaserre -between manicurits Khumhotep and Niankhnum,about 2,400 BC.

Pres.Mahama should stas strong as a leader,and not let these fanatical Christians goad him to do something unconstitutional. Afterall,foreign taxpayers pay for 40% of our budget and Ghana is a signatory of U.N's Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Pres.Obama should stand by his words -to prevent rabid hopmophobes from entering the U.S.,the EU should do the same.

PEACE
GOLD COAST 12 years ago

*IGNORANCE

*IGNORANCE
Camila 12 years ago

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Mat 12 years ago

oooooooooxi...dn ginetai sttraos apo gay....ma pws s perase auto apo to myalo...oi gay einai ekswghinoi ..pane stn planhth tous strato...eleos...esy p to eipes..apo poion planhth eisai? gt mallon zeis stn kosmo tn diko s..mei ...
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oooooooooxi...dn ginetai sttraos apo gay....ma pws s perase auto apo to myalo...oi gay einai ekswghinoi ..pane stn planhth tous strato...eleos...esy p to eipes..apo poion planhth eisai? gt mallon zeis stn kosmo tn diko s..meine ekei filarako einai kalytera gia olous
Emrah 12 years ago

I think you hit a bullesye there fellas!

I think you hit a bullesye there fellas!
pachiko 12 years ago

This Gay man called Andrew Solomon is sick and smells badly and what a fuck does he think he is to mingle in Ghanaian affairs. Andrew Soloman you better zip your stinky mouth and stay where you are. When a wrong leader who i ...
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This Gay man called Andrew Solomon is sick and smells badly and what a fuck does he think he is to mingle in Ghanaian affairs. Andrew Soloman you better zip your stinky mouth and stay where you are. When a wrong leader who is dumb is elected, things fall apart. When you look at this president's face, you can sense that he is daft with no vision for the country. We Ghanaians should brace for the worst as the country is heading for disaster. Since he w, ranging as sworn in, there had been problems after problems after problems ranging rigging of votes with the EC, 1.5 tons of GOLD missing, imposing Gays on Ghanaians with appoinentment of Gay Minister which Ghanaians have expressed their strong opposition and many other controvecial appointments.
Avinash 12 years ago

Whenever I initially ctmnemoed I clicked on the Notify me any time new comments are added checkbox and now every time a comment is added I receive 4 emails with the identical comment.

Whenever I initially ctmnemoed I clicked on the Notify me any time new comments are added checkbox and now every time a comment is added I receive 4 emails with the identical comment.
Ahmet 12 years ago

Kudos! What a neat way of tihkning about it.

Kudos! What a neat way of tihkning about it.
Yaa Nkosuo 12 years ago

We ain't seen or heard nothing yet.

Welcome to the House of Fun now.

Confusionists Akwaaba!!

We ain't seen or heard nothing yet.

Welcome to the House of Fun now.

Confusionists Akwaaba!!
Amy 12 years ago

It is not a crime to be gay. People are born that way. We do not have to understand it but accept and respect who they are.

It is not a crime to be gay. People are born that way. We do not have to understand it but accept and respect who they are.
Kissi 12 years ago

Mr or Mrs Solomon or whatever you called yourself, we dont need your amerikkkan bullshit in Africa or Ghana.The reality which you dont know is that most of the people writing to you from Ghana or Africa need your money rather ...
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Mr or Mrs Solomon or whatever you called yourself, we dont need your amerikkkan bullshit in Africa or Ghana.The reality which you dont know is that most of the people writing to you from Ghana or Africa need your money rather than your bullshit.Ghanaians are clever in taking advantage of situations like this.But honestly I did not know before and that made me to admire and respect president Mahama in the past.Now that it is in the open that the president of an honourable nation like Ghana is in bed a gay man or gay woman, he is finished for me.I am not sure if he can still finish his four year term in Ghana.But certainly mahamas political career is finished in Ghana beyond the four year term.What do you people take us for??? Can you go and promote your gay nonsense in Saudi Arabia or any Arab land?Do you think we want to be a society full of moral decadence like yours?Please barricade your homosexual self in Amerikkka and leave the good people of Ghana alone with your nonsense.We say we dont want that period.
HAWA YAKUBU 12 years ago

If they are both gays then your fat lips would be sucking their dicks every day. Bitch

If they are both gays then your fat lips would be sucking their dicks every day. Bitch
ROCKY 12 years ago

I'm sure you know how best to suck it since you are already in the business of homosexuality,twart. It's a shame and a curse for your president to be associated to such people, fool.

I'm sure you know how best to suck it since you are already in the business of homosexuality,twart. It's a shame and a curse for your president to be associated to such people, fool.
ujah. 12 years ago

Culturally we hate this LBGT,people , so a law must be acted to barn them,they are full of evil. None of that should be allowed in our country,if Mahama and his Vice are pro-gay they domed .

Culturally we hate this LBGT,people , so a law must be acted to barn them,they are full of evil. None of that should be allowed in our country,if Mahama and his Vice are pro-gay they domed .
shakara 12 years ago

We are not interested in gaylords.

We are not interested in gaylords.
DrG 12 years ago

fucking shit pusher and bummer. Take it elsewhere you faggot!

fucking shit pusher and bummer. Take it elsewhere you faggot!
Michael 12 years ago

Even the devil quoted the bible to support his evil. I am not surprise Mr. Solomon is trying to make homosexuality less evil. John Mahama is a christian; he dares not promote gay rights here in Ghana

Even the devil quoted the bible to support his evil. I am not surprise Mr. Solomon is trying to make homosexuality less evil. John Mahama is a christian; he dares not promote gay rights here in Ghana
Gye Nyame 12 years ago

So why is Mahama associating with the gay community in the US and attending their parties? Was Solomon the only guy in the US who could have promoted his book? There is something fishy and very untrustworthy about Mahama. He ...
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So why is Mahama associating with the gay community in the US and attending their parties? Was Solomon the only guy in the US who could have promoted his book? There is something fishy and very untrustworthy about Mahama. He needs to stop this double standards and come clean. Well, if you are calling Solomon the devil, then it is evident that your president has been eating with the devil.
Joyce 12 years ago

Ghanaweb why are you deleting the comments?

Ghanaweb why are you deleting the comments?
Gye Nyame 12 years ago

Ghanaweb took the artcle off their site but must have realized that the article is all over the Web already so reposted it hence the missing comments.

Ghanaweb took the artcle off their site but must have realized that the article is all over the Web already so reposted it hence the missing comments.
Mark 12 years ago

This is absolute nonsense

This is absolute nonsense
Eric 12 years ago

Any political party that allow this demonic life style in our country will never be given the opportunity to lead our beloved Ghana. I hope President John Dramani will avoid these people as our former President Kufour did. Ev ...
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Any political party that allow this demonic life style in our country will never be given the opportunity to lead our beloved Ghana. I hope President John Dramani will avoid these people as our former President Kufour did. Even though I support NDC over NPP I respect Kufour for denying the devils a chance to operate in Ghana. Please President John Dramani spear us the trouble of having to explain to our little ones the reason why a man goes to bed with another man or a woman with another woman. Please President Dramani if you don't know what to do in this case go and see President Kufour for advice
Dasana 12 years ago

This is crazy and surely sings of the end times. see who are talking about rights.You would surely meet your judgement on the day of judgement.

This is crazy and surely sings of the end times. see who are talking about rights.You would surely meet your judgement on the day of judgement.
CYNTHIA 12 years ago

NOW THE TRUTH IS OUT, SHAME!!!

NOW THE TRUTH IS OUT, SHAME!!!
Grace 12 years ago

Mahama your cup wii soon be full, God is watching you

Mahama your cup wii soon be full, God is watching you
Pressman, 12 years ago

God cannot be deceived, John, the apostate, the wall surrounding your hypocrisy and double talk is broken by your gay pal. Over to you, John, the liar.

God cannot be deceived, John, the apostate, the wall surrounding your hypocrisy and double talk is broken by your gay pal. Over to you, John, the liar.
ghanaba 12 years ago

and so what, in africa our gates are widely open to any thing. seize the opportunity now before it is too late another time.

and so what, in africa our gates are widely open to any thing. seize the opportunity now before it is too late another time.
DON 12 years ago

YOU HAVE HEARD IT ALL FROM THE HORSES ON MOUTH , SHA SHA SHA SHAMEEEE! JM NO SIZE.

YOU HAVE HEARD IT ALL FROM THE HORSES ON MOUTH , SHA SHA SHA SHAMEEEE! JM NO SIZE.
Kissident 12 years ago

Fuck all those who wrote you about their lifestyles here in Ghana. They can go ahead and commit the suicide. We dont need the legalisation of gay rights in Ghana. If they do, we shall kill them on sight. even our law enforcem ...
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Fuck all those who wrote you about their lifestyles here in Ghana. They can go ahead and commit the suicide. We dont need the legalisation of gay rights in Ghana. If they do, we shall kill them on sight. even our law enforcement officials are against it. Since Mahama was made president nothing good has come to Ghana. Black stars disgracing us as an economy and a whole lot. May the thunder of God strike any leader who attempt to destroy the reputation we have built in the Lord. Gays are demons in the physical. they are bound to hell. That is for real.
ROCKY 12 years ago

I'm sure the ndc people have read this, most especially the Ewe trokosi murderers. This silly notherner called Mahama is visiting the wrath of God upon our beloved country Ghana by mingling and seeking favour from people of s ...
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I'm sure the ndc people have read this, most especially the Ewe trokosi murderers. This silly notherner called Mahama is visiting the wrath of God upon our beloved country Ghana by mingling and seeking favour from people of such doomed character. Until these people are thrown out of power, this country will not know peace and everything would be turned upside down including even our football. Heavenly Father, it is my prayer that which ever curse that will visit this nation through homosexuality be directed towards the president, his family and his homosexual allies forever and ever! Amen!!!
frank white 12 years ago

I can't seem to understand why people seem to ignore common sense which should tell you that man and man can't marry,so if some stupid fucks like that God forsaken Andrew solomon are up to doing this taboo why should that be ...
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I can't seem to understand why people seem to ignore common sense which should tell you that man and man can't marry,so if some stupid fucks like that God forsaken Andrew solomon are up to doing this taboo why should that be a border to us and the so called hypocrite president mingles with such people under the guise of "rights" since when was some one killed for being a gay or lesbian,they already enjoy their rights so for that frog-like oye lithur to say she will protect them was u called for but because they have an agenda to
pursue by wanting to legalize the insanity thus why these stupid fucks are preparing the grounds with "rights"of gays.And to the amoafo yeboah the most stupid man on earth,how do you say you will support any gay group with your money,will you be alive to day if your dad decide to fuck a man's anus.Ghanaians should pray because john mahama is a curse to us..
Baraa 12 years ago

Hi Solo what about going to Texas USA Pls tell them to amend their books on homo b4 going to India, Ghana etc etc

Hi Solo what about going to Texas USA Pls tell them to amend their books on homo b4 going to India, Ghana etc etc
Baba Alhassan 12 years ago

MONEY AND POWER ARE NOT THE ALTIMATE BUT THE PEACE OF GOD IS MORE IMPORTANT.PRESIDENT MILLS DIED AND HE WON THE SYMPATHY OF ALL GHANAIANS. IF HIS DEATH WAS HIS DESTINY GOD SAVE HIS SOUL, BUT IF HIS DEATH WAS CAUSED BY PEOPLE ...
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MONEY AND POWER ARE NOT THE ALTIMATE BUT THE PEACE OF GOD IS MORE IMPORTANT.PRESIDENT MILLS DIED AND HE WON THE SYMPATHY OF ALL GHANAIANS. IF HIS DEATH WAS HIS DESTINY GOD SAVE HIS SOUL, BUT IF HIS DEATH WAS CAUSED BY PEOPLE WHO WERE SEEKING POWER AND MONEY WORSE THINGS WOULD HAPPEN TO THEM AND THEY WILL NOT ATTRACT SYMPATHY FROM ANYONE.
blackstar 12 years ago

What the hell is this mate so wrong!!!!!!

What the hell is this mate so wrong!!!!!!
Chabba 12 years ago

Homosexuality is evil and makes mockery of God.No matter how much they want people to believe,homosexuality is Satanic. Has anyone ever seen animal homosexuals? Yes, animals have no reasoning powers yet they don't involve the ...
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Homosexuality is evil and makes mockery of God.No matter how much they want people to believe,homosexuality is Satanic. Has anyone ever seen animal homosexuals? Yes, animals have no reasoning powers yet they don't involve themselves in homosexuality.Homosexuality is untenable b/c human beings have reasoning powers.Homosexuality is an aberration and abomination and needs to be condermed in no uncertain terms. If by saying this you call me names so be it!
TALK TALK 12 years ago

THIS WOULD NOT CHANGE ANYTHING,GHANA IS NOT A GAY COUNTRY AND THAT IS.

THIS WOULD NOT CHANGE ANYTHING,GHANA IS NOT A GAY COUNTRY AND THAT IS.
God's Wrath 12 years ago

we are warned

we are warned
Yaw Adu-Asare 12 years ago

Andrew Solomon's piety does nothing to ameliorate the so called deplorable situation of people in Africa.

Andrew should leave Africans alone!

Most African cultures deplore homosexualism and find the practice reprehensib ...
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Andrew Solomon's piety does nothing to ameliorate the so called deplorable situation of people in Africa.

Andrew should leave Africans alone!

Most African cultures deplore homosexualism and find the practice reprehensible.

