Gays and the Perverted angels of Africa

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Antiochus - London 11 years ago

All puffters should be wiped off the face of the earth and burn in hell.

All puffters should be wiped off the face of the earth and burn in hell.
KOFI KYERE 11 years ago

FOR THE LONGEST TIME HOMOSEXUALITY WAS REGARDED AS A SEXUAL DISORDER BY SHRINKS AROUND THE WORLD. IT WAS REGARDED AS A DISORDER LIKE ALL OTHER DISORDERS.

WHEN A MAN IS SEXUALLY ATTRACTED TO A CHILD, IT IS A SEXUAL DISORDER ...
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FOR THE LONGEST TIME HOMOSEXUALITY WAS REGARDED AS A SEXUAL DISORDER BY SHRINKS AROUND THE WORLD. IT WAS REGARDED AS A DISORDER LIKE ALL OTHER DISORDERS.

WHEN A MAN IS SEXUALLY ATTRACTED TO A CHILD, IT IS A SEXUAL DISORDER.
WHEN A MAN IS SEXUALLY ATTRACTED TO AN ANIMAL, IT IS A SEXUAL DISORDER. WHEN A MAN IS SEXUALLY ATTRACTED TO ANOTHER MAN, IT IS A SEXUAL DISORDER. IN OTHER WORDS, IT IS NOT NATURAL.

HOMOSEXUALITY IS A DISORDER BUT IT DOES NOT HURT OTHER PEOPLE.
SOME DISORDERS ARE ILLEGAL, OTHERS ARE NOT NOT. GAYS DO NOT HURT OTHER PEOPLE WITH THEIR DISORDER.

IT IS WRONG TO ATTACK GAYS FOR BEING WHO THEY ARE.
WHAT TWO PEOPLE DO IN THEIR BEDROOM IS NO ONE'S BUSINESS.

MY ONLY PROBLEM IS THE HYPOCRISY OF THE WEST. THEY SAY WHAT PEOPLE DO BEHIND CLOSED DOORS IS NO ONE'S BUSINESS. YET, THEY SAY POLYGAMY IS ILLEGAL. WHY CANT POLYGAMISTS HAVE THE SAME RIGHTS LIKE GAYS?

AFRICAN POLYGAMY IS CONSIDERED ILLEGAL BY THE WEST, BUT THEY WANT AFRICANS TO RESPECT GAY MARRIAGE?
KOFI KYERE 11 years ago

ARE GAYS BORN THAT WAY OR IS ENVIRONMENT THE CAUSE? NO ONE KNOWS, UNTIL THE GAY GENE IS FOUND. THE WIFE OD NEW YORK MAYOR DIBLASIO, BELIEVED SHE WAS GAY 20 YRS AGO, TODAY SHE IS MARRIED WITH CHILDREN.

THERE ARE IDENTICAL T ...
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ARE GAYS BORN THAT WAY OR IS ENVIRONMENT THE CAUSE? NO ONE KNOWS, UNTIL THE GAY GENE IS FOUND. THE WIFE OD NEW YORK MAYOR DIBLASIO, BELIEVED SHE WAS GAY 20 YRS AGO, TODAY SHE IS MARRIED WITH CHILDREN.

THERE ARE IDENTICAL TWINS WHO ARE NOT ALL GAY. IF IT IS GENETIC, ALL IDENTICAL TWINS SHOULD BE OF THE SAME SEXUAL ORIENTATION.
THE GAY ISSUE IS VERY COMPLEX. EVEN GAY ACTIVISTS HAVE NO SINGLE VOICE.

WHAT CAUSES SOME TO BE GAY? ARE GAYS BORN OR MADE BY SOCIETY? IT IS HARD TO TELL.

WHAT CAUSES THE DISORDER IS COMPLEX. HOWEVER, IT IS WRONG TO HATE OR ATTACK GAY PEOPLE.
GLAMORIZING THE LIFE STYLE IS NOT RIGHT, THOUGH.
CARDINAL 11 years ago

I will tell you that homosexuals are by and large born like that. They have genes that make them attractive to the same sex but there are some people who have resorted to homosexuality for financial reasons or due to the situ ...
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I will tell you that homosexuals are by and large born like that. They have genes that make them attractive to the same sex but there are some people who have resorted to homosexuality for financial reasons or due to the situation they find themselves in, like incarcerated men.

