Democracy and homosexuality:

DEMOCRACY AND HOMOSEXUALITY: USA IS RIGHT TO LEGALIZE IT, AND GHANA IS

ALSO RIGHT NOT TO LEGALIZE IT.

The tussling issue of legalizing homosexuality or not has everything

to do with the moral sensibility of a society or nation. Homosexuality

is a social, and not a biological construct. As such it unsupported

scientifically.

It enjoys only political support. There are people who are bent on

deceiving the public that homosexuality is as natural and moral as

heterosexuality. Also there are those who are planting the wrongful

notion that, that, the issue of recognition of homosexuality in Ghana

is a tug of war between the freethinkers/liberals/non-religious

against the religious and conservatist as done elsewhere. That was the

mistake done by the opponents of homosexuality legalization groups.

They erroneously believed that morality is inseparable from religious

dictates.

Meanwhile, the truth is religion has lost grip on society. And

anything that sticks to it is equally done away with in most

countries. The anti-homosexuality groups in Ghana must not repeat that

same mistake by leaving the fight and struggle against the

legalizations in the hands of the religious, especially Christianity.

The mention of deities of the bible, quran and other holy books no

longer puts fear in anyone in our generation. So citing such claims as

destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah as due to legalization of

homosexuality cannot restrain these groups, for the claim itself is

deceit.

Afterall what is this biblical deity waiting for in order to effect

the same destruction on these cities and nations that are recognizing

and legalizing homosexuality these days, if indeed the story of Sodom

and Gomorrah is true? Superstitious claims no longer keep anyone in

line except the religious sycophants. So it must be clear to all that

religion had been rightfully dethroned. Hence reason must fight

reason.

Religion can be dethroned but not morality. There can never be a

better time to hoist the flag of morality higher and higher than in a

generation where religion had been overthrown. We are of age to

separate religious dictates from moral dictates. Of course,

occasionally and expectedly that can overlap. Morality is not

superstition, that, we must do away with via the progress of science

as it is justifiably done to religion.

Morality is the rules and stamdards society uses to classify actions

as right or wrong. Man cannot live moral vacuum. And we never did. The

above "definition" of morality is not oblivious of the inherent

tendency of man to do what "pleases him and him only". The inordinate

desires of man, especially in areas of pleasure, compounds issues of

moral and ethical standards of society, and as such threatens to live

without boundaries. Some societies especially outside Africa, for

reasons best known to them, have accepted that.

Or at best have expanded the boundaries of their moral norms to

culturally accommodate homosexuality. And what is clear, in those

societies like USA, Ireland among others that accepted, recognized and

legalized homosexuality is the fact that they have CHOSEN to do that,

statistically via their leaders.

What of Ghana? Clearly we have CHOSEN NOT TO. We are clear in our

minds, like they were when choosing to, that we cannot expand our

moral boundaries to encompass homosexuality in order to become

culturally acceptable. Two Ghanaians families cannot come together to

marry away their same-sex children to each other. As a society, we

deemed that a moral retrogression and not progression.

Every soverign nation must have its cultural rules respected by

others, especially id such rules are not detrimental to the citizenry.

There is nothing harmful about not recognizing and not legalizing the

act in Ghana. It bothers on moral sensibility and sentivity, and we

won't dissolve our boundaries that glued the majority on the pleasure

plates of the few.

Let me be clear that I am not denying the occurence of such acts in

Ghana like other deviant behaviours. The main issue about

homosexuality is the not necessary the occurence, but they want

recognition and acceptance into mainstream cultural norms. That is

what this article sort to emphasize, that Ghana won't expand her moral

boundaries for inclusion of that act.

So, if due to democracy, the statistical majority in USA decides to

legalize homosexuality, then the statistical majority in Ghana is also

democratically right not to legalize it. USA is right. Ghana is right.

And more importantly Ghana is right to not legalize homosexuality.

SESHIE, STANLEY

Email: seshiehanku@gmail.com

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