Keep coming, Andrw
TROUBLE-MAKER 12 years ago

I hope that President Mahama will seize this occasion to take a leadership role in the region on L.G.B.T. rights.
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Mahama will do no such thing and I bet no African leader would.Stay in you ...
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I hope that President Mahama will seize this occasion to take a leadership role in the region on L.G.B.T. rights.
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Mahama will do no such thing and I bet no African leader would.Stay in your America and carry on bonking your fellow man`s shit-hole and leave us alone.
Better still,why don`t you relocate all the Ghanaian FAGGOTS to the US where they will be comfortable?
Gye Nyame 12 years ago

Mahama is already in "bed" with this guy so what are you talking about? Do you think they invited him to their party and promoted his book for nothing. Even Solomon alludes to Mahama's double talk "and the double talk from th ...
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Mahama is already in "bed" with this guy so what are you talking about? Do you think they invited him to their party and promoted his book for nothing. Even Solomon alludes to Mahama's double talk "and the double talk from the Ghanaian administration has done little to assuage valid concerns".
TROUBLE-MAKER 12 years ago

Are you one of them?You seem to know so much.

"Do you think they invited him to their party and promoted his book for nothing."
What are you insinuating?

Are you one of them?You seem to know so much.

"Do you think they invited him to their party and promoted his book for nothing."
What are you insinuating?
Gye Nyame 12 years ago

I am getting all my info from what I read on NY Times which is what Solomon wrote. I am not insinuating anything, my point is Solomon helped Mahama so he could also help them on the Ghana side of the LGBT issue. You don't ha ...
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I am getting all my info from what I read on NY Times which is what Solomon wrote. I am not insinuating anything, my point is Solomon helped Mahama so he could also help them on the Ghana side of the LGBT issue. You don't have to be gay to see through what is happening here. Some of you are too partisan to even be objective on issues.
murphy 12 years ago

never never and never should i vote for disrespectful man like mahama. you will died for promoting evil in ghana mahama.
NPP must give us better candidate than NANA TO TAKE OVER THE PRESIDENT. FOOLISH MAHAMA

never never and never should i vote for disrespectful man like mahama. you will died for promoting evil in ghana mahama.
NPP must give us better candidate than NANA TO TAKE OVER THE PRESIDENT. FOOLISH MAHAMA
National ditrumu congress 12 years ago

National Ditrumu congress. Tofiakwa, gay man mahama.

National Ditrumu congress. Tofiakwa, gay man mahama.
Appletus 12 years ago

If we agree that culture varies, then this gay issue is even problematic for Africans. Some nations welcome it as a right and forging ahead to pave way for gays to enjoy their rights. But in some other countries, the fundamen ...
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If we agree that culture varies, then this gay issue is even problematic for Africans. Some nations welcome it as a right and forging ahead to pave way for gays to enjoy their rights. But in some other countries, the fundamental law of the land frowns on it. In fact, it is even criminal in some nations per their constitutions.
What needs to be done will be like a beginning of a six year old going to school. There is a lot to be done regarding conscientiousness to eliminate stigmatization. Where does it begin? It might even end up in a ban completely.
Nana USA 12 years ago

GhanaWeb need better editors not concert party editor.. nonsense dumb ass...

GhanaWeb need better editors not concert party editor.. nonsense dumb ass...
INJECTION THE BAHAMAS 12 years ago

WHY WILL PEOPLE TRY SOO HARD TO DISGRACE THIS MAN?? WHY??ALL THIS LIES ,IS THAT PART OF THE PLAN TO WIN THE COURT CASE OR JUST A DIRTY LIES

WHY WILL PEOPLE TRY SOO HARD TO DISGRACE THIS MAN?? WHY??ALL THIS LIES ,IS THAT PART OF THE PLAN TO WIN THE COURT CASE OR JUST A DIRTY LIES
Better Editor's 12 years ago

They should take their stupid asshole and underground politician from GhanaWeb and make more sense the nonsense stories.

They should take their stupid asshole and underground politician from GhanaWeb and make more sense the nonsense stories.
murphy 12 years ago

MAHAMA MUST FUCK AMISSAH ARTHUR ASS AND LORDINA MUST LICK OYE LITHUR TOTO. FUCK SOLOMON FUCK U MAHAMA FUCK U ALL GHANA GAYS U WILL GO TO HELL

MAHAMA MUST FUCK AMISSAH ARTHUR ASS AND LORDINA MUST LICK OYE LITHUR TOTO. FUCK SOLOMON FUCK U MAHAMA FUCK U ALL GHANA GAYS U WILL GO TO HELL
mahama 12 years ago

Sodom and Gomoria, God punished them because gay practices is a devil acts. God hate gay practices. If gay need rights ask that permission from God but not from humanities, God made man and woman to marry and multiple, why to ...
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Sodom and Gomoria, God punished them because gay practices is a devil acts. God hate gay practices. If gay need rights ask that permission from God but not from humanities, God made man and woman to marry and multiple, why to be a gay? If mahamma is gay that his personal but can't drag the entire nation to that bad act.
Atsu 12 years ago

CENSORHIP & THE CULTURE OF SILENCE!!!!!!!!

DEMOCRACY, YAMUTU!!

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION, YAMUTU!

Here is the original story which was deleted under the orders of the P/NDC and dramai mahama.

CENSORSHIP IS ON DISPLAY ...
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CENSORHIP & THE CULTURE OF SILENCE!!!!!!!!

DEMOCRACY, YAMUTU!!

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION, YAMUTU!

Here is the original story which was deleted under the orders of the P/NDC and dramai mahama.

CENSORSHIP IS ON DISPLAY.

FREEDOM OF THE PRESS, YAMUTU!

DEMOCRACY, YAMUTU!

Mahamah`s Pal writes. In Bed with the President of Ghana?

WHEN my husband-to-be and I met the Ghanaian politician John Dramani Mahama at a friend’s wedding near Accra eight years ago, I liked him immediately. I kept up with his fortunes mostly through mutual friends, and I was happy to learn in 2009 that he had been elected his nation’s vice president.

When I read a draft of his trenchant memoir, “My First Coup d’État,” in 2010, I offered to introduce him to some agents and editors in New York. Many people in the developed world expect African heads of state to be either terse and political or bloated and ideological. The surprise of John Mahama’s book is its tender humanism, and I thought it would go a long way toward breaking down prejudice in the United States.

I blurbed the book when it was published last July; I hosted a party to celebrate its publication; I conducted an onstage interview with John Mahama at the New York Public Library and I am thanked in the book’s acknowledgments.

Soon after, the Ghanaian president, John Atta Mills, died and John Mahama stepped into the presidency; in December, he was elected to another term. Two weeks ago, the Ghanaian press suddenly exploded with references to Mr. Mahama’s relationship with me.

“President John Dramani Mahama has been fingered to be in bed with one Mr. Andrew Solomon, a gay lobbyist,” blared one unfortunately worded report. Another announced, “Andrew Solomon reportedly gathered a few affluent people from the gay community to raise campaign funds for President Mahama with the understanding that when President Mahama won the elections, the president would push the gay rights agenda.” I was reported to have paid $20,000 for copies of the book.

The occasion of these revelations was Mr. Mahama’s appointment of what one newspaper called the “fiery human and gay rights advocate, Nana Oye Lithur” to head the newly established Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection. In confirmation hearings before a parliamentary committee, Ms. Lithur averred that “the rights of everybody, including homosexuals, should be protected,” thus invoking a firestorm. I was presumed to have pushed through her nomination, even though I had in fact never heard of her. The argument that Ms. Lithur was selected not for her formidable skills, but because of a foreign devil fit with the continuing position among some Africans that homosexuality is an import from the decadent West.

I have neither the ability nor the inclination to meddle in foreign elections, and I paid not one red cent for the book John Mahama inscribed to me. The only way I may have influenced him on gay rights was by welcoming him into the household of a joyful family with two dads. It is deeply unsettling to be implicated in a national scandal, to know that my attempts to be kind and helpful to someone would become his millstone.

On Friday, Feb. 1, the president’s spokesman said that President Mahama didn’t know me. On Saturday, the president called me to apologize. On Sunday, the government issued a statement that Mr. Mahama and I know each other, that I have never made a campaign contribution or persuaded anyone else to do so, and that President Mahama “does not subscribe to homosexualism and will not take any step to promote homosexualism in Ghana.” I am not sure what is involved in promoting homosexualism, but I am pleased to know that a cordial friendship with me does not constitute such an act.

The situation of gay people in most of Africa is deplorable, and the double talk from the Ghanaian administration has done little to assuage valid concerns. In the wake of this brouhaha, I have received hundreds of letters from Ghanaians via my Web site and Facebook. Half are from gay people about how dire their situation is. One said, “I am tired of this humiliation and embarrassment. I don’t know whether I am a gay. I am not a living being. I have tried to pretend to be what they wanted. I need your word of advice and help. Sorry to say I feel like committing suicide. My tears are dropping so badly that I have to end my e-mail here.”

But the other half are from straight allies, of whom there appear to be legions. One woman complained, “Men are deceiving me too much, so I want to join your LGBT please.” My favorite was, “I wish God has blessed me like you. I am not a gay but I respect and love so so much. May you live to always help mankind.”

By curious coincidence, this whole matter has unfolded while I am in India promoting a book that deals in large part with how any condition may go from being perceived as an illness to being lived as an identity. It draws on my experience of such a transition for gay people in the United States. When I first visited India, some 20 years ago, the only clearly gay people were destitute and marginalized. On my second trip, in the late 1990s, I met a subculture of rather soigné gay people, but their faces flushed whenever the thing we had in common was acknowledged. At the Jaipur Literature Festival last month, the “gay panel” attracted more than a thousand people who complained of the hideous prejudice they faced in India — but who were emboldened to object publicly to the problem in a tone that anticipated its ultimate resolution.

In Ghana, the articles that attacked President Mahama for knowing me referenced “the raging national debate on gay and lesbian rights” in Ghana. That there is such a debate — even if it’s a debate about whether to lynch us — is meaningful progress. The fact that local propagandists can plausibly suggest that the president of a West African country is in the hands of gay lobbyists reflects a changing world. I hope that President Mahama will seize this occasion to take a leadership role in the region on L.G.B.T. rights. The fact that so many people from his country wrote to me when the scandal broke indicates that many are thinking through these issues. I hope the time is not far off when to know someone like me will be less of a liability and more of an asset.

Andrew Solomon is the author, most recently, of “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity.”

~ New York Times
Atsu 12 years ago

CENSORHIP & THE CULTURE OF SILENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DEMOCRACY, YAMUTU!!

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION, YAMUTU!

Here is the original story which was deleted under the orders of the P/NDC and dramai mahama.

CENSORSHIP IS ON DI ...
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CENSORHIP & THE CULTURE OF SILENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DEMOCRACY, YAMUTU!!

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION, YAMUTU!

Here is the original story which was deleted under the orders of the P/NDC and dramai mahama.

CENSORSHIP IS ON DISPLAY.

FREEDOM OF THE PRESS, YAMUTU!

DEMOCRACY, YAMUTU!

Mahamah`s Pal writes. In Bed with the President of Ghana?

WHEN my husband-to-be and I met the Ghanaian politician John Dramani Mahama at a friend’s wedding near Accra eight years ago, I liked him immediately. I kept up with his fortunes mostly through mutual friends, and I was happy to learn in 2009 that he had been elected his nation’s vice president.

When I read a draft of his trenchant memoir, “My First Coup d’État,” in 2010, I offered to introduce him to some agents and editors in New York. Many people in the developed world expect African heads of state to be either terse and political or bloated and ideological. The surprise of John Mahama’s book is its tender humanism, and I thought it would go a long way toward breaking down prejudice in the United States.

I blurbed the book when it was published last July; I hosted a party to celebrate its publication; I conducted an onstage interview with John Mahama at the New York Public Library and I am thanked in the book’s acknowledgments.

Soon after, the Ghanaian president, John Atta Mills, died and John Mahama stepped into the presidency; in December, he was elected to another term. Two weeks ago, the Ghanaian press suddenly exploded with references to Mr. Mahama’s relationship with me.

“President John Dramani Mahama has been fingered to be in bed with one Mr. Andrew Solomon, a gay lobbyist,” blared one unfortunately worded report. Another announced, “Andrew Solomon reportedly gathered a few affluent people from the gay community to raise campaign funds for President Mahama with the understanding that when President Mahama won the elections, the president would push the gay rights agenda.” I was reported to have paid $20,000 for copies of the book.

The occasion of these revelations was Mr. Mahama’s appointment of what one newspaper called the “fiery human and gay rights advocate, Nana Oye Lithur” to head the newly established Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection. In confirmation hearings before a parliamentary committee, Ms. Lithur averred that “the rights of everybody, including homosexuals, should be protected,” thus invoking a firestorm. I was presumed to have pushed through her nomination, even though I had in fact never heard of her. The argument that Ms. Lithur was selected not for her formidable skills, but because of a foreign devil fit with the continuing position among some Africans that homosexuality is an import from the decadent West.

I have neither the ability nor the inclination to meddle in foreign elections, and I paid not one red cent for the book John Mahama inscribed to me. The only way I may have influenced him on gay rights was by welcoming him into the household of a joyful family with two dads. It is deeply unsettling to be implicated in a national scandal, to know that my attempts to be kind and helpful to someone would become his millstone.

On Friday, Feb. 1, the president’s spokesman said that President Mahama didn’t know me. On Saturday, the president called me to apologize. On Sunday, the government issued a statement that Mr. Mahama and I know each other, that I have never made a campaign contribution or persuaded anyone else to do so, and that President Mahama “does not subscribe to homosexualism and will not take any step to promote homosexualism in Ghana.” I am not sure what is involved in promoting homosexualism, but I am pleased to know that a cordial friendship with me does not constitute such an act.