Homosexuality has been in Africa as long as the continent has been in existence.It is not an imported culture from the West and not too long ago, homosexuality in the west was frowned upon as it is now in Africa.
princewilly@ymail.com 11 years ago

THE POLE WAS MADE FOR THE HOLE,NOT THE POLE FOR THE POLE OR THE HOLE FOR THE HOLE.
ITS ADAM AND EVE,NOT EVE TO EVE OR ADAM TO ADAM.

THE POLE WAS MADE FOR THE HOLE,NOT THE POLE FOR THE POLE OR THE HOLE FOR THE HOLE.
ITS ADAM AND EVE,NOT EVE TO EVE OR ADAM TO ADAM.
CARDINAL 11 years ago

I am not saying it is normal but that is nature, you cannot punish people who are born with abnormalities and homosexuality is an abnormality if you believe as I do and some Scientists have found in the brain formation of hom ...
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I am not saying it is normal but that is nature, you cannot punish people who are born with abnormalities and homosexuality is an abnormality if you believe as I do and some Scientists have found in the brain formation of homosexuals.

Your analysis of pole not for pole is just childish prank.
insight to the bone 11 years ago

the point is not whether or not it exists , the philosophy that if its practiced by some its right is wrong . legalizing homosexually actually means a gross infringement of the rights of the majority as it becomes illegal to ...
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the point is not whether or not it exists , the philosophy that if its practiced by some its right is wrong . legalizing homosexually actually means a gross infringement of the rights of the majority as it becomes illegal to tell your children to nurture heterosexual relationships or the principle of marriage being based on a union between a male and a female . no matter what they say its a disgusting dirty perverse practice and not NORMAL to mankind nor will it ever be right, not in 10000 years .
Nii 11 years ago

Yeah! after God's creation of the world man was made to live in it with other animals and organisms as well as trees etc. Don't forget that by design the world MUST come to an end 1 day and how would that come to pass if ev ...
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Yeah! after God's creation of the world man was made to live in it with other animals and organisms as well as trees etc. Don't forget that by design the world MUST come to an end 1 day and how would that come to pass if every living thing in the world is practicing piousness. Homosexuality is the worse form of other social vices like stealing, raping, killing etc in the eyes of God. Now man should braze for the worse yet to come, becos people will surely start having sex with animals both on land and in the sea,trees etc as their rights and hopefully God will strike on the earth and surely the world MUST come to an end. Nonetheless those fighting a genuine course against homosexuality and other social vices must not relent becos there should be still good people living on the earth prior to the destruction. BRAZE YOURSELF
Myself and I 11 years ago

I recently met a beautiful Ghanaian lady in NJ, we started talking, she was pretty with all the feautures of a pretty woman every man will dream of. Talk of the Coca Cola shape, the humility, intelligence, extremely religious ...
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I recently met a beautiful Ghanaian lady in NJ, we started talking, she was pretty with all the feautures of a pretty woman every man will dream of. Talk of the Coca Cola shape, the humility, intelligence, extremely religious church going lady, very family oriented.

After winning here trust she then confided in me that she has been a lesbian all her life even whiles growing up in Ghana. She has struggled with the dillema all her life to no avail. She is simply not sexually attracted to men but has felt attracted to women since the age of 10.

She has tried dating a guy in the past but hadly experienced any pleasure during sex unless she has to imagine the man as a woman. But she thinks the lesbian life is a miserable life where she wants to change, get married and have childern of her won.

I was never tolerant of such ppl in the past, but after listening to her passionate story, seeing her struggles, and the internal fight going inside of her to over come this challenge to no avail makes me believe that some of these people are born this way. There is nothing we can do about it.

She also declared to me that the practice is so common among women and very common in Ghana. Majority only hide it. She admitted to me that some of her lesbian friends have gotten married to men in Ghana, had kids but practically have no sexual feelings for their husbands. They are only in it to please society and that they still crave for women till this day. Surprisingly some of her lesbian friends are Muslims.

This is a sad phenomena, but no one can do anything about it. It shouldnt be accepted but we cannot persecute them either, I sincerely believed now that some people are born that way just like people been born blind, death or gyimi gyimi kids.

i dont even know how to treat her now, I like her as a person, she wants me to date her and help through it but i dont think she can change. I wanted to run away from her but dont want to betray her trust in me. I like her but cant marry a woman that isnt sexually attracted to men, i want my wife to crave for me. I dont even know what to do.

