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Ghana Priest slams British Archbishop for 'gay letter'

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  • Ghanaian Christian 10 years ago

    The Christian Council of Ghana must come out with a directive on this crime. We should not wait for these foreigners to pollute the air before our own leaders come out and give us the proper directive that would be good for u ...
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  • facts 10 years ago

    Homosexuality is a form of corruption of the natural human character to produce and replenish the earth. For the sake of this particular sin Sodom and Gomorrah was destroyed. That sin must not be torelated just as murder and ...
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  • GHANAMAN 10 years ago

    Can someone tell the Holy Archbishop to do his homework first.

    His country has some of the rigid laws that stops foreigners from have a decent life. His own country and church are seriously divided on this topic and yet, ...
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  • Seth - USA 10 years ago

    Can someone tell us why Sodom & Gomora were destroyed, according to the Bible?

  • GHANAMAN 10 years ago

    IT IS SIMPLY UN-AFRICAN AND WE WILL NEVER ACCEPT IT IN A MILLION YEARS ESPECIALLY IT COMING FROM A BRITISH.

    #WE HAVE ALWAYS KNOWN HOW TO HAND THOSE WITH THE ANOMALY AMONG US. WE CONTINUE AS NORMAL AND TAKE NO LECTURES FRO ...
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  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 10 years ago

    Just ask the Archbishop if I can marry more than one in the West. Moses, Abraham and David among a whole host had more than one wife and nothing bad is said about that. Yet in the West, nobody is allowed to legally marry more ...
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  • GHANAMAN 10 years ago

    I WILL NEVER USE THE BIBLE FOR THIS ARGUMENT BECAUSE THEY JUSTIFIED SLAVERY THROUGH THE BIBLE AND GUESS WHAT? IT WAS THE SAME BRITISH, EUROPEAN CHURCHES.

    YOU MAKE A VERY FAIR AND BALANCED POINT AND IF THEY LEAVE US ALONE, ...
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  • MATHS 10 years ago

    The Archbishop of Canterbury was taken from a Managerial Post of some Company and ordained Archbishop of Canterbury. I therefore wonder his graps of Scriptures. But what he is trying to force down the throats of others is tot ...
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  • Krikri,, 10 years ago

    Every sincere Christian know that God has warned against adding or substracting from His word. So can these Arch Bishops explain their letters and support them with quotations from the Bible? No wonder the Bible keep changing ...
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  • NEAY 10 years ago

    i hope and pray they do something quickly about it before its too late.you will never hear that part of our culture has been imposed on them(westerners) any time,but always they are bringing theirs(negative ones) to us to emu ...
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  • GHANABA 1 10 years ago

    Silly fools will accept Gays and Lesbians in a society where are suffering.We dont even have water to drink nor wash ourselves in the country but you are talking about allowing ourselves to be fucked through our Anus.Is it no ...
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  • asante mboa 10 years ago

    yes sir, hit the nail right on the head!
    these western countries are killing us softly because we always have cup in our hand begging for help. If african leaders dont stand on their feet GOD will visit them like HE did in S ...
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  • SUKUSUKU 10 years ago

    Britain is full of HOMOSEXUALS, PERVERTS,PAEDOPHILES etc
    They are slowly trying to bring these deviants into main stream society - WHAT NEXT??
    YES - the next thing we will hear is, PAEDOPHILES are HUMAN & AFRICANS MUST LOVE ...
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  • Koffi Parker 10 years ago

    God even dine with Prostitutes and tax collector the most despised in the society.
    Why would Jesus Christ avoid all the thousands that were following Him and attend to Jabez,zaccheus,Mathew,fishermen,
    As children of the Mos ...
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  • GHANAMAN 10 years ago

    VERY GOOD AT TWISTING INFORMATION. I DON'T AND WILL NEVER HAVE A GAY TEACHING MY CHILDREN. ONCE, I FIND OUT, MY CHILDREN ARE OUT. YOU DON'T HAVE I SINGLE WORD OF HONESTY IN YOU.

  • Koo Boye 10 years ago

    Where in the Bible did Jesus meet Jabez?

  • atugabiig 10 years ago

    I don't understand what you and the Ghanaian priests and especially Pastor Bosumtwi are saying. The Archbishops did not endorse homosexualism, they are only asking these governments with draconian anti-gay laws to have a soft ...
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  • GHANAMAN 10 years ago

    AFRICAN HAD A SOFT APPROACH UNTIL THE IMPERIALIST GOT INVOLVED. IN FACT, THEY ARE REALLY ANNOYING PEOPLE AND THIS WILL ONLY GET WORST. SO CUT THE ARGUMENT.