The situation of gay people in most of Africa is deplorable, and the double talk from the Ghanaian administration has done little to assuage valid concerns. In the wake of this brouhaha, I have received hundreds of letters from Ghanaians via my Web site and Facebook. Half are from gay people about how dire their situation is. One said, “I am tired of this humiliation and embarrassment. I don’t know whether I am a gay. I am not a living being. I have tried to pretend to be what they wanted. I need your word of advice and help. Sorry to say I feel like committing suicide. My tears are dropping so badly that I have to end my e-mail here.”

But the other half are from straight allies, of whom there appear to be legions. One woman complained, “Men are deceiving me too much, so I want to join your LGBT please.” My favorite was, “I wish God has blessed me like you. I am not a gay but I respect and love so so much. May you live to always help mankind.”

By curious coincidence, this whole matter has unfolded while I am in India promoting a book that deals in large part with how any condition may go from being perceived as an illness to being lived as an identity. It draws on my experience of such a transition for gay people in the United States. When I first visited India, some 20 years ago, the only clearly gay people were destitute and marginalized. On my second trip, in the late 1990s, I met a subculture of rather soigné gay people, but their faces flushed whenever the thing we had in common was acknowledged. At the Jaipur Literature Festival last month, the “gay panel” attracted more than a thousand people who complained of the hideous prejudice they faced in India — but who were emboldened to object publicly to the problem in a tone that anticipated its ultimate resolution.

In Ghana, the articles that attacked President Mahama for knowing me referenced “the raging national debate on gay and lesbian rights” in Ghana. That there is such a debate — even if it’s a debate about whether to lynch us — is meaningful progress. The fact that local propagandists can plausibly suggest that the president of a West African country is in the hands of gay lobbyists reflects a changing world. I hope that President Mahama will seize this occasion to take a leadership role in the region on L.G.B.T. rights. The fact that so many people from his country wrote to me when the scandal broke indicates that many are thinking through these issues. I hope the time is not far off when to know someone like me will be less of a liability and more of an asset.

Andrew Solomon is the author, most recently, of “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity.”

~ New York Times
Atsu 12 years ago

CENSORHIP & THE CULTURE OF SILENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DEMOCRACY, YAMUTU!!

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION, YAMUTU!

Here is the original story which was deleted under the orders of the P/NDC and dramai mahama.

CENSORSHIP IS ON ...
read full comment

CENSORHIP & THE CULTURE OF SILENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DEMOCRACY, YAMUTU!!

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION, YAMUTU!

Here is the original story which was deleted under the orders of the P/NDC and dramai mahama.

CENSORSHIP IS ON DISPLAY.

FREEDOM OF THE PRESS, YAMUTU!

DEMOCRACY, YAMUTU!

Mahamah`s Pal writes. In Bed with the President of Ghana?

WHEN my husband-to-be and I met the Ghanaian politician John Dramani Mahama at a friend’s wedding near Accra eight years ago, I liked him immediately. I kept up with his fortunes mostly through mutual friends, and I was happy to learn in 2009 that he had been elected his nation’s vice president.

When I read a draft of his trenchant memoir, “My First Coup d’État,” in 2010, I offered to introduce him to some agents and editors in New York. Many people in the developed world expect African heads of state to be either terse and political or bloated and ideological. The surprise of John Mahama’s book is its tender humanism, and I thought it would go a long way toward breaking down prejudice in the United States.

I blurbed the book when it was published last July; I hosted a party to celebrate its publication; I conducted an onstage interview with John Mahama at the New York Public Library and I am thanked in the book’s acknowledgments.

Soon after, the Ghanaian president, John Atta Mills, died and John Mahama stepped into the presidency; in December, he was elected to another term. Two weeks ago, the Ghanaian press suddenly exploded with references to Mr. Mahama’s relationship with me.

“President John Dramani Mahama has been fingered to be in bed with one Mr. Andrew Solomon, a gay lobbyist,” blared one unfortunately worded report. Another announced, “Andrew Solomon reportedly gathered a few affluent people from the gay community to raise campaign funds for President Mahama with the understanding that when President Mahama won the elections, the president would push the gay rights agenda.” I was reported to have paid $20,000 for copies of the book.

The occasion of these revelations was Mr. Mahama’s appointment of what one newspaper called the “fiery human and gay rights advocate, Nana Oye Lithur” to head the newly established Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection. In confirmation hearings before a parliamentary committee, Ms. Lithur averred that “the rights of everybody, including homosexuals, should be protected,” thus invoking a firestorm. I was presumed to have pushed through her nomination, even though I had in fact never heard of her. The argument that Ms. Lithur was selected not for her formidable skills, but because of a foreign devil fit with the continuing position among some Africans that homosexuality is an import from the decadent West.

I have neither the ability nor the inclination to meddle in foreign elections, and I paid not one red cent for the book John Mahama inscribed to me. The only way I may have influenced him on gay rights was by welcoming him into the household of a joyful family with two dads. It is deeply unsettling to be implicated in a national scandal, to know that my attempts to be kind and helpful to someone would become his millstone.

On Friday, Feb. 1, the president’s spokesman said that President Mahama didn’t know me. On Saturday, the president called me to apologize. On Sunday, the government issued a statement that Mr. Mahama and I know each other, that I have never made a campaign contribution or persuaded anyone else to do so, and that President Mahama “does not subscribe to homosexualism and will not take any step to promote homosexualism in Ghana.” I am not sure what is involved in promoting homosexualism, but I am pleased to know that a cordial friendship with me does not constitute such an act.

The situation of gay people in most of Africa is deplorable, and the double talk from the Ghanaian administration has done little to assuage valid concerns. In the wake of this brouhaha, I have received hundreds of letters from Ghanaians via my Web site and Facebook. Half are from gay people about how dire their situation is. One said, “I am tired of this humiliation and embarrassment. I don’t know whether I am a gay. I am not a living being. I have tried to pretend to be what they wanted. I need your word of advice and help. Sorry to say I feel like committing suicide. My tears are dropping so badly that I have to end my e-mail here.”

But the other half are from straight allies, of whom there appear to be legions. One woman complained, “Men are deceiving me too much, so I want to join your LGBT please.” My favorite was, “I wish God has blessed me like you. I am not a gay but I respect and love so so much. May you live to always help mankind.”

By curious coincidence, this whole matter has unfolded while I am in India promoting a book that deals in large part with how any condition may go from being perceived as an illness to being lived as an identity. It draws on my experience of such a transition for gay people in the United States. When I first visited India, some 20 years ago, the only clearly gay people were destitute and marginalized. On my second trip, in the late 1990s, I met a subculture of rather soigné gay people, but their faces flushed whenever the thing we had in common was acknowledged. At the Jaipur Literature Festival last month, the “gay panel” attracted more than a thousand people who complained of the hideous prejudice they faced in India — but who were emboldened to object publicly to the problem in a tone that anticipated its ultimate resolution.

In Ghana, the articles that attacked President Mahama for knowing me referenced “the raging national debate on gay and lesbian rights” in Ghana. That there is such a debate — even if it’s a debate about whether to lynch us — is meaningful progress. The fact that local propagandists can plausibly suggest that the president of a West African country is in the hands of gay lobbyists reflects a changing world. I hope that President Mahama will seize this occasion to take a leadership role in the region on L.G.B.T. rights. The fact that so many people from his country wrote to me when the scandal broke indicates that many are thinking through these issues. I hope the time is not far off when to know someone like me will be less of a liability and more of an asset.

Andrew Solomon is the author, most recently, of “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity.”

~ New York Times
MUNGO PARK 12 years ago

THE SIGNIFYING GAY MONKEY…
Your piece is not only hypocritical but insidious. The Western world engagement with Africa had been one of abused from the era of slave trade (African young males were raped from the African sh ...
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THE SIGNIFYING GAY MONKEY…
Your piece is not only hypocritical but insidious. The Western world engagement with Africa had been one of abused from the era of slave trade (African young males were raped from the African shores right through onto the plantations) to the contemporary. The notion of so-called HUMAN RIGHTS was conceptually an impossibility to be conceived by the Europeans then during the SLAVE TRADE. We are still experiencing its effect 600 hundred years ago. The universalization of cultural practices of so-called superior race (Aryan) Whites has been a construct for which the lesser human race according to your standpoint must subscribe, however subtle is it coated (aid, food, loans for liberalization of homosexuality in Africa),with human rights as cardinal reason.
Homosexuality is a European cultural practices and since its practiced by human beings, any human being under enabling conditions can become susceptible it. Many Africans see the posturing of the West in relation to homosexuality as an attempt to impose this abnormal practice on us or least adopt a liberal attitude which in time will be accepted or tolerated. Your India example is instructive. Africa has its own negative cultural practices, and homosexuality is not one of them, at least not one of the originals. Perhaps there is context of counter-HUMAN-rights, which clearly is missing in the imposition of homosexuality in Africa even if it’s virtual debate. The right to not be the other is missing. Africans have the right not to be your other.
Homosexuality has its origins in Greece, the epicenter of the so-called European civilization. When Greeks went to ancient Egypt (Africa) to study they were informed of the cardinal African principle that defines our world MALE & FEMALE, principle that must be in balance. Nowhere was homosexuality encouraged. That is not to infer that the Ancient Africans were unaware of possibility of this abnormal sexual condition (from an African perspective and by no means a universal one). Indeed the West with all its scientific development has refused to conduct research into homosexuality to ascertain whether it’s hormonal or otherwise imbalance. You may draw the conclusion.

In Greece homosexual love for boys was not only aristocratic phenomenon but popular, in 507 BCE, democracy was introduced in Athens there was increase of pederasty and other homosexual representations, it became more popular.
It should be added that for Plato, the only type of real love is the love between two men, and he has dedicated two of his dialogues to that subject: the Symposium and the Phaedrus. After all, homo-erotic love is related to education and gaining knowledge and this makes it superior to other types of love. In 399 BCE, Socrates was executed on a charge of corrupting the Athenian youth. There was no Athenian law that said that people who taught bad ideas to young people ought to be killed. Socrates cannot have been guilty of breaking any written law. The "corruption of the youth" as a sexual corruption: they took literally Socrates' metaphor that he loved boys, and this was indeed breaking the old law of 450 (above) that forbade young citizens to sell themselves. (male prostitution not consenting adults gay men), Socrates was held responsible for inducing boys to prostitution and WAS EXECUTED!
´The fact that local propagandists can plausibly suggest that the president of a West African country is in the hands of gay lobbyists reflects a changing world. ´
It does not suggest nor reflect a changing world! IT AFFIRMS IT! West African (African) presidents know where power lies, having failed to realize that in unity lies strength. America’s superpower statue was predicated on being a United States of America. Millions died in American civil War, including sons and daughters of Africa. The truth is that African Presidents with all the pomp and pageantry are helpless. We know the score and what time it is.
´ I hope that President Mahama will seize this occasion to take a leadership role in the region on L.G.B.T. rights. ´
This was out of the bag , all this whiles, now you have made it clearer. Your assertion typifies, Western/European arrogance, in much the same way as the early European missionaries to Africa to covert us into the true God. Come see how confused we now! Some of us don’t know whether we are worshipping God, You or Jesus. !
It not surprising therefore that many:” The fact that so many people from his country wrote to me when the scandal broke indicates that many are thinking through these issues. And: One said, “I am tired of this humiliation and embarrassment. I don’t know whether I am a gay. I am not a living being. I have tried to pretend to be what they wanted. I need your word of advice and help. Sorry to say I feel like committing suicide. My tears are dropping so badly that I have to end my e-mail here.”

Many Africans committed suicide than be captured by European and their African collaborates into slavery. It’s not a new phenomenon. Suicide.
Only that we have more of economic gays/Lesbos, in Africa, than so called born gays!! A hungry Ghanaian young man/ woman with no hope of any future, no jobs! and easy access to internet (50 cent any hour) is a WILLING GAY/LESBAIN than ANGRY!
The poverty degrades. The failure of our political leadership makes possible the
Softening of moral fabric of the youth and culture terrain. We are suffering from AQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENY SYDROME, (AIDS) of which you, as gay activist may be too familiar with! Ofcourse you well appreciate the pun or the point being made. There is an inter-connectedness between African/ Ghanaian economic gays and poverty.

The West must respect the right of other cultures to be what they are and NOT assert its cultural sexual preference under the pretext of human rights. Were there nuclear weapons in Iran after the carnage and pain inflicted on innocent lives? Africa at this point is weak and as the African proverb goes ”if your hand is in someone’s mouth, you don’t hit on his head”.

Africa is weak and saddle with bankrupt leadership, lacking the vision and courage to lift us from our abject poverty. YOU NEED NOT WORRY, all you need is time, for Africa in this condition cannot defend itself culturally or otherwise. SHE IS LIKE A WOMAN BEING RAPED BY HER OUTSIDERS AS WELL AS HER OWN SONS AND MAY ADD DAUGHTERS.

Her own sons and daughters are more of an asset to your cause than YOURSELF.
Oko 12 years ago

Wonderful piece of writing, and i have never thought about the Socrates angle of corrupting the society. More of such writings. Very educative!

Wonderful piece of writing, and i have never thought about the Socrates angle of corrupting the society. More of such writings. Very educative!
GHANAFUO 12 years ago

YOU HAVE CHARISMA !

