Is violence against the LGBT community the answer?

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• Mark (UK) 11 years ago

  Let me first congratulate you on your bravery in taking on a controversial subject such as you this.
  Your write up was good but it has a few errors.
  An instance of such error is that you state that there is no law in Ghan ...
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  Let me first congratulate you on your bravery in taking on a controversial subject such as you this.
  Your write up was good but it has a few errors.
  An instance of such error is that you state that there is no law in Ghana which bans homosexuality. Really? Homosexuality or sodomy is against the law in most Africn countries. Check it.
  Again, and this is the reason why I decided to comment on the article.
  I don't know your field of practice, but if you were a member of the health profession, you would have noticed that one of the issues that much blighted this community (LGBT) is that, members of the LGBT were subjected to various treatments in a bid to 'cure' them of their 'disease', including psychotherapy. For you to recommend such a course of action, condemned in the western world is to say the least unbelievable.
  My personal take on this issue of homosexuality is 'each to thier own' or the Biblical quotation 'as for me and my house, we will worship the Lord. If they want to do that, please let them go ahead. but count me out.

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• Jasmin 11 years ago

  You make a number of good points but I think there are a few errors in your argument and what u suggest is woefully inadequate to tackle the problem.
  1. Though most Ghanaians do not endorse LGBT the idea of rampant violence ...
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  You make a number of good points but I think there are a few errors in your argument and what u suggest is woefully inadequate to tackle the problem.
  1. Though most Ghanaians do not endorse LGBT the idea of rampant violence against the community that your article portrays is not strictly true.
  2. Contrary to your statement there is actually a law against sodomy. Lesbianism is a different issue but there is a law against sodomy so its not as if the country has nothing in place to handle this
  3. I find your suggestion of therapy strange because North America where u are domiciled has some of the best therapists and psychoanalysts but LGBT is far higher there than in mother Ghana. SO how can we do any better by relying on them.
  4. If i am to pick your brain a little....assuming u were given the chance to come up with a law what would it be....and if that law is broken by someone what sanction would you prescribe.... a hypothetical application to this scenario will let us all see how laws will help us in this situation.
  
  My suggestion is (taking it up from a statement u made) if this menace wasn't rampant previously then where did it come from suddenly...lets find that out and it will be the beginning of finding the cure.

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• MRDA 11 years ago

  "An instance of such error is that you state that there is no law in Ghana which bans homosexuality. Really? Homosexuality or sodomy is against the law in most Africn countries. Check it"
  
  He talked about Ghana, not "most A ...
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  "An instance of such error is that you state that there is no law in Ghana which bans homosexuality. Really? Homosexuality or sodomy is against the law in most Africn countries. Check it"
  
  He talked about Ghana, not "most African countries"; if you want to correct him, you'll have to do better than this lazy effort.

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• Yakubu Ibrahim 11 years ago

  Let them not bring it to Ghana and infect our culture with their madness

  Let them not bring it to Ghana and infect our culture with their madness

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• haj baba 11 years ago

  its likeyou miss the point here.All these social vises you mention are there but none of them came out calling for legalization of what they do but your LGBT comm. want to force their act down the trowt of everyone.That is th ...
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  its likeyou miss the point here.All these social vises you mention are there but none of them came out calling for legalization of what they do but your LGBT comm. want to force their act down the trowt of everyone.That is the problem/

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• kwame owusu 11 years ago

  we are of the opinion that practitioners are helping to speed up the end of the world as it is stated to be some of the signs of the end times. But reading from your article, we need to identify them n counsel them rather tha ...
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  we are of the opinion that practitioners are helping to speed up the end of the world as it is stated to be some of the signs of the end times. But reading from your article, we need to identify them n counsel them rather than the lynching. But it will be extremely difficult to convince any African that this sin is equal to adultery or fornication in the eyes of the Lord

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• Saint James 11 years ago

  Peter Osei,thanks for your concern.However,I believe HOMOSEXUALITY is a choice and we don't have to use our meagre resources to engage in counselling and other social services to combat Homosexuality.Nigeria,Cameroun and Ugan ...
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  Peter Osei,thanks for your concern.However,I believe HOMOSEXUALITY is a choice and we don't have to use our meagre resources to engage in counselling and other social services to combat Homosexuality.Nigeria,Cameroun and Uganda and other African nations have passed stringent laws against Homosexuality and they are working.I believe we also have to the same and the laws alone will work.

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• soundjata 11 years ago

  what is making africa lose face around the world, homosexuality or corrupt leaders? why aren't these leaders treated the same as homosexuals? anything is cowardice.

  what is making africa lose face around the world, homosexuality or corrupt leaders? why aren't these leaders treated the same as homosexuals? anything is cowardice.

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• Kwajo Kusi...(US) 11 years ago

  I must say this is a well written piece with much thought, critical thinking as well as rationality put into it. I cannot ague the points raised, but to say “YES” violence or stringed laws are not the answer to the LGBT p ...
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  I must say this is a well written piece with much thought, critical thinking as well as rationality put into it. I cannot ague the points raised, but to say “YES” violence or stringed laws are not the answer to the LGBT problem in Ghana. I will reiterate two points made by the writer and I quote, “if violence meted against humanity can force people to comply, then Al Qaida should have transformed all of us to follow them”. I will flip it and say if counter violence worked, then there should be no more AL Qaida/terrorist act. However, after all the heavily assault that American military unleashed on Afghanistan and Iraqi after 911, terrorism is still a big problem in the world, Al Qaida is still as strong as it were prior to the war on terrorism. Today there are more terrorist activities going on around the world than before the war on terror was initiated by the Bush administration. It is therefore clear that violence cannot by a solution for any good.
  Another point I will highlight is that, according to the writer there are no written laws that bans homosexual act in Ghana…if this is true, then our law makers need to enact laws against this act. However, imprisonment of someone or lynching someone because of homosexual act to me will not halt the behavior, it will rather produce the opposite effect which will be more “homos” in the streets of Accra and other parts in the nation.
  I am not in any way supporting homosexuality, I strongly oppose the act, but over and over again violence cannot be the solution. Is time we devise a rational, logical reason why we want not this behavior in our society, and as the writer say we need to act ASAP!!!

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