Sometimes i fell so sad seeing her cry when she talks of her struggles. Readers please your advice is welcomed. Do I run away from her, stay with her and help her through it, or just keep her as a friend and see her through this period?
CARDINAL 11 years ago

Do you have to legalize heterosexuality? Why then do you think you have to legalize homosexuality? Nobody is asking you to legalize heterosexuality, leave them to live their lives. What your child becomes, whether heterosexua ...
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Do you have to legalize heterosexuality? Why then do you think you have to legalize homosexuality? Nobody is asking you to legalize heterosexuality, leave them to live their lives. What your child becomes, whether heterosexual or homosexual will not depend on how you raised them.

princewilly@ymail.com 11 years ago

Q. Did you hear about the gay rabbit?
A. He found a hare up his ass.

Q. Did you hear about the gay rabbit?
A. He found a hare up his ass.
Equity 11 years ago

They can do what they want with their lives,but they should make their own babies and should not adopt from elsewhere.Nonsense and shameful illogical act.Only gays and lesbians will support such shame and make excuses for it.

They can do what they want with their lives,but they should make their own babies and should not adopt from elsewhere.Nonsense and shameful illogical act.Only gays and lesbians will support such shame and make excuses for it.
princewilly@ymail.com 11 years ago

Q. Why can't scientists find a cure for AIDS?
A. They can't get the laboratory mice to arse fuck.

Q. Why can't scientists find a cure for AIDS?
A. They can't get the laboratory mice to arse fuck.
KOFI KYERE 11 years ago

LET THEM LEGALIZE POLYGAMY AND AFRICANS WOULD LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE.
THIS GAY ISSUE WAS NO PROBLEM UNTIL WESTERNERS STARTED IMPOSING IT ON US.

NO ONE ATTACKED GAYS IN GHANA FOR THE LONGEST TIME.
IT WAS REGARDED AS A DISO ...
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LET THEM LEGALIZE POLYGAMY AND AFRICANS WOULD LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE.
THIS GAY ISSUE WAS NO PROBLEM UNTIL WESTERNERS STARTED IMPOSING IT ON US.

NO ONE ATTACKED GAYS IN GHANA FOR THE LONGEST TIME.
IT WAS REGARDED AS A DISORDER AND NOT SOMETHING THAT HAS TO BE LEGALIZED OR GLAMORIZED.

THE WEST HAS BEEN SOCIALIZED NOT TO ACCEPT POLYGAMY, JUST AS AFRICANS REFUSE TO ACCEPT GAY MARRIAGE.

THE HYPOCRISY MUST STOP. POLYGAMISTS GO TO JAIL IN THE WEST. NO ONE IS IMPRISONING GAYS IN GHANA.
CARDINAL 11 years ago

Westerners did not impose nothing on you. Westerners did not make Ghanaians homosexuals. Homosexuals have been in Ghana since Ghana has been a country. Ghana wants its independence and we can tell the westerners not to tell u ...
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Westerners did not impose nothing on you. Westerners did not make Ghanaians homosexuals. Homosexuals have been in Ghana since Ghana has been a country. Ghana wants its independence and we can tell the westerners not to tell us what to do if we don't go to them begging.

Tell them to legalize polygamy when they come begging you for financial help and they start pouring into Africa looking for menial jobs to do, ok? You don't know what you are talking about.

You cannot go begging others for financial help and then tell them not to be in your business, being independent comes with responsibility and our leaders have not been responsible.
princewilly@ymail.com 11 years ago

Q. Did you hear about the two gay judges?
A. They tried each other.

Q. Did you hear about the two gay judges?
A. They tried each other.
KOFI KYERE 11 years ago

Homosexuals have been in Ghana since Ghana has been a country

THAT IS A FACT. TRUTH IS GAYS ARE VIEWED IN GHANA AS PEOPLE WITH SEXUAL DISORDER AND THAT IS IT. IT IS NOTHING TO BE ENDORSED OR GLAMORIZED. THEY ARE NOT ATTAC ...
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Homosexuals have been in Ghana since Ghana has been a country

THAT IS A FACT. TRUTH IS GAYS ARE VIEWED IN GHANA AS PEOPLE WITH SEXUAL DISORDER AND THAT IS IT. IT IS NOTHING TO BE ENDORSED OR GLAMORIZED. THEY ARE NOT ATTACKED OR IMPRISONED.