YOU HAVE CHARISMA !
Nana Baffour Wiredu 12 years ago

Very educative and interesting piece. such articles, will help us better address the subject and education on this subject will help us address it more than the heartless anger been used to describe victims. we have also triv ...
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Very educative and interesting piece. such articles, will help us better address the subject and education on this subject will help us address it more than the heartless anger been used to describe victims. we have also trivialized the subject by sounding religious than we are. i know of an adulterer and a fornicator who condemn those engaging in this practice. if we are to tackle the subject on the bases of faith then we as Christians dont have a point at all. the Bible in commenting on gay-ism doesn't abhor it because it involves having sex through the anus, which makes it look and sound disgusting. its about it been an aberration and a deviation from the norm. those quoting leviticus shouldnt forget that somewhere within leviticus we are admonished not to eat crabs, snails, pork, rabbit and so on.

if we are fighting gay-ism because its a sin, then we might as well fight all sins, which includes gossiping, anger, stealing, insults and so on. i am not so much into faith issues but one thing i beleive is that even those of us who are evolutionist, and dont ride on the back of religion, still think gay-ism is not a faith issue, its a mental issue that ought to be checked. researchers and physicians must spend time and money to find out the cause of this perversion and the way forward in addressing it. as an evolutionist, i come from the backdrop that to ascertain what is natural, what is normal and what is acceptable when it comes to such issues, we should first look at our forebears and by this i refer to animals. its obvious even for those of you religious fanatics, that animals predated human kind. in the bible we read that God created the chicken, got monkey and tortoise before making man (Adam). Procreation therefore is not divine but natural. a dog or goat doesnt court and wed before having sex. yet they never get confused as to which sex to appeal to. no dog will fuck another dog, neither have i seen a bitch sticking tis fingers in the ass of another bitch.

these have come about as a result of our ability to reason. if reasoning will lead us to such acts of perversion then, animals tend to be better and intelligent than us. to find out what is natural, lets look at animals, they have no cognitive function that helps them solve problems, i am sure chickens and pigs would have found a way to defend themselves a long time ago. they act as predicated by nature. unfortunately its our friends in the west who by all means and intent should know better who are engaging in such follies. they first brought us religion i.e. Christianity and now are throwing everything they thought us to the dogs. they even told us that sex was a sin. now not only can we have premarrital sex but sex between a man and a man. also please we seem to be only concerned with sex between two men, and find that of two woman ok, i guess we are more concerned with the anal act that the gender. its not proper for two men to lie together as man and woman, plain and simple.
mugu 12 years ago

dead face; look him/her;;

I don't even know

if your dad was fucking anus, will you be living and talking of vagina to vagina;

dead you are to creation

dead face; look him/her;;

I don't even know

if your dad was fucking anus, will you be living and talking of vagina to vagina;

dead you are to creation
Atsu 12 years ago

CENSORHIP & THE CULTURE OF SILENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DEMOCRACY, YAMUTU!!

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION, YAMUTU!

Here is the original story which was deleted under the orders of the P/NDC and dramai mahama.

CENSORSHIP IS O ...
read full comment

CENSORHIP & THE CULTURE OF SILENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DEMOCRACY, YAMUTU!!

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION, YAMUTU!

Here is the original story which was deleted under the orders of the P/NDC and dramai mahama.

CENSORSHIP IS ON DISPLAY.

FREEDOM OF THE PRESS, YAMUTU!

DEMOCRACY, YAMUTU!

Mahamah`s Pal writes. In Bed with the President of Ghana?

WHEN my husband-to-be and I met the Ghanaian politician John Dramani Mahama at a friend’s wedding near Accra eight years ago, I liked him immediately. I kept up with his fortunes mostly through mutual friends, and I was happy to learn in 2009 that he had been elected his nation’s vice president.

When I read a draft of his trenchant memoir, “My First Coup d’État,” in 2010, I offered to introduce him to some agents and editors in New York. Many people in the developed world expect African heads of state to be either terse and political or bloated and ideological. The surprise of John Mahama’s book is its tender humanism, and I thought it would go a long way toward breaking down prejudice in the United States.

I blurbed the book when it was published last July; I hosted a party to celebrate its publication; I conducted an onstage interview with John Mahama at the New York Public Library and I am thanked in the book’s acknowledgments.

Soon after, the Ghanaian president, John Atta Mills, died and John Mahama stepped into the presidency; in December, he was elected to another term. Two weeks ago, the Ghanaian press suddenly exploded with references to Mr. Mahama’s relationship with me.

“President John Dramani Mahama has been fingered to be in bed with one Mr. Andrew Solomon, a gay lobbyist,” blared one unfortunately worded report. Another announced, “Andrew Solomon reportedly gathered a few affluent people from the gay community to raise campaign funds for President Mahama with the understanding that when President Mahama won the elections, the president would push the gay rights agenda.” I was reported to have paid $20,000 for copies of the book.

The occasion of these revelations was Mr. Mahama’s appointment of what one newspaper called the “fiery human and gay rights advocate, Nana Oye Lithur” to head the newly established Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection. In confirmation hearings before a parliamentary committee, Ms. Lithur averred that “the rights of everybody, including homosexuals, should be protected,” thus invoking a firestorm. I was presumed to have pushed through her nomination, even though I had in fact never heard of her. The argument that Ms. Lithur was selected not for her formidable skills, but because of a foreign devil fit with the continuing position among some Africans that homosexuality is an import from the decadent West.

I have neither the ability nor the inclination to meddle in foreign elections, and I paid not one red cent for the book John Mahama inscribed to me. The only way I may have influenced him on gay rights was by welcoming him into the household of a joyful family with two dads. It is deeply unsettling to be implicated in a national scandal, to know that my attempts to be kind and helpful to someone would become his millstone.

On Friday, Feb. 1, the president’s spokesman said that President Mahama didn’t know me. On Saturday, the president called me to apologize. On Sunday, the government issued a statement that Mr. Mahama and I know each other, that I have never made a campaign contribution or persuaded anyone else to do so, and that President Mahama “does not subscribe to homosexualism and will not take any step to promote homosexualism in Ghana.” I am not sure what is involved in promoting homosexualism, but I am pleased to know that a cordial friendship with me does not constitute such an act.

The situation of gay people in most of Africa is deplorable, and the double talk from the Ghanaian administration has done little to assuage valid concerns. In the wake of this brouhaha, I have received hundreds of letters from Ghanaians via my Web site and Facebook. Half are from gay people about how dire their situation is. One said, “I am tired of this humiliation and embarrassment. I don’t know whether I am a gay. I am not a living being. I have tried to pretend to be what they wanted. I need your word of advice and help. Sorry to say I feel like committing suicide. My tears are dropping so badly that I have to end my e-mail here.”

But the other half are from straight allies, of whom there appear to be legions. One woman complained, “Men are deceiving me too much, so I want to join your LGBT please.” My favorite was, “I wish God has blessed me like you. I am not a gay but I respect and love so so much. May you live to always help mankind.”

By curious coincidence, this whole matter has unfolded while I am in India promoting a book that deals in large part with how any condition may go from being perceived as an illness to being lived as an identity. It draws on my experience of such a transition for gay people in the United States. When I first visited India, some 20 years ago, the only clearly gay people were destitute and marginalized. On my second trip, in the late 1990s, I met a subculture of rather soigné gay people, but their faces flushed whenever the thing we had in common was acknowledged. At the Jaipur Literature Festival last month, the “gay panel” attracted more than a thousand people who complained of the hideous prejudice they faced in India — but who were emboldened to object publicly to the problem in a tone that anticipated its ultimate resolution.

In Ghana, the articles that attacked President Mahama for knowing me referenced “the raging national debate on gay and lesbian rights” in Ghana. That there is such a debate — even if it’s a debate about whether to lynch us — is meaningful progress. The fact that local propagandists can plausibly suggest that the president of a West African country is in the hands of gay lobbyists reflects a changing world. I hope that President Mahama will seize this occasion to take a leadership role in the region on L.G.B.T. rights. The fact that so many people from his country wrote to me when the scandal broke indicates that many are thinking through these issues. I hope the time is not far off when to know someone like me will be less of a liability and more of an asset.

Andrew Solomon is the author, most recently, of “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity.”

~ New York Times
Dignity 12 years ago

This pervert makes me sick! Who does he think he is any way? Sitting there looking like a sissy. Please someone advise him to keep his lgbt nonsense to himself and stay out of matters Ghanaian.

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This pervert makes me sick! Who does he think he is any way? Sitting there looking like a sissy. Please someone advise him to keep his lgbt nonsense to himself and stay out of matters Ghanaian.

Homosexuality is a lie from the pit of hell and all who practice it will wind down right there!!! President Mahama should be ashamed if caught touching that person with a long pole. His sight alone is so despicable!!!
asem 12 years ago

Can somebody tell me what this man-woman or woman-man want sell in this article. i dont get anything point. for him/her to break prejuice---is neither here or there.he/she knew it help her gain an infuence one way or the othe ...
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Can somebody tell me what this man-woman or woman-man want sell in this article. i dont get anything point. for him/her to break prejuice---is neither here or there.he/she knew it help her gain an infuence one way or the other on the then or future administration to propagate his/her gayism in our society hence her/his extension of such gesture to mahama then.in their society they there is no free lunch. why was she/he offering such a lunch. The question is are they ready also for polygamy in their society? They just want to destroy common value as an african or this matter a ghanaian. the example he/she cited her article is hollow and porous. eg somebody is tied of men so want to emblem gayism. what is the garantee that taking such an option amount to happiness. is this activist telling us africans that he/she persuade all americans to emblace this society breaker concept called gay.until he/she should leave african and that matter alone , we know what is good for us not gayism.
Atsu 12 years ago

dramani is evil!!!!

CENSORHIP & THE CULTURE OF SILENCE!

DEMOCRACY, YAMUTU!!

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION, YAMUTU!

Here is the original story which was deleted under the orders of the P/NDC and dramai mahama.

CENSOR ...
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dramani is evil!!!!

CENSORHIP & THE CULTURE OF SILENCE!

DEMOCRACY, YAMUTU!!

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION, YAMUTU!

Here is the original story which was deleted under the orders of the P/NDC and dramai mahama.

CENSORSHIP IS ON DISPLAY.

FREEDOM OF THE PRESS, YAMUTU!

DEMOCRACY, YAMUTU!

Mahamah`s Pal writes. In Bed with the President of Ghana?

WHEN my husband-to-be and I met the Ghanaian politician John Dramani Mahama at a friend’s wedding near Accra eight years ago, I liked him immediately. I kept up with his fortunes mostly through mutual friends, and I was happy to learn in 2009 that he had been elected his nation’s vice president.

When I read a draft of his trenchant memoir, “My First Coup d’État,” in 2010, I offered to introduce him to some agents and editors in New York. Many people in the developed world expect African heads of state to be either terse and political or bloated and ideological. The surprise of John Mahama’s book is its tender humanism, and I thought it would go a long way toward breaking down prejudice in the United States.

I blurbed the book when it was published last July; I hosted a party to celebrate its publication; I conducted an onstage interview with John Mahama at the New York Public Library and I am thanked in the book’s acknowledgments.

Soon after, the Ghanaian president, John Atta Mills, died and John Mahama stepped into the presidency; in December, he was elected to another term. Two weeks ago, the Ghanaian press suddenly exploded with references to Mr. Mahama’s relationship with me.

“President John Dramani Mahama has been fingered to be in bed with one Mr. Andrew Solomon, a gay lobbyist,” blared one unfortunately worded report. Another announced, “Andrew Solomon reportedly gathered a few affluent people from the gay community to raise campaign funds for President Mahama with the understanding that when President Mahama won the elections, the president would push the gay rights agenda.” I was reported to have paid $20,000 for copies of the book.

The occasion of these revelations was Mr. Mahama’s appointment of what one newspaper called the “fiery human and gay rights advocate, Nana Oye Lithur” to head the newly established Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection. In confirmation hearings before a parliamentary committee, Ms. Lithur averred that “the rights of everybody, including homosexuals, should be protected,” thus invoking a firestorm. I was presumed to have pushed through her nomination, even though I had in fact never heard of her. The argument that Ms. Lithur was selected not for her formidable skills, but because of a foreign devil fit with the continuing position among some Africans that homosexuality is an import from the decadent West.

I have neither the ability nor the inclination to meddle in foreign elections, and I paid not one red cent for the book John Mahama inscribed to me. The only way I may have influenced him on gay rights was by welcoming him into the household of a joyful family with two dads. It is deeply unsettling to be implicated in a national scandal, to know that my attempts to be kind and helpful to someone would become his millstone.

On Friday, Feb. 1, the president’s spokesman said that President Mahama didn’t know me. On Saturday, the president called me to apologize. On Sunday, the government issued a statement that Mr. Mahama and I know each other, that I have never made a campaign contribution or persuaded anyone else to do so, and that President Mahama “does not subscribe to homosexualism and will not take any step to promote homosexualism in Ghana.” I am not sure what is involved in promoting homosexualism, but I am pleased to know that a cordial friendship with me does not constitute such an act.

The situation of gay people in most of Africa is deplorable, and the double talk from the Ghanaian administration has done little to assuage valid concerns. In the wake of this brouhaha, I have received hundreds of letters from Ghanaians via my Web site and Facebook. Half are from gay people about how dire their situation is. One said, “I am tired of this humiliation and embarrassment. I don’t know whether I am a gay. I am not a living being. I have tried to pretend to be what they wanted. I need your word of advice and help. Sorry to say I feel like committing suicide. My tears are dropping so badly that I have to end my e-mail here.”