  • atugabiig 10 years ago

    Correction: RATHER THAN FATWA-ISSUING MINISTERS.

  • OwusuP 10 years ago

    I PITY THE FOOLISH PRESIDENT WHO WILL TRY TO CHANGE PUBLIC STAND ON THIS ISSUE.THIS IS A VERY SIMPLE ARGUMENT,THE BRITS ARE INSISTING GHANAIANS ADOPT THE LIFESTYLE WHICH NOT ONLY ALLOWS BUT ENCOURAGES TWO MEN HAVING SEX WITH ...
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  • John,Tema 10 years ago

    How can you force your neighbour to accept something that is good,assuming it is really good?The British govt is currently sponsoring gay activists to Russia to go and spread gay relationship.

  • GHANAMAN 10 years ago

    I CAN MARRIAGE ONE BRITISH WOMAN FOR MY PAPERS AND ONE CHUBBY GHANAIAN WOMAN FOR THE GOOD NIGHTS.

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 10 years ago

    Don't worry. Putin will be waiting for them. That former KGB man doen't play. The former KGB boss does not tolerate nonsense. The gay activists think Rusia is like the West? They will be shocked if Rusia police should arrest ...
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  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    A Russian bear and a Western Gay rabbit are taking a shit in the woods, finally the Russian bear says, "excuse me ,do you have problems with crap sticking to your furr when you go with the British Fags?" The Western rabbit r ...
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  • nana 10 years ago

    Ghana people will not do that , please take it to where you have that idea from but not Ghana, we cast in the Name of JESUS

  • Ghana 10 years ago

    You are right on point....this is unacceptable by every reasonable n a sane human being. We r with you Rev

  • Ghana Bishop 10 years ago

    It is sometimes difficult to tell the difference between a man and a woman when you meet two white people on the streets. Both have flat chests, those have flat buttocks, both wear trousers and shirts, flagged by an identical ...
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  • zomabi 10 years ago

    MAN OF CANTERBURY COME AND LIVE IN AFRICA AND BE GAY TO SERVE AS AN EXAMPLE

  • ADU-BOGYA 10 years ago

    YOU SEE MOST OF THESE BISHOPS ARE THEOLOGIANS BUT NOT CHRISTIANS.SO FORGIVE THEM

  • Bash 10 years ago

    it is unfortunate people of religious minds will speak dis way.Any way i hope they will have a second thought of dis issue.

  • Abdul Razak 10 years ago

    IS THE BIBLE AGAINST HOMOSEXUALITY? YES THE BIBLE IS AGAINST HOMOSEXUALITY. FINE

    IS THE BIBLE AGAIST DIVORCE? YES THE BIBLE ADMONISHES CHRISTIANS NOT TO DIVORCE THEIR WIVES. FINE

    IS THE BIBLE AGAINST THOSE WHO DIVORCE A ...
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  • facts 10 years ago

    However God never gave immediate punishments to divorcees but to sodomites He did signifying each sin and its gravity, repercursions and punishment.

  • GHANAMAN 10 years ago

    He is just arguing that since we accept something that is wrong, then we should have no problem accepting another wrong thing. That is a classic gay rhetoric. Ignore the bastard.
    Two wrongs don't make a right.

  • atugabiig 10 years ago

    The problem is, most Ghanaians think they know the Bible, but do not.
    My brother, God did give "an immediate answer", whatever that means.
    Compare these Old Testament quotes with the New Testament quotes and voila, you ha ...
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  • anatu 10 years ago

    Despite the fact that God loves all equally, it is unfortunate that deviant behaviour is upheld and defended tooth and nail. What are laws and regulations for, if not for order in society? Africa is not to be dictated to as ...
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  • AMOAKO 10 years ago

    THEY MUST HAVE HIT A RAW NERVE THERE WITH THIS GAY BASHING.NOBODY IN THEIR RIGHTFUL MIND CAN STAND POINT TO A CON ARTIST LIKE DUNCAN WILLIAMS AS A REPRESENTATIVE OF CHRISTIANITY.YOUR WHOLE ANGER SEEM TO BE BASED ON THE TRUTHF ...
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  • Brother Amartey 10 years ago

    These are agents of Satan, doing the will of their father Satan, the father of lies, perversion, abomination and evil.
    Ghanaians must rise up against any attempt at imposing this abomination upon our culture.