Tell them to legalize polygamy when they come begging you for financial help and they start pouring into Africa looking for menial jobs to do, ok? You don't know what you are talking about.

YOUR POINT IS THAT IT IS NOT ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS BUT ONE CULTURE BULLYING ANOTHER. THE RICH WALKING OVER THE POOR, THAT IS WHAT IT IS. ALL THIS TALK ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS IS ALL CRAP !
SO THEY SHOULD SAY SO.

You don't know what you are talking about.

I KNOW WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT. THEY WERE IN OUR BUSINESS DURING APARTHEID, THEY SUPPORTED THEIR COMPANIES TO LOOT US, BUT IT ENDED. THIS IS NOT ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS, IT IS ABOUT CULTURAL IMPERIALISM, AND THEY KNOW IT.

You cannot go begging others for financial help and then tell them not to be in your business,

IF WE HAD TO GO BY YOUR PHILOSOPHY, THERE WOULD BE NO STRUGGLE AGAINST THE RICH. THERE ALWAYS HAVE BEEN AND WILL ALWAYS CONTINUE.

YOU CANNOT LEGISLATE ACCEPTANCE OF HOMOSEXUALITY.

HOMOSEXUALITY IS A PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDER AND THAT IS HOW AFRICANS VIEW IT. IT IS NOT ABOUT SEXUAL ORIENTATION.
IT IS ALL ABOUT THE AGENDA OF GAY ACTIVISTS.
CARDINAL 11 years ago

Do you understand what sexual orientation means? Homosexuality is a physiological disorder not psychological disorder. You are really confused. Read your last two sentences and see how confused you are.

Tell me again, how ...
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Do you understand what sexual orientation means? Homosexuality is a physiological disorder not psychological disorder. You are really confused. Read your last two sentences and see how confused you are.

Tell me again, how can two men marrying affect you Mr Macho heterosexual Kyere, what are you afraid of? What are you trying to hide?
KOFI KYERE 11 years ago

ACCORDING TO GAY ACTIVISTS, HOMOSEXUALITY IS NOT A PSYCHOLOGICAL/SEXUAL DISORDER, IT IS PART OF THE MANY NORMAL HUMAN SEXUAL ORIENTATIONS. SO, THEY BELIEVE GAYS DONT HAVE A DISORDER.

AFRICANS BELIEVE HETEROSEXUAL ATTRACTI ...
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ACCORDING TO GAY ACTIVISTS, HOMOSEXUALITY IS NOT A PSYCHOLOGICAL/SEXUAL DISORDER, IT IS PART OF THE MANY NORMAL HUMAN SEXUAL ORIENTATIONS. SO, THEY BELIEVE GAYS DONT HAVE A DISORDER.

AFRICANS BELIEVE HETEROSEXUAL ATTRACTION IS THE ONLY NORMAL THING. GAYS DONT HAVE TO BE ATTACKED OR KILLED, BUT IT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE GLAMORIZED.

Tell me again, how can two men marrying affect you Mr Macho heterosexual Kyere, what are you afraid of? What are you trying to hide?

A MAN A GOAT MARRYING DOES NOT AFFECT ME. A MAN MARRYING HIS DAUGHTER DOES NOT AFFECT ME. A WOMAN MARRYING HER SON DOES NOT AFFECT ME, BUT SOMEHOW, ALL SOCIETIES HAVE LIMITS.