But the other half are from straight allies, of whom there appear to be legions. One woman complained, “Men are deceiving me too much, so I want to join your LGBT please.” My favorite was, “I wish God has blessed me like you. I am not a gay but I respect and love so so much. May you live to always help mankind.”

By curious coincidence, this whole matter has unfolded while I am in India promoting a book that deals in large part with how any condition may go from being perceived as an illness to being lived as an identity. It draws on my experience of such a transition for gay people in the United States. When I first visited India, some 20 years ago, the only clearly gay people were destitute and marginalized. On my second trip, in the late 1990s, I met a subculture of rather soigné gay people, but their faces flushed whenever the thing we had in common was acknowledged. At the Jaipur Literature Festival last month, the “gay panel” attracted more than a thousand people who complained of the hideous prejudice they faced in India — but who were emboldened to object publicly to the problem in a tone that anticipated its ultimate resolution.

In Ghana, the articles that attacked President Mahama for knowing me referenced “the raging national debate on gay and lesbian rights” in Ghana. That there is such a debate — even if it’s a debate about whether to lynch us — is meaningful progress. The fact that local propagandists can plausibly suggest that the president of a West African country is in the hands of gay lobbyists reflects a changing world. I hope that President Mahama will seize this occasion to take a leadership role in the region on L.G.B.T. rights. The fact that so many people from his country wrote to me when the scandal broke indicates that many are thinking through these issues. I hope the time is not far off when to know someone like me will be less of a liability and more of an asset.

Andrew Solomon is the author, most recently, of “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity.”

~ New York Times
Atsu 12 years ago

dramani is evil !!!!!!!!!

CENSORHIP & THE CULTURE OF SILENCE!

DEMOCRACY, YAMUTU!!

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION, YAMUTU!

Here is the original story which was deleted under the orders of the P/NDC and dramai mahama.

...
read full comment

dramani is evil !!!!!!!!!

CENSORHIP & THE CULTURE OF SILENCE!

DEMOCRACY, YAMUTU!!

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION, YAMUTU!

Here is the original story which was deleted under the orders of the P/NDC and dramai mahama.

CENSORSHIP IS ON DISPLAY.

FREEDOM OF THE PRESS, YAMUTU!

DEMOCRACY, YAMUTU!

Mahamah`s Pal writes. In Bed with the President of Ghana?

WHEN my husband-to-be and I met the Ghanaian politician John Dramani Mahama at a friend’s wedding near Accra eight years ago, I liked him immediately. I kept up with his fortunes mostly through mutual friends, and I was happy to learn in 2009 that he had been elected his nation’s vice president.

When I read a draft of his trenchant memoir, “My First Coup d’État,” in 2010, I offered to introduce him to some agents and editors in New York. Many people in the developed world expect African heads of state to be either terse and political or bloated and ideological. The surprise of John Mahama’s book is its tender humanism, and I thought it would go a long way toward breaking down prejudice in the United States.

I blurbed the book when it was published last July; I hosted a party to celebrate its publication; I conducted an onstage interview with John Mahama at the New York Public Library and I am thanked in the book’s acknowledgments.

Soon after, the Ghanaian president, John Atta Mills, died and John Mahama stepped into the presidency; in December, he was elected to another term. Two weeks ago, the Ghanaian press suddenly exploded with references to Mr. Mahama’s relationship with me.

“President John Dramani Mahama has been fingered to be in bed with one Mr. Andrew Solomon, a gay lobbyist,” blared one unfortunately worded report. Another announced, “Andrew Solomon reportedly gathered a few affluent people from the gay community to raise campaign funds for President Mahama with the understanding that when President Mahama won the elections, the president would push the gay rights agenda.” I was reported to have paid $20,000 for copies of the book.

The occasion of these revelations was Mr. Mahama’s appointment of what one newspaper called the “fiery human and gay rights advocate, Nana Oye Lithur” to head the newly established Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection. In confirmation hearings before a parliamentary committee, Ms. Lithur averred that “the rights of everybody, including homosexuals, should be protected,” thus invoking a firestorm. I was presumed to have pushed through her nomination, even though I had in fact never heard of her. The argument that Ms. Lithur was selected not for her formidable skills, but because of a foreign devil fit with the continuing position among some Africans that homosexuality is an import from the decadent West.

I have neither the ability nor the inclination to meddle in foreign elections, and I paid not one red cent for the book John Mahama inscribed to me. The only way I may have influenced him on gay rights was by welcoming him into the household of a joyful family with two dads. It is deeply unsettling to be implicated in a national scandal, to know that my attempts to be kind and helpful to someone would become his millstone.

On Friday, Feb. 1, the president’s spokesman said that President Mahama didn’t know me. On Saturday, the president called me to apologize. On Sunday, the government issued a statement that Mr. Mahama and I know each other, that I have never made a campaign contribution or persuaded anyone else to do so, and that President Mahama “does not subscribe to homosexualism and will not take any step to promote homosexualism in Ghana.” I am not sure what is involved in promoting homosexualism, but I am pleased to know that a cordial friendship with me does not constitute such an act.

The situation of gay people in most of Africa is deplorable, and the double talk from the Ghanaian administration has done little to assuage valid concerns. In the wake of this brouhaha, I have received hundreds of letters from Ghanaians via my Web site and Facebook. Half are from gay people about how dire their situation is. One said, “I am tired of this humiliation and embarrassment. I don’t know whether I am a gay. I am not a living being. I have tried to pretend to be what they wanted. I need your word of advice and help. Sorry to say I feel like committing suicide. My tears are dropping so badly that I have to end my e-mail here.”

But the other half are from straight allies, of whom there appear to be legions. One woman complained, “Men are deceiving me too much, so I want to join your LGBT please.” My favorite was, “I wish God has blessed me like you. I am not a gay but I respect and love so so much. May you live to always help mankind.”

By curious coincidence, this whole matter has unfolded while I am in India promoting a book that deals in large part with how any condition may go from being perceived as an illness to being lived as an identity. It draws on my experience of such a transition for gay people in the United States. When I first visited India, some 20 years ago, the only clearly gay people were destitute and marginalized. On my second trip, in the late 1990s, I met a subculture of rather soigné gay people, but their faces flushed whenever the thing we had in common was acknowledged. At the Jaipur Literature Festival last month, the “gay panel” attracted more than a thousand people who complained of the hideous prejudice they faced in India — but who were emboldened to object publicly to the problem in a tone that anticipated its ultimate resolution.

In Ghana, the articles that attacked President Mahama for knowing me referenced “the raging national debate on gay and lesbian rights” in Ghana. That there is such a debate — even if it’s a debate about whether to lynch us — is meaningful progress. The fact that local propagandists can plausibly suggest that the president of a West African country is in the hands of gay lobbyists reflects a changing world. I hope that President Mahama will seize this occasion to take a leadership role in the region on L.G.B.T. rights. The fact that so many people from his country wrote to me when the scandal broke indicates that many are thinking through these issues. I hope the time is not far off when to know someone like me will be less of a liability and more of an asset.

Andrew Solomon is the author, most recently, of “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity.”

~ New York Times
LOVE JOY 12 years ago

MAHAMA YOU ARE OFFICIAL TRUMU BUM BANDIT NO WONDER YOU CHOSE AMMISSAH THE NOTOTIOUS TRUMU BANDIT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MAHAMA YOU ARE OFFICIAL TRUMU BUM BANDIT NO WONDER YOU CHOSE AMMISSAH THE NOTOTIOUS TRUMU BANDIT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oko 12 years ago

Hahahahah Mahama loves both the front and backside. Interesting guy. Very potent indeed, thats why he had all them lil babies with different women. When it smells we go know and how far these gay guys, Mahama and his vice hav ...
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Hahahahah Mahama loves both the front and backside. Interesting guy. Very potent indeed, thats why he had all them lil babies with different women. When it smells we go know and how far these gay guys, Mahama and his vice have gone.
Dignity 12 years ago

Has the president not shame? Think about the indignity he brings the office by having a confused pervert as a friend. Yuck!

Has the president not shame? Think about the indignity he brings the office by having a confused pervert as a friend. Yuck!
7B 12 years ago

everyone knows that the stolen governance is a womaniser, his step down is the he gay, what bout the trash woman oye, the dyke and vamp, what else ndc crews are evil.

everyone knows that the stolen governance is a womaniser, his step down is the he gay, what bout the trash woman oye, the dyke and vamp, what else ndc crews are evil.
Kwabena in London 12 years ago

I hope the Reverend Fathers & Mothers who are homosexuals themselves and those homosexuals, some claiming to be Christians, all have Bibles and read them. Let them read all their various versions and check FROM ROMANS 1 VS 2 ...
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I hope the Reverend Fathers & Mothers who are homosexuals themselves and those homosexuals, some claiming to be Christians, all have Bibles and read them. Let them read all their various versions and check FROM ROMANS 1 VS 20-32 that God hates the practice of homosexuality.
william 12 years ago

H.E. John Mahama is President of and for all Ghanaians,female and male, 'straight' and 'gay', law-abiding and prisoners,north, south,east and west.All of them, of us, are human with inherent rights to be respected as creation ...
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H.E. John Mahama is President of and for all Ghanaians,female and male, 'straight' and 'gay', law-abiding and prisoners,north, south,east and west.All of them, of us, are human with inherent rights to be respected as creations of the Almighty. Then follows whether our conduct is recognised as acceptable or not. In Ghana the overwhelming majority do not approve of homosexuality. But this does not mean that if we discourage it we should shun the company of or condemn the individuals when they have not broken the law of 'no carnal knowledge between man and man. The one is the law until it is changed if at all.Many of us have friends or family who are gay and while we may not condone their way of life it would be morally criminal not to treat them as fellow humans deserving of respect as minority. They deserve constructive engagement and the Pastors should show leadership.You may or may not succeed in changing them.But at least we can educate our childern to choose to be straight and yet refrain from condemning others!The fact that this is being discussed in Ghana is a healthy sign to help us find the right balance in facing this issue hitherto swept under the carpet.
GAY'N'PROUD 12 years ago

we need more gays to move this country forward.

we need more gays to move this country forward.
GAY'N'PROUD 12 years ago

Thank you Mahama, I know you do like it in your ass, please make Ghana a gay state and let show Ghanaians where power lays.

Thank you Mahama, I know you do like it in your ass, please make Ghana a gay state and let show Ghanaians where power lays.
el-rahim 12 years ago

For all have sinned and fallen short of God's Glory.
Father 4gve ur children hmmmm! We're indeed living in a crazy world

For all have sinned and fallen short of God's Glory.
Father 4gve ur children hmmmm! We're indeed living in a crazy world
JK 12 years ago

We should'nt allow this Fulish Ediot to visit our beloved country again.

We should'nt allow this Fulish Ediot to visit our beloved country again.
diawuo dosty 12 years ago

No one is a saint on this earth and every sin too is a sin

No one is a saint on this earth and every sin too is a sin
HASSAN RASTA GERMANY 12 years ago

MONEY RITUALS SHOULD BETTER USE GAYS FOR THEIR SACRIFICES, THEY HAVE NO USE IN THE WORLD. KILL THEM

MONEY RITUALS SHOULD BETTER USE GAYS FOR THEIR SACRIFICES, THEY HAVE NO USE IN THE WORLD. KILL THEM
K and P 12 years ago

That is very Christian-like of you to say.

That is very Christian-like of you to say.
HASSAN RASTA GERMANY 12 years ago

WE DONT WANT ANY DISASTER FROM THE ALMIGHTY GOD. SO BETTER KILL GAYS TO SACRIFICE THE NATION

WE DONT WANT ANY DISASTER FROM THE ALMIGHTY GOD. SO BETTER KILL GAYS TO SACRIFICE THE NATION
kodom 12 years ago

ooops

ooops
Gentile 12 years ago

I am really baffled of the current development. The PREZ is aware that our customs and norms frowns on these practices. He shd take control and come out bold to let Ghanaians know what is going on. Mahama pls. don't drag the ...
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I am really baffled of the current development. The PREZ is aware that our customs and norms frowns on these practices. He shd take control and come out bold to let Ghanaians know what is going on. Mahama pls. don't drag the image of the country into mud.
Edward 12 years ago

This confirms the fears of Ghanaians. Truly cunny in his writing. No way for homosexuality in Ghana. Go to hell.

This confirms the fears of Ghanaians. Truly cunny in his writing. No way for homosexuality in Ghana. Go to hell.
ade 12 years ago

fools give us a break

fools give us a break
KOJO 12 years ago

I foreigner doesn't know what he is talking about.I he shd try even to visit our country and will be suprise that even his corpse will not be seen,no matter the security men around him.

I foreigner doesn't know what he is talking about.I he shd try even to visit our country and will be suprise that even his corpse will not be seen,no matter the security men around him.
Ghanaian 12 years ago

Is this also part of count my vote? when will these useless people lean common sense.I hate seeing people behaving as if they rear them.

Is this also part of count my vote? when will these useless people lean common sense.I hate seeing people behaving as if they rear them.
things falling in line 12 years ago

HEY BROTHERS LETS PREPARE TO KICK NDC OUT OF POWER.

HEY BROTHERS LETS PREPARE TO KICK NDC OUT OF POWER.
A Concern Citizen 12 years ago

Where is NDC government taking Ghana to HELL; how can our president sleep with another man,an ABOMINATION. If this is true your government will collapse over your head in JESUS NAME. AMEN.