  • zomabi 10 years ago

    AFTER CONDONING AND SUPPORTING SLAVERY AND COLONIALISM WHICH HAS POURED BILLIONS OF POUNDS IN TO YOUR CHURCH WHICH MAKES U LIVE IN LUXURY IN CANTERBURY U NOW WANT TO DEHUMANISE AFRICANS WITH HOMOSEXUALTY. JUST IMAGINE A POOR ...
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  • Koo Boye 10 years ago

    Nobody condemned gays and lesbians until they began advocating for their rights.Well, if you want to fuck your anus ,go ahead with your deviant behavior but don't try to force our society to put a stamp of approval on it.And ...
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  • Ben ofosu 10 years ago

    Thank you Bishop Ayensu,a lot of church leders are evil,they promote devil in church's , nobody can convince Ghana to accepte gay in this country.

  • Sammy 10 years ago

    My understanding of this thing called homosexuality is, as explained by Prophet T.B. Joshua, during a deliverance session of a self confessed gay, that we should not condemn the gay or the sinner but the act. God equally love ...
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  • charles koduah 10 years ago

    It's always fascinating that people of faith are so afraid of homosexuals.If you believe that God created the heaven and earth and everything in it,then you should accept the fact homosexuals were part of creation.If you beli ...
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  • oppong london 10 years ago

    ghana should be careful with gmo and homosexuality,it,s clear that these useless bishops don,t believe the bible.anyway i see democracy as a killer disease,because people can say anything nonsense and go free and people wil ...
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  • Atta-kay 10 years ago

    You have to read your bible well, or find another bible to read. The tenets of all religions is LOVE. Love the homosexual, love the albino, and all humans. Love your animals, your trees, and indeed all creatures on this earth ...
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  • spiderman 10 years ago

    Atta kay you are a homosexual shut up and read leviticus foll aboaaa kwasiaaaa fucking shit

  • GHANAMAN 10 years ago

    I HAD GREAT ALBINO FRIENDS. NO ONE HATES THEM. IN FACT, GAYS ARE NOT DISCRIMINATED AGAINST IN AFRICA IN TERMS OF JOBS AND AMENITIES, BUT IF YOU CARRY ON AND WITH YOUR SABOTAGING ATTITUDE, AFRICANS WILL HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO R ...
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  • OSEI 10 years ago

    CAN THE BISHOPS ALLOW US,AFRICANS, TO BE AFRICANS WHILEST WE USE OUR ASSES FOR WHAT IS INTENDED FOR, AND EUROPEANS TO BE EUROPEANS WHILST THEY USE THEIR ASSES FOR WHAT KEEPS FIT.

  • bongo 10 years ago

    foolish archbishop

  • bongo 10 years ago

    dem u fool

  • Koffi Parker 10 years ago

    It is the heart that matters to God not the character,He intends to change the heart(the nerve centre of your being) and give you a new one the one after Himself,and that is what CHRISTIANITY is all about,we are called to tra ...
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  • GHANAMAN 10 years ago

    I HATE TO USE BIBLE ARGUMENT, BUT SINCE YOU BROUGHT IT, I WILL TRY AND MEET YOU AT THAT POINT.

    JESUS LOVED SINNERS BUT HATES SIN. PROSTITUTION IS NOT JUST BAD, IT IS DEGRADING AND I DOUBT, YOU WOULD WANT YOUR SISTER OR MO ...
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  • Koffi Parker 10 years ago

    Yes my bruda indeed God hate sin but not the sinners am really glad you brought this up,do Africans knows better than God?
    Can we protect and provide for ourselves better than God?let alone our children.

  • GHANAMAN 10 years ago

    AFRICANS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN NICE TO GAYS, IT IS YOUR DEMAND FOR SPECIAL RIGHTS THAT IS DOING YOU HARM.

    TELL ME, SINCE YOU WILL ARGUE GAYISM IS NATURAL, WHEN DID YOU LAST HEAR OF A GAY PERSON BEEN KILLED IN AFRICA UNTIL YOUR ...
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  • Boateng 10 years ago

    You cannot blame God for homosexealism. It is a choice and a sickness of the mind. These people need help, but they themselves must realise the predicament they in, and seek help from God. Instead they want to infect the whol ...
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  • HABLUTA SENYO 10 years ago

    HOMOSEXUAL IS BRITISH CULTURE LET THEM KEEP IT IN THAT SEDOM ISLAND BRITAIN.
    KEEP OFF FROM AFRICA.

  • w3 10 years ago

    Re-write koran and bible

  • w3 10 years ago

    To me, worse are the peados psychos and murderers

  • HABLUTA SENYO 10 years ago

    LET ALL GHANAIANS GO TO ACCRA CIRCLE
    AND BRITISH EMBASSY IN ACCRA TO DUMP THEIR BIBLES.