THE FACT THAT GAY MARRIAGE DOES NOT AFFECT ME PERSONALLY IS NO LOGICAL ARGUMENT THAT WE HAVE TO ENDORSE IT.
Mark (UK) 11 years ago

Joseph,
You are very brave to take on this issue. You need to get ready for the back lash as I think Africans and Ghanaians in general are not ready for this.
Consider this, in the western world, the audience are not ready, ...
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Joseph,
You are very brave to take on this issue. You need to get ready for the back lash as I think Africans and Ghanaians in general are not ready for this.
Consider this, in the western world, the audience are not ready, neither will they accept polygamy and polyandry, where as in Ghana and African no one will raise an eye brow if one they see polygamous relationships. In general, homosexuality is not acceptable in our societies.
My own take on this subject is 'each to their own.' If that is what others feel like doing, please go ahead. But don't involve me.
I am surprised this write-up is from some one based in Ghana. Things have changed a lot in Ghana. When I was in Ghana, I never met a man or woman in the neighbourhood who maintained that as for me I am into men or women of the same sex as I am. Neither did I see men and women living together with the same sex in relationships. Things have changed indeed. Which makes your assertion that homosexuality has always been with us untenable. Really, then I must have been naive.

KOFI KYERE 11 years ago

Consider this, in the western world, the audience are not ready, neither will they accept polygamy and polyandry, where as in Ghana and African no one will raise an eye brow if one they see polygamous relationships. In genera ...
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Consider this, in the western world, the audience are not ready, neither will they accept polygamy and polyandry, where as in Ghana and African no one will raise an eye brow if one they see polygamous relationships. In general, homosexuality is not acceptable in our societies.

THAT IS WESTERN HYPOCRISY. IT IS ALSO DISRESPECTFUL AND SMACKS OF A SUPERIORITY COMPLEX FROM THE WEST.
THEY ARE TRYING TO SHOVE THIS DOWN THE THROAT OF AFRICANS AND IT IS WRONG.
POLYGAMY IS BETWEEN CONSENTING ADULTS BUT THE WEST WOULD NOT ACCEPT IT.

IF WESTERNERS WERE INDULGING IN POLYGAMY AND AFRICANS IN HOMOSEXUALITY AND WE TRIED TO SHOVE HOMOSEXUALITY DOWN THEIR THROAT, THEY WOULD CALL US ALL THE NAME IN THE BOOK.

NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO ATTACK GAY PEOPLE. IT IS SICK AND PRIMITIVE.
MY PROBLEM IS THE WAY THE WEST IS GOING ABOUT THIS. AFRICAN SOCIETY DOES NOT ACCEPT GAY MARRIAGE JUST AS WESTER SOCIETY DOES NOT ACCEPT POLYGAMY.

HOW COME WE ARE THE BAD GUYS.
LOOK AT AMERICANS AND GUN CONTROL.
IT IS SICK AND IRRATIONAL THE WAY AMERICAN SOCIETY REFUSES ANY GUN CONTROL MEASURES, YET NOTHING IS BEING SHOVED DOWN THE THROAT OF AMERICANS.

GAY MARRIAGE CANNOT BE FORCED DOWN OUR THROATS.
Mark (UK) 11 years ago

Some kind of energy you have, very evil energy that can only come from the devil himself.

Ask yourself what you can do for your tiny island and let ghanaians worry about their matters. To have ghanaian toto on rent doesn't ...
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Some kind of energy you have, very evil energy that can only come from the devil himself.

Ask yourself what you can do for your tiny island and let ghanaians worry about their matters. To have ghanaian toto on rent doesn't make you a ghanaian, period. Keep dreaming, you can never ever have originated from Ghana. Have you seen anybody in Ghana looking like you when you were there? That your asymetrical, odd and unproportional head and body can't be from west africa.

Its always good to know where one comes from but for you, you'll never ever know this, you'll die without knowing this. It is in fact, hell. I feel sorry for you actually. However, it serves you right!
Mark (UK) 11 years ago

Some kind of energy you have, very evil energy that can only come from the devil himself.

Ask yourself what you can do for your tiny island and let ghanaians worry about their matters. To have ghanaian toto on rent doesn't ...
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Some kind of energy you have, very evil energy that can only come from the devil himself.

Ask yourself what you can do for your tiny island and let ghanaians worry about their matters. To have ghanaian toto on rent doesn't make you a ghanaian, period. Keep dreaming, you can never ever have originated from Ghana. Have you seen anybody in Ghana looking like you when you were there? That your asymetrical, odd and unproportional head and body can't be from west africa.