Where is NDC government taking Ghana to HELL; how can our president sleep with another man,an ABOMINATION. If this is true your government will collapse over your head in JESUS NAME. AMEN.
Cantankerous 12 years ago

Mahama's association with this Solomon character must come as a deep disappointment to many Ghanaians who had almost elevated the president to the status of a saint. Mahama appears to have shown a singularly remarkable lack o ...
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Mahama's association with this Solomon character must come as a deep disappointment to many Ghanaians who had almost elevated the president to the status of a saint. Mahama appears to have shown a singularly remarkable lack of judgment in this matter. I really fear for the longevity of his tenure.At this rate he is highly unlikely to survive politically beyond 2016.No amount of generous infusions of cash by Mahama's purported gay or pro-gay friends will save him from the wrath of Ghanaians.I cannot simply believe that President Mahama failed to notice the massive outpouring of rage directed against David Cameron last year when he tried to persuade Ghanaians to adopt a more pro gay stance. For the first time we witnessed Ghanaians coming together as one man in their determination to resist a perversion being foisted on them.Why does Solomon not take his gay gospel to say Saudi Arabia a supposed "close Allie" of the West? Is it because just like his western forebears 60-70 years ago he thinks"Africans should be treated like children"?
A. KWASI 12 years ago

ALL DIE BE DIE, KILL EWES AND GA'S SLOGAN. THE PRESIDENT'S MERE INTERACTION WITH A HAPPY GO GAY, WHICH ONE OF THEM IS SERIOUS. IN ANY CASE, THE FACT THAT WE ENJOY MICHAEL JACKSON MUSIC DOES THAT MEAN THAT WE LIKE HIS BEHAVIO ...
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ALL DIE BE DIE, KILL EWES AND GA'S SLOGAN. THE PRESIDENT'S MERE INTERACTION WITH A HAPPY GO GAY, WHICH ONE OF THEM IS SERIOUS. IN ANY CASE, THE FACT THAT WE ENJOY MICHAEL JACKSON MUSIC DOES THAT MEAN THAT WE LIKE HIS BEHAVIOR.
Adams 12 years ago

who if some is gay. if he or she choice to gay or lesbi that is his or her way of life.

who if some is gay. if he or she choice to gay or lesbi that is his or her way of life.
TROUBLE-MAKER 12 years ago

What business has this faggot got to lecture us on parentage and the need for children?
This book is simply to promote adoption of children by homosexuals.The RATS shouldn`t be anywhere near children.

"Andrew Solomon cont ...
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What business has this faggot got to lecture us on parentage and the need for children?
This book is simply to promote adoption of children by homosexuals.The RATS shouldn`t be anywhere near children.

"Andrew Solomon continues to pursue his interest in human psychological travails that he has himself undergone. In "The Noonday Demon" (2002), he considered the emerging understandings of the Major Depressive Disorder that afflicted him. In "Far From the Tree," he explores the experience of parents having offspring who in one way or another present them with an unexpected set of problems—either neuropsychological impairments from birth or behavioral problems as they grow. This theme drew Mr. Solomon's attention because he is ever aware of how his emergent homosexuality during adolescence represented a serious challenge to his parents—a challenge that he believes they didn't handle well.

In successive chapters of this massive book he explores the experience of parents faced with deaf children, dwarfed children, children with Down syndrome, early infantile autism and schizophrenia, and children with behavioral problems, including those seeking to change their sex.

There is much to praise in "Far From the Tree." Mr. Solomon has found remarkable fonts of love and kindness in the mothers and fathers of children afflicted with severe problems, and he captures their lives in one touching anecdote after another. He also shows how reality shapes parental experiences in ways that often transform what had seemed, at first, a tragedy. He notes that many of the families he met "ended up grateful for experiences they would have done anything to avoid."

During his meetings with various families, Mr. Solomon strove to cultivate friendships, the better to explore the thoughts and feelings of parents when facing the impairments and attributes of their problem-besieged children. He explicitly relates their responses to what he remembers his parents doing and saying to him when they became aware of his homosexual predilections. This feature gives the book both a personal edge and a less than subtle political subtext. In the end, "Far From the Tree" is an exercise in identity politics.

Far From the Tree

By Andrew Solomon
(Scribner, 962 pages, $37.50)

In fact, Mr. Solomon presents all the difficulties facing parents—which run from the impairments of Down syndrome to demands for transgender treatments—as difficulties that involve addressing a child's "identity." In Mr. Solomon's pages, identity, one of the great weasel words of our day, mixes two distinct aspects of child rearing: a child's "needs" and "wants." Needs and wants being different, parents must handle them differently. But Mr. Solomon, viewing the world through the lens of identity, would have parents treat all wants as needs and so plays down the prudential duties of parenting.

Every infant immediately presents parents with pressing needs for food, shelter, warmth, hygiene. Depending on the curve of development, these needs must be supplied for longer or shorter lengths of time. A child's wants come soon enough and, like demands for parental attention, they must be shaped, organized and satisfied in some relation to a well-ordered household. Feeding patterns, rhythms of activity and sleep habits may emerge in idiosyncratic ways but, through parental direction, can be molded into what the parent senses, usually correctly, to be to the child's benefit.

Complexity increases as the child matures. Providing what a child needs and dealing with what a child wants become more exacting: first because a child may be a poor judge of the distinction between what he wants and needs and, second, because he is open to other influences, some of them pernicious. Children need to be educated but often hate it and would rather play. What will become their "identity" will depend largely on how the parents manage such matters. Although no parent is perfect in providing for needs and dealing with wants, it remains true that reciprocated affections and common concerns achieve wondrous things that combine to build intergenerational happiness.

For the children in Mr. Solomon's survey, needs are prolonged, and wants are unusual, but these distinctions still need to be made. The problems of providing for an essentially lifelong "need" for children with Down syndrome or autism are of a different kind from the problems of facing an emergent "want" for transgender treatment. To wrap the latter problems with the former as matters of "identity" is to blind one to parental obligation toward a vulnerable child and in the bargain perhaps to betray that child to a manipulative culture.

Children "wanting" transgender treatment are responding not to pressure from a "needful" identity, as Mr. Solomon implies, but to their thought that they can better resolve psychosocial problems by living in the other sex. They are, in this regard, like anorexic girls and require parental—and sometimes professional—redirection to avoid developmental confusions and struggles. The long-term follow-up of "reassigned" transsexuals reveals high risks for misery and suicidal behavior.

Mr. Solomon's depiction of parent-child relationships is also awry. All energy and concern, in his account, flows from parent to child as "identity" support might demand. He never describes how an affectionate sense of responsibility in the child toward his parents emerges, even though, after all, children do often strive to please their parents by modifying their wants and actions. The reciprocated affection of a child and its shaping power on his life direction—captured best by the thought that eventually strikes every adolescent, "I don't want to make my mother cry"—gets no attention in this book. Despite offering touching stories of parents who face challenges they didn't expect—and deal with them nobly—"Far From the Tree" ignores, to its detriment, some of the most natural and telling aspects of human beings as they relate to each other across the generations.
marynn 12 years ago

Is it a crime to befriend homosexuals in Ghana?

Is it a crime to befriend homosexuals in Ghana?
Paa KWESSI IN THE BRONX 12 years ago

YES, IT IS A CRIME BECAUSE THEY WILL TRY TO RECRUIT YOU. BY BEFRIENDING HOMOSEXUALS YOU CAN BE PROSECUTED WITH THE CRIMINAL MOTIVE OF "ASSOCIATION WITH CRIMINALS".

YES, IT IS A CRIME BECAUSE THEY WILL TRY TO RECRUIT YOU. BY BEFRIENDING HOMOSEXUALS YOU CAN BE PROSECUTED WITH THE CRIMINAL MOTIVE OF "ASSOCIATION WITH CRIMINALS".
Robert Bence 12 years ago

I live in the states and I hope that Ghana does not accept this sin in its country. This man should be hung by what little balls he has for all to see. I tolerate many things but homo's are not welcome here or anywhere exce ...
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I live in the states and I hope that Ghana does not accept this sin in its country. This man should be hung by what little balls he has for all to see. I tolerate many things but homo's are not welcome here or anywhere except hell.
rash...(NYC) 12 years ago

THE DEVIL WORKS IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS...This is how this slowly spread in the western world and is rooted in the white mans culture now ..its a disease..its spreading through to Ghana n africa as a whole...our law makers have n ...
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THE DEVIL WORKS IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS...This is how this slowly spread in the western world and is rooted in the white mans culture now ..its a disease..its spreading through to Ghana n africa as a whole...our law makers have no balls to pass a law banning this disorder once and for all...who ever saw a male dog n a male dog have sex...so the gay person and a dog who is more human now...something even animals dont do...unless the ones like the snail n some insects which God made both male n female to be able to reproduce...a word to the wise is enough...
Paa KWESSI IN THE BRONX 12 years ago

I AM A STRONG NDC SUPPORTER AND HAVE FOUGHT MY WAY TO ENSURE THAT MAHAMA IS ELECTED AS PRESIDENT OF GOD FEARING AND MORAL REPUBLIC OF GHANA. BUT IF MAHAMA DARES TO IMPORT THE GAY CULTURE IN GHANA, I WILL CAMPAIGN AND INVOKE T ...
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I AM A STRONG NDC SUPPORTER AND HAVE FOUGHT MY WAY TO ENSURE THAT MAHAMA IS ELECTED AS PRESIDENT OF GOD FEARING AND MORAL REPUBLIC OF GHANA. BUT IF MAHAMA DARES TO IMPORT THE GAY CULTURE IN GHANA, I WILL CAMPAIGN AND INVOKE THE WRATH OF GOD ON HIM TO ENSURE THAT HE NEVER GETS A SECOND TERM IN OFFICE.

WE HAVE SEEN WHAT THE GAY MENTALLY UNSTABLE PEOPLE HAVE COST US HER IN THE US. SEE WHAT THE US HAS BECOME WITH THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY EMBRACING THE MENTALLY SICK GAY PEOPLE HERE?

IN FACT I WAS TRYING TO FIND WAYS TO LURE SOME GAY PEOPLE TO GHANA SO THAT THEY CAN BE ARRESTED, AND PUT IN ASYLUM DOWN HOSPITAL FOR TREATMENT. UNLESS MR. PRESIDENT YOU ARE USING TACTICS TO LURE THEM IN AND HAVE THEM ARRESTED, DO NOT SUPPORT GAYHOOD AND FAGGOTHOOD IN GHANA.
John Kpeglo 12 years ago

In Ghana known gays and lesbian will be eliminated by lynching them one after the other. You can ask mahama to legalise it but I can assure you that citizens will implement the law perfectly within the shortest possible time. ...
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In Ghana known gays and lesbian will be eliminated by lynching them one after the other. You can ask mahama to legalise it but I can assure you that citizens will implement the law perfectly within the shortest possible time. Woe unto the police who will utter a word.
So Mu Yie 12 years ago

I can assure our president that if he goes beyound his faith and try to bring any stupid idea from a gay man sitting in the comfort of his house, he (Mahama) will loose next election or face impeachment from the people not th ...
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I can assure our president that if he goes beyound his faith and try to bring any stupid idea from a gay man sitting in the comfort of his house, he (Mahama) will loose next election or face impeachment from the people not the low down paliament.
samuel 12 years ago

sorry for solomon andrew,you have a problem,except that you are not aware.Your lifestyle is morally evil and culturally unacceptable.Can l ask you a question solomon,'if someone feels that he/she is born to sleep with animal ...
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sorry for solomon andrew,you have a problem,except that you are not aware.Your lifestyle is morally evil and culturally unacceptable.Can l ask you a question solomon,'if someone feels that he/she is born to sleep with animal should we allow it or not.life is not how you feel,if you are homosexual,sorry,you need councilling,not encouragement.Go away with your feelings
DONG LEE JNR, CHINA 12 years ago

The writer is a good guy, gay or not gay. He's a child of God. The real problem is Mahama who isn't honest to the people of Ghana. This has nothing to do with NPP, this is all about Mahama. Lets face facts and call a spade a ...
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The writer is a good guy, gay or not gay. He's a child of God. The real problem is Mahama who isn't honest to the people of Ghana. This has nothing to do with NPP, this is all about Mahama. Lets face facts and call a spade a spade. Leadership means honesty, Mahama doesn't have it. The jolly ride continues till.....
Hardcore 12 years ago

Andrew, you lie bad! Our president is straight, God-fearing and loved by his people. He will not be an instrument for the devil!

Andrew, you lie bad! Our president is straight, God-fearing and loved by his people. He will not be an instrument for the devil!
MV. Dodoo; usa 12 years ago

Andrew Solomon is the author, You want people to believe you. Go to CNN or BBC stupid fool.