  • Akwesi 10 years ago

    Satan company. Fire burn them all. Why don't we legalise armed robbery too and paedophilia as well. People who are sick in their mind and fashion-craze should be quarantined. They really need brain grafting. Who is not right ...
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  • Karaka Pentoa 10 years ago

    This Methodist priest from Obuasi is brain dead. Who taught him the scriptures he claims to know more than the Archbishops from Canterbury and York? I won't be surprised if that was where he went for his limited education.

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  • GHANAMAN 10 years ago

    YOU ARE EXTREMELY IGNORANT. I WOULD USUALLY I DO NOT DEFEND GHANAIAN PASTORS, BUT THE ARCHBISHOP HIMSELF IS VERY NEW IN THE BUSINESS AFTER YEARS OF WORKING IN THE OIL BUSINESS.

    DO YOUR RESEARCH BEFORE YOU OPEN YOUR IGNOR ...
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  • JB Ansong 10 years ago

    You are one of the men who are either fucking anusses or being fucked in the anus in Greater London.

    May the evils of Sodom And Gomorah punish you!

  • Nana Aba 10 years ago

    If Sodom and Gomorrah was God's way of punishing gays, then he would have finished them all that day. Does God do jobs in halves?

    That story is a cock and bull story used by anti-gays to persecute gays.


    Maybe your Go ...
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  • Nii 10 years ago

    You can't sell this backwards acts to Africa. They should keep their duty practices.

  • MAHAMA LOOT ND SHARE 10 years ago

    MAHAMA IS A GAY,HE MUST STOP BE WITH GAY SOLOMON USA,

  • GHANAMAN 10 years ago

    HE DARES OPEN HIS MOUTH AND HE CAN KISS HIS SECOND TERM GOOD BYE. THE NORTH WHERE HE COMES FROM WILL JUST NOT DISOWN HIM, THEY WILL EXILE HIM.

    I KNOW HE HAS FRIENDS AND THE BEST FOR HIM IS TO KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT.

  • K. Appiah 10 years ago

    Are U wiser than God?

  • KWAA 10 years ago

    I really don`t understand why this hype about homosexualism.ho cares if somebody wants his ash to be penetrated?Are hetrosexuals making such noise.If only these homos ill not try to force these acts on Africans,who cares,but ...
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  • nii 10 years ago

    Well if you believe in the faith of the dogs they imposed on you,they have the right to dictate to you how to go about your life.GO back for juju for juju MAWU gave us

  • Ceeboy Dangerman 10 years ago

    Love thou neighbor as thou self. Thus said the Lord. Amen
    So who are we to judge what the Lord as made?

  • cpp uk 10 years ago

    Why don't the government come out on its stands like Niga did.

  • Kwame 10 years ago

    It is sad to see God's name used to promote so much hate. God's son, Jesus, loved all his children. Jesus taught us not to judge anyone, to love everyone and seek peace with all. People here seem to believe that they are litt ...
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  • charles koduah 10 years ago

    People of faith,wise up.Homosexuals have been around since creation according to your bible ,and they will be around until the end of the world.The white man did't bring it to africa.

  • Rans F 10 years ago

    The white imperialists are confused; they are running away from the teachings of the same BIBLE they sent to Africa! Speaking against homosexuality is NOT hatred.

  • Mr. tina 10 years ago

    What do you expect if you are always going to them to beg for money. The white will soon write a new bible call "NEW WORLD BIBLE". In that book, you can marry animal, incest is good, gay marriage, pedophiles, stealing, killin ...
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  • Johnny USA 10 years ago

    GHANA NO WAY TO HOMOS.

  • Cantankerous 10 years ago

    The best rebuttal by the "Anglican" church in Africa is very obvious: breakaway from an organization which clearly no longer adheres to the fundamental tenets of the Christian faith. So now liberal Western churchmen are now ...
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  • Baaba 10 years ago

    They make the statements because they themselves are homosexuals and molest the young boys who serve as acolytes in their churches.

  • Justman 10 years ago

    LEGALIZING HOMOSEXUALITY IS WHERE THE PROBLEM IS.IF YOU HAVE AQUIRED A BAD BEHAVIOUR OR HABIT IT DOES NOT MAKE IT RIGHT LET ALONE TO FORCE IT ON OTHERS.

  • Nana B 10 years ago

    No bending over for these western trumudicious people. They should keep the practice to themselves.

  • Rawlings the IDIOT MURDERER 10 years ago

    God bless you Rev.

  • show me 10 years ago

    stay away from a foolish man,for you will not find knowledge on his lips

  • alfa Issa 10 years ago

    This is what happens, when we throw out the Bible! You wonder what really Anglican's believe, its a shame!If I were an Anglican, I will quit, its a fake faith it cannot lead me to God. We should join hands and pray for them ( ...
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