Andrew Solomon is the author, You want people to believe you. Go to CNN or BBC stupid fool.
I-SEE-THE-WAY (USA) 12 years ago

MAHAMA MUST PROVE HIMSELF RIGHT BY SUEING ANDREW SOLOMON AT THE INTERNATIONAL COURT FOR GHANAIANS TO BELIEVE. THE GAY ASSOCIATION IN ABROAD CAME OUT WITH THAT SECCRET WHEN JOHN MAHAMA BECAME THE VICE PRESIDENT OF GHANA,BUT TH ...
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MAHAMA MUST PROVE HIMSELF RIGHT BY SUEING ANDREW SOLOMON AT THE INTERNATIONAL COURT FOR GHANAIANS TO BELIEVE. THE GAY ASSOCIATION IN ABROAD CAME OUT WITH THAT SECCRET WHEN JOHN MAHAMA BECAME THE VICE PRESIDENT OF GHANA,BUT THE MILLS ADMINISTRATION COVERED IT. NOW IT HAS COME TO LIGHT AND SOME GROUP OF GAYS ARE ANGRY FOR NOT HAVING APPOINTMENTS IN THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENCY.
GHANAIANS HAS FALL IN THE HANDS OF THE BEAST--DEVIL---->SODUM AND GOMORAH.
KANEWO 12 years ago

NPP TRYING SO HARD TO PULL HIM DOWN.THIS IS TOO FAKE TO BELIEVE

NPP TRYING SO HARD TO PULL HIM DOWN.THIS IS TOO FAKE TO BELIEVE
ERIC 12 years ago

GOD WILL BURN THE PERSON BEHIND THIS

GOD WILL BURN THE PERSON BEHIND THIS
American 12 years ago

From courting gay rights activists in the West, to dining with ayatollahs in the Middle East, this government strikes me as engaging in boulevard theater to the detriment of economic development.

From courting gay rights activists in the West, to dining with ayatollahs in the Middle East, this government strikes me as engaging in boulevard theater to the detriment of economic development.
ENOCH OBAMA 12 years ago

OH GHANA THE TRUE WILL COME OUT.

OH GHANA THE TRUE WILL COME OUT.
Yaw Buor 12 years ago

I bet you - no Ghanaian gay wrote to you. You are just making up stories. Gayness, surely, is a Western import. Ghanaians who "practise" it are lured by money from Western gay men and women in the country.
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I bet you - no Ghanaian gay wrote to you. You are just making up stories. Gayness, surely, is a Western import. Ghanaians who "practise" it are lured by money from Western gay men and women in the country.
Take away the money and bribes, and this whole gay edifice crumbles.
AMPONSA KAKABO LONDON 12 years ago

Solomon, what is the percentage of Ghanaian population who wrote you?
You better stop your gay propaganda.
If you have John Mahama in your pocket and ready to use him to pursue your gay agenda in Africa then let me tell you ...
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Solomon, what is the percentage of Ghanaian population who wrote you?
You better stop your gay propaganda.
If you have John Mahama in your pocket and ready to use him to pursue your gay agenda in Africa then let me tell you Andrew Solomon; it is been prophesied that John Mahama is going to die this year. Any head of state in Africa who tried to embrace your agenda in his national policy will also die.
Your dyfunctional behaviour is not human nature.
According to HUMAN GENOME PROJECT, there is nothing called GAY GENE.
As pigs do not go for their gender, Ghana and Africa are not ready to import your degenerate morality.
Gay people are also known to be the least trusted people therefore you will deny through your teeth that you did not sponsored John Mahama in the last elections. We know what you gay community did for Obama reelection in terms of funding therefore you better get away from our shores with your John Mahama and Paa Kwesi Amissah Athur with their reprobate behaviour.
Akukura Nyansafo 12 years ago

Go stick a hot searing rod in your ass. Punk ass gay bastard. If your father and mother had been gay would you have been born? The ass-hole is meant for one thing(Shitting), and not for engaging in sexual intercourse as you d ...
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Go stick a hot searing rod in your ass. Punk ass gay bastard. If your father and mother had been gay would you have been born? The ass-hole is meant for one thing(Shitting), and not for engaging in sexual intercourse as you depraved scums of the earth have turned it to be. Keep your nyama-nyama metal illness to yourself and western counterparts and don't try to impose your vices on us Africans.
Best Wishes 12 years ago

So lucky you could gain such access to a high-placed politician. I don't know which state you may be from the US, but let's start with your state assemblyman, have you ever spoken to him before? How about the state senator? H ...
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So lucky you could gain such access to a high-placed politician. I don't know which state you may be from the US, but let's start with your state assemblyman, have you ever spoken to him before? How about the state senator? How about your congressman or US senators? How about your governor? But you've had the president of Ghana visiting your "household of a joyful family with two dads". Either access to Ghanaian higher-ups is cheap, or there's more than meet the eye with all your protestations. Are you 2 joyous dads making it a funky 3some with the Maha?
MENSAH ANANI 12 years ago

NO DOUBT AWUKU AND AGYEPONG ARE THEIR ADVISORS,OOOO WHERE IS J.H MENSAH ND CO.NO FORGETING WEREKO BROBBEY(INTELLECTUAL).THE PARTY IS SUFFOCATING AND WOULD SOON DIE!

NO DOUBT AWUKU AND AGYEPONG ARE THEIR ADVISORS,OOOO WHERE IS J.H MENSAH ND CO.NO FORGETING WEREKO BROBBEY(INTELLECTUAL).THE PARTY IS SUFFOCATING AND WOULD SOON DIE!
yaa yaa 12 years ago

Are you sure of this story, if so what are we
Doing

Are you sure of this story, if so what are we
Doing
Michael Adzima 12 years ago

We are trouble.I thought Pres Mahamah is a serious member of Assemblies of God Church. Only God can save Ghana if some people to very serious prayers now

We are trouble.I thought Pres Mahamah is a serious member of Assemblies of God Church. Only God can save Ghana if some people to very serious prayers now
ALL DIE BE DIE 12 years ago

I CAN SEE THE FOOLISHNESS AND IGNORES,NOT ONLY DROPPING SALIVA MOUTH IS FOOL,THIS A KANTATAA STORY,NPP LEADER ,REMEMBER WE ARE NOT KIDZ FOR TYPE OF STORY,SOME WHO HAVE WIFE AND KIDZ,WHICH YOU AND I KNOW,HOW CAN THAT PERSON B ...
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I CAN SEE THE FOOLISHNESS AND IGNORES,NOT ONLY DROPPING SALIVA MOUTH IS FOOL,THIS A KANTATAA STORY,NPP LEADER ,REMEMBER WE ARE NOT KIDZ FOR TYPE OF STORY,SOME WHO HAVE WIFE AND KIDZ,WHICH YOU AND I KNOW,HOW CAN THAT PERSON BE A GUY?HOW CAN WEE AND COCAINE TAKER BE A LEADER OF THIS COUNTRY,WHY DON'T WE DESERVE RESPECT ?MAYBE JAMAICA WILL BE THE BEST PLACE NANA AKUFO ADO,HE GET ASSEMBLE MAN THERE.NPP MEMBERS THINK BEFORE YOU BRING OUT A STORY,AND ALL STORY WE READ HERE,
ALL DIE BE DIE 12 years ago

FOOL

FOOL
Edem 12 years ago

I have completely regreted for voting for PREZ MAHAMA. He will legalise gaysm and lesbianism in Ghana. How can you say you hate gay but walk, dine and share ideas with gay activist.

I have completely regreted for voting for PREZ MAHAMA. He will legalise gaysm and lesbianism in Ghana. How can you say you hate gay but walk, dine and share ideas with gay activist.
Victor 12 years ago

Don't be ignorant wining and dining with with a gay is like doing the same with an HIV victims.
For the fact that they are gay doesn't mean we can't associate with them.they also have the same right as any other citizens in ...
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Don't be ignorant wining and dining with with a gay is like doing the same with an HIV victims.
For the fact that they are gay doesn't mean we can't associate with them.they also have the same right as any other citizens in our country
Concern Citizen 12 years ago

So this guys goes around the world spending hard earned cash without an agenda Americans don't spend a cent where they do not intend to earn a dollar from. So for the invitation, book promotion, travel to India to plant a "se ...
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So this guys goes around the world spending hard earned cash without an agenda Americans don't spend a cent where they do not intend to earn a dollar from. So for the invitation, book promotion, travel to India to plant a "seed" and following up to see is growth and fruition is an agenda. Please don't throw dust in our eyes. We can see clearly. I call upon the OPPOSITON PARTIES to start duocumentiong these trend and build upon in. We are tried of being held in foreign ramsom thru subtle, deplomatic and coersion. If any govenrmnent cannot defend its people then it is useless and must be REPLOYED/RETRENCH. We a second JJ. Sankara and likes to comeagain. These fat bellied POLY TRICKCIANS AND POLY TICKCIANS are pawning the African Nations for their bellies and not interested in the fate of the people and future generations. If someone is sick you fix the person and not give him medicine to enhance the sickness. If Mr. Solomon and his nations and allies believe in freedom why do they persecute people who believe heterogenois famlies as in one husband with multiple wives, why do they prosecute drug addiict when they do it "... in the privacy of their homes? Instead of promoting science so Africans can build their own Aeroplanes, cars, even be able to feed themselves your promoting LGBT that will increase STDs so we can turn around and buy more expensive medicines like Magic Johnson is spending weekly thereby increase your profit. one last thing, I WILL SUBSCRIBE TO MR SOLOMON TO WORK WITH US IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT SO THAT THE 5000 PEOPLE OR SO THAT WILL BE ALLOTED TO GHANAIANS TO MIGRATE TO THE US BE GIVEN TO ALL HIS COHOT LGBT FROM GHANA SO THEY CAN JOIN HIM AND HIS GROUP IN AMERICA SO THAT WHEN THEY NEED SOMETHING YOU MR SOLOMON CAN TAKE ACRE OF THEM SINCE YOU RAISED SO MUCH FROM YOUR GRUOP TO PROMOTE THIS NONSENCE.
Wiafe 12 years ago

Its sad that Mahama is barely in office for two months and already geting himself such a bad press. From the smuggled gold in Turkey to making a call to a gay activist.

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Its sad that Mahama is barely in office for two months and already geting himself such a bad press. From the smuggled gold in Turkey to making a call to a gay activist.

How is it possible for a president to be making calls to a gay activist--especially in the midst of a debate regarding gays in Ghana? And then Mahama apologizing for his the "sins" of his information minister?

Mahama "may" have won the presidency--but so far he has not shown any good qualities as a leader.

Sure, we can discuss the issues of human rights for gays etc--but the way Mahama has handle things so far shows incompetence.

Mahama by his actions so far has diminshed the presidency. He is looking day by day as a leader of pirates.

I support Mahama for the presidency--but his advisers should call him to order. So far, half the country (NPP) is already against him--why create more political enemies from the religious and traditionalists?

many Ghanaians lined up in the hot tropical sun to vote for Mahama. And many are expecting him to bring economic development to their villages etc.

What will acceptaance of gays do to help the poor farmers etc. in our villages?

Is Mahama steering Ghana into a gay society for just $20,000? I hope not.

Even in the USA where several states have legalized homosexuality--the federal government still doesn't recognize gay marriage. So what does Mahama trying to gain other than the $20,000 he got paid by the gay activists for his book.

Mahama so far shows he is a weak guy. Give us a break, John Mahama.
kk 12 years ago

Let someone in charge tell this man or 'woman' that he can preach millions of years about what he believes in but cannot change our cultures and norms. If he has a problem repecting what we belive in let him stay away from ou ...
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Let someone in charge tell this man or 'woman' that he can preach millions of years about what he believes in but cannot change our cultures and norms. If he has a problem repecting what we belive in let him stay away from our country. When we go to thier countries we respect the way of life though we might not like it likewise them. so no amount of propaganda can change what we think about homosexuality. It is a taboo in our society. They can embrace it it is thier choice and we would not.It is clear he wants to promote homosexuality rights in this part of the world that's why he is extending frienship to Mahama. but it will not work as the majority of the country will oppose any dirty moves by anyone in power to do so.
saase 12 years ago

It is time for AntiSodomy Rights!, these creeps have coined the word Homophobe for those of us normal human beings who abhor abominable behavior...they should simply GO AWAY!.

It is time for AntiSodomy Rights!, these creeps have coined the word Homophobe for those of us normal human beings who abhor abominable behavior...they should simply GO AWAY!.
apetupre-usa 12 years ago

Stupid Journalism
Couldn't choose a better heading than this? Nkwasiafour trying to paint the president a color of their choice.

Stupid Journalism
Couldn't choose a better heading than this? Nkwasiafour trying to paint the president a color of their choice.
AMPONSA KAKABO LONDON 12 years ago

Please go and read New York Times about Andrew Solomon wrote and stop your absurdities.

Please go and read New York Times about Andrew Solomon wrote and stop your absurdities.
Leyla 12 years ago

That's a creative answer to a dffiicult question

That's a creative answer to a dffiicult question
Victor 12 years ago

This is what Ghanaians know best,make unnecessary comments without proof.ask yourself do we need a government who can deliver or a government who is a gay,besides has there been real evidence to this allegation?
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This is what Ghanaians know best,make unnecessary comments without proof.ask yourself do we need a government who can deliver or a government who is a gay,besides has there been real evidence to this allegation?
God have mercy on us
NII DADE 12 years ago

THESE TRUMU,TRUMU LEADER WILL DIE SOON IN JESUS NAME.............Amen

THESE TRUMU,TRUMU LEADER WILL DIE SOON IN JESUS NAME.............Amen
Hear it Clear 12 years ago

Even goats and dogs by the divine plan of God are attracted to the opposite sex. How come a human being that God created in His image brings him or herself so low. What a shameful and abominable act these people are indulging ...
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Even goats and dogs by the divine plan of God are attracted to the opposite sex. How come a human being that God created in His image brings him or herself so low. What a shameful and abominable act these people are indulging themselves in. Tell this Useless Oyibo to go back to where he came from. They finished destroying their own culture, and their next agenda is to use Ghana as a lunching ground for attack in Africa.This move must be stopped and not allowed to gather any momentum.
AFRICAN 12 years ago

DON'T DESTROY THE US AND AFRICA LIKE YOU DID TO GREECE.

DON'T DESTROY THE US AND AFRICA LIKE YOU DID TO GREECE.
Awuradebasa 12 years ago

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
The world is FINISHED.
President Mahama is GAY??
Upon all his involvement with the Mothers of his 19 kids?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
The world is FINISHED.
President Mahama is GAY??
Upon all his involvement with the Mothers of his 19 kids?
AKULAKU 12 years ago

Mahama should step down if this story is true.

Mahama should step down if this story is true.
ATSU 12 years ago

NPP CAN SAY WHAT EVER THEY WANT......MAHAMA IS STILL A PREASIDENT

NPP CAN SAY WHAT EVER THEY WANT......MAHAMA IS STILL A PREASIDENT
Evo 12 years ago

Ghanaians will never think positive and help solve our numerous problems, suspicions and criticisms is wat we know. GOD save our homeland GHANA!

Ghanaians will never think positive and help solve our numerous problems, suspicions and criticisms is wat we know. GOD save our homeland GHANA!
Dennisjame 12 years ago

Here are my design-only cnmteoms:1. Top and bottom bars (where the Home and About are on top, where the web design by paomedia is) should be chocolate brown, not black.2. Too many fonts! The post title font should eith ...
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Here are my design-only cnmteoms:1. Top and bottom bars (where the Home and About are on top, where the web design by paomedia is) should be chocolate brown, not black.2. Too many fonts! The post title font should either be the same as the body font, or the same as the page title font. Also, it should be the same chocolate brown as the top and bottom bars.3. Search button and post comment button should be brown too!4. Link color should be grey, like it is on the post date.5. Basically, most of my cnmteoms are about color pick a color palette, and by the looks of your banner you're going with tans and browns. I usually pick a range of colors and an accent color with tans/browns, I think red or yellow is a nice one. You want the design to enhance your blog, not be a distraction.6. I like the layout, however very functional! Good work.
dankefred 12 years ago

Mankind needs Jesus more

Mankind needs Jesus more
dankefred 12 years ago

So sad about the direction our dear country is going. God help us

So sad about the direction our dear country is going. God help us
lordina mahama 12 years ago

mahama n his vice are gay that is why he want to live with him together

mahama n his vice are gay that is why he want to live with him together
nana yaa 12 years ago

you are very sick.shame unto the womb that gave birth 2 u

you are very sick.shame unto the womb that gave birth 2 u
Eko 12 years ago

All of you small-minded people who profess Christianity and yet do not understand the compassionate teachings of Jesus are the problem with Ghana. You dedicate your time towards suppressing the human rights of fellow Ghanaian ...
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All of you small-minded people who profess Christianity and yet do not understand the compassionate teachings of Jesus are the problem with Ghana. You dedicate your time towards suppressing the human rights of fellow Ghanaians, and yet do no good for Ghana.I read different articles and I wonder, where are you supposed people-of-God when there are reports of environmental disaster, child abuse, sexual abuse, corrupt priests, domestic violence on this board? You are nowhere, because you Ghanaians who screech against gay people like the closet cases some of you probably are - you only know how to hate, it is the only emotion that you can identify with. You are not Christian because Christ preached love, compassion and salvation. If this was not the case then Ghana would be clean, 10 girls a day would not be getting raped in Ghana, women would not be living in witch camps or spiritually enslaved. Ghana is not a moral country compared to those with good gay rights; quite the opposite. And no amount of screeching about the God that you have concocted in your heads to suit your warped views of the world will change that.
Inger 12 years ago

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???????????? ?? 1959, ? ????? ?????????? ?? ???????????? ??? ??? ??? ????? ?????????? ???? ??????????? mafia, ??? ??????? ?? ?????????? , ?? ?????? ???????????, ?? ????????? ??? ??? ???????.?? ???? ???-???? ??? ?????? ????????? ??? ??? ??? (90 ?????) ?????????? ?????????? ?????????? ????????? - ??? ??????????- ??? ????????? ????????? ??????????.???? ?? ????????????:?????? ?? ???????????? ?? ???????? ?????? ???, ???? ???? ? JFK :"At the beginning of 1959 United States cpneamios owned about 40 percent of the Cuban sugar lands almost all the cattle ranches 90 percent of the mines and mineral concessions 80 percent of the utilities practically all the oil industry and supplied two-thirds of Cuba's imports. U.S. President John F. Kennedy, 1960[56]" ????, ??' ???? ??????? ??? ???? ??? ???????, ?? ???????? ?????? ???????? ?? ????????? ????? ?????????.???? ??? ?? ??????????? ???? ??? ?????? ??? ???? ??????? ? cynical:1. Cuba has a 99.8% literacy rate,[3][14] an infant death rate lower than some developed countries,[15] and an average life expectancy of 77.64.[3] 2. In 2006, Cuba was the only nation in the world which met the WWF's definition of sustainable development; having an ecological footprint of less than 1.8 hectares per capita and a Human Development Index of over 0.8 for 2007.[16]???? : wikipedia????????? ?????????
Sherrie 12 years ago

The voice of ratinolaity! Good to hear from you.

The voice of ratinolaity! Good to hear from you.
Pancho 12 years ago

This writer is GAY alright from 20= years ago so yes you are in bed with John Mahama to promote "homo""delicious" in Ghana. You've been a gay activist in India and now Ghana 'cos Ghana is a soft zone. Mahama is very weak alri ...
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This writer is GAY alright from 20= years ago so yes you are in bed with John Mahama to promote "homo""delicious" in Ghana. You've been a gay activist in India and now Ghana 'cos Ghana is a soft zone. Mahama is very weak alright. I'm so sorry for mother Ghana you are losing your culture, traditions and sense of direction. Wakeup Oman Ghana Kwame Nkrumah will not have tolerated this. Where is Jerry Rawlings? I'm so ashamed of him for being silent on this matter. Few years ago he would have released soldiers to whip gays in shape or given them 24hrs to get out of the country or he also just turned Gay? No wonder he's quiet.
JW 12 years ago

Why are westerners so keen on changing the African way of life, but not adopting the bigamy way of African culture?

Why are westerners so keen on changing the African way of life, but not adopting the bigamy way of African culture?
God is watching you. 12 years ago

If you are on your way to hell that drag the people of Ghana with you. Run and don't you look back. Agents from, promoting and recruiting for Satan. How long are you go to continue like this. JESUS IS COMING SOON REPENT.

If you are on your way to hell that drag the people of Ghana with you. Run and don't you look back. Agents from, promoting and recruiting for Satan. How long are you go to continue like this. JESUS IS COMING SOON REPENT.
GABITO BOY 12 years ago

Mmmmmmm

Mmmmmmm
Nana Baffour Wiredu 12 years ago

It goes without saying that a little education on this subject will help us address it more than the heartless anger been used to describe victims. we have also trivialized the subject by sounding religious than we are. i kno ...
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It goes without saying that a little education on this subject will help us address it more than the heartless anger been used to describe victims. we have also trivialized the subject by sounding religious than we are. i know of an adulterer and a fornicator who condemn those engaging in this practice. if we are to tackle the subject on the bases of faith then we as Christians dont have a point at all. the Bible in commenting on gay-ism doesn't abhor it because it involves having sex through the anus, which makes it look and sound disgusting. its about it been an aberration and a deviation from the norm. those quoting leviticus shouldnt forget that somewhere within leviticus we are admonished not to eat crabs, snails, pork, rabbit and so on.

if we are fighting gay-ism because its a sin, then we might as well fight all sins, which includes gossiping, anger, stealing, insults and so on. i am not so much into faith issues but one thing i beleive is that even those of us who are evolutionist, and dont ride on the back of religion, still think gay-ism is not a faith issue, its a mental issue that ought to be checked. researchers and physicians must spend time and money to find out the cause of this perversion and the way forward in addressing it. as an evolutionist, i come from the backdrop that to ascertain what is natural, what is normal and what is acceptable when it comes to such issues, we should first look at our forebears and by this i refer to animals. its obvious even for those of you religious fanatics, that animals predated human kind. in the bible we read that God created the chicken, got monkey and tortoise before making man (Adam). Procreation therefore is not divine but natural. a dog or goat doesnt court and wed before having sex. yet they never get confused as to which sex to appeal to. no dog will fuck another dog, neither have i seen a bitch sticking tis fingers in the ass of another bitch.

these have come about as a result of our ability to reason. if reasoning will lead us to such acts of perversion then, animals tend to be better and intelligent than us. to find out what is natural, lets look at animals, they have no cognitive function that helps them solve problems, i am sure chickens and pigs would have found a way to defend themselves a long time ago. they act as predicated by nature. unfortunately its our friends in the west who by all means and intent should know better who are engaging in such follies. they first brought us religion i.e. Christianity and now are throwing everything they thought us to the dogs. they even told us that sex was a sin. now not only can we have premarital sex but sex between a man and a man. also please we seem to be only concerned with sex between two men, and find that of two woman OK, i guess we are more concerned with the anal act that the gender. its not proper for two men to lie together as man and woman, plain and simple.
Whatever 12 years ago

Nana Oye is NOT a gay right advocate so Solomon andrews should get his facts right in order not to create problems for her

Nana Oye is NOT a gay right advocate so Solomon andrews should get his facts right in order not to create problems for her
Kojo Menka, Bremen, Germany 12 years ago

This is what the npp understands as freedom of expression. It only undermine the credibility of the party. You can say whatever you want to say, it does not make it the truth. Ask Rush lIMBAUGH of USA, how he villified Obama, ...
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This is what the npp understands as freedom of expression. It only undermine the credibility of the party. You can say whatever you want to say, it does not make it the truth. Ask Rush lIMBAUGH of USA, how he villified Obama, and the FOX media group, it does not help in any way, rather people think you are highly dishonest and will not deal with the people in truth.
Freedom indeed.
Hazor 12 years ago

This did gay guy destroy our president ass hole?Is our president wear pads?What do you mean in bed with our president is it the reason he choose a gay as his vice president?please somebody help Ghana is under cause.President ...
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This did gay guy destroy our president ass hole?Is our president wear pads?What do you mean in bed with our president is it the reason he choose a gay as his vice president?please somebody help Ghana is under cause.President of Ghana is in bed with gay pal in bed and ask God for wisdom,The God who destroy Sodom and Gomoriah for ingaging in sodomy.
A.O.K.RICHARD 12 years ago

INFACT THIS MAN IS ELECTED TO GHANA TO DESTROY THE COUNTRY AND ALSO LEAD THE CITIZENS TO HELL.THEREFORE ALL GHANAIANS SHOULD RISE AND PRAY THAT THE ALMIGHTY GOD SHOULD HELP US ALL SO THAT WE WOULD NOT BE INFLUENCED BY THIS DE ...
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INFACT THIS MAN IS ELECTED TO GHANA TO DESTROY THE COUNTRY AND ALSO LEAD THE CITIZENS TO HELL.THEREFORE ALL GHANAIANS SHOULD RISE AND PRAY THAT THE ALMIGHTY GOD SHOULD HELP US ALL SO THAT WE WOULD NOT BE INFLUENCED BY THIS DEVIL WITHTHIS STUPID THINGS
The Truth 12 years ago

Andrew Solomon,u better not influence or corrupt peaple, repent else the wraught of God will send u 2 hell.

Andrew Solomon,u better not influence or corrupt peaple, repent else the wraught of God will send u 2 hell.
Nice man 12 years ago

Who is this writer Andrew Solomon and what is he trying to say. pls write comprehensible articles and not stupid articles

Who is this writer Andrew Solomon and what is he trying to say. pls write comprehensible articles and not stupid articles
Kofi Kofi 12 years ago

I wonder what the purpose of this article is. Just could not get his point.

I wonder what the purpose of this article is. Just could not get his point.
ama 12 years ago

JESUS said;He who has no sin should throw the first stone and all turned and never came back.But afterwards HE told the adulterer;go and sin no more.
Like the prophet Isaiah may the seraph touch every gay or lesbian with a b ...
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JESUS said;He who has no sin should throw the first stone and all turned and never came back.But afterwards HE told the adulterer;go and sin no more.
Like the prophet Isaiah may the seraph touch every gay or lesbian with a burning coal from the altar to purify you for good works, like Paul may you encounter JESUS directly to proclaim CHRIST death and resurrection and announce the coming of GOD'S kingdom. AMEN
ama 12 years ago

Our faith is absolute obedience not about rights.

Our faith is absolute obedience not about rights.
Gbevu 12 years ago

I hope this thing is not true of John because the Almighty God will not forgive John and his descendants for visiting this Heinous crime on mother Ghana. I'm so so disappointed.

I hope this thing is not true of John because the Almighty God will not forgive John and his descendants for visiting this Heinous crime on mother Ghana. I'm so so disappointed.
mahama gay wife solomon 12 years ago

EI EI MAHAMA ASSHOLE TRUMU TRUMU,AYE HOOOOOOOO,AMISSAH ALSO IS A GAY,HMMM ASEM BEN NI,OH OH GHANA YA WUOOOOOO

EI EI MAHAMA ASSHOLE TRUMU TRUMU,AYE HOOOOOOOO,AMISSAH ALSO IS A GAY,HMMM ASEM BEN NI,OH OH GHANA YA WUOOOOOO
HAMIDU 12 years ago

oh! what a shame on the prez.

oh! what a shame on the prez.
HAMIDU 12 years ago

MAHAMA'S GAY

MAHAMA'S GAY
Praline? 12 years ago

no. what a stupid conclusion to draw from this article...

no. what a stupid conclusion to draw from this article...

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Mahama's gay 'pal' writes: In Bed With the President of Ghana?

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