Its always good to know where one comes from but for you, you'll never ever know this, you'll die without knowing this. It is in fact, hell. I feel sorry for you actually. However, it serves you right!
Mark (UK) 11 years ago

I totally agree with you on the point of hipocrisy.
Let me introduce a slightly different theme to bolster the point. Once ina Lecture, I dared made a point about Africans and female circumcision, stating that it was a cult ...
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I totally agree with you on the point of hipocrisy.
Let me introduce a slightly different theme to bolster the point. Once ina Lecture, I dared made a point about Africans and female circumcision, stating that it was a cultural thing. The whole class came on me like a tonne of bricks. ( I had just come to the UK and didn't know it was a sensitive subject).
I was informed that it is African men who impose it on women as a form of control.
Now they refuse to accept any thing 'alien' to them but want others to accept their practices. Terrible.
Having said that, if any of my Little ones come to me and say 'Dad, I am gay', I will not have them imprisoned. That will be the saddest day of my life however.
Mark (UK) 11 years ago

I totally agree with you on the point of hipocrisy.
Let me introduce a slightly different theme to bolster the point. Once ina Lecture, I dared made a point about Africans and female circumcision, stating that it was a cult ...
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I totally agree with you on the point of hipocrisy.
Let me introduce a slightly different theme to bolster the point. Once ina Lecture, I dared made a point about Africans and female circumcision, stating that it was a cultural thing. The whole class came on me like a tonne of bricks. ( I had just come to the UK and didn't know it was a sensitive subject).
I was informed that it is African men who impose it on women as a form of control.
Now they refuse to accept any thing 'alien' to them but want others to accept their practices. Terrible.
Having said that, if any of my Little ones come to me and say 'Dad, I am gay', I will not have them imprisoned. That will be the saddest day of my life however.
Mark (UK) 11 years ago

I totally agree with you on the point of hipocrisy.
Let me introduce a slightly different theme to bolster the point. Once ina Lecture, I dared made a point about Africans and female circumcision, stating that it was a cult ...
read full comment

I totally agree with you on the point of hipocrisy.
Let me introduce a slightly different theme to bolster the point. Once ina Lecture, I dared made a point about Africans and female circumcision, stating that it was a cultural thing. The whole class came on me like a tonne of bricks. ( I had just come to the UK and didn't know it was a sensitive subject).
I was informed that it is African men who impose it on women as a form of control.
Now they refuse to accept any thing 'alien' to them but want others to accept their practices. Terrible.
Having said that, if any of my Little ones come to me and say 'Dad, I am gay', I will not have them imprisoned. That will be the saddest day of my life however.
Mark (UK) 11 years ago

I totally agree with you on the point of hipocrisy.
Let me introduce a slightly different theme to bolster the point. Once ina Lecture, I dared made a point about Africans and female circumcision, stating that it was a cult ...
read full comment

I totally agree with you on the point of hipocrisy.
Let me introduce a slightly different theme to bolster the point. Once ina Lecture, I dared made a point about Africans and female circumcision, stating that it was a cultural thing. The whole class came on me like a tonne of bricks. ( I had just come to the UK and didn't know it was a sensitive subject).
I was informed that it is African men who impose it on women as a form of control.
Now they refuse to accept any thing 'alien' to them but want others to accept their practices. Terrible.
Having said that, if any of my Little ones come to me and say 'Dad, I am gay', I will not have them imprisoned. That will be the saddest day of my life however.
Mark (UK) 11 years ago

I totally agree with you on the point of hipocrisy.
Let me introduce a slightly different theme to bolster the point. Once ina Lecture, I dared made a point about Africans and female circumcision, stating that it was a cult ...
read full comment

I totally agree with you on the point of hipocrisy.
Let me introduce a slightly different theme to bolster the point. Once ina Lecture, I dared made a point about Africans and female circumcision, stating that it was a cultural thing. The whole class came on me like a tonne of bricks. ( I had just come to the UK and didn't know it was a sensitive subject).
I was informed that it is African men who impose it on women as a form of control.
Now they refuse to accept any thing 'alien' to them but want others to accept their practices. Terrible.
Having said that, if any of my Little ones come to me and say 'Dad, I am gay', I will not have them imprisoned. That will be the saddest day of my life however.
Mark (UK) 11 years ago

I totally agree with you on the point of hipocrisy.
Let me introduce a slightly different theme to bolster the point. Once ina Lecture, I dared made a point about Africans and female circumcision, stating that it was a cult ...
read full comment

I totally agree with you on the point of hipocrisy.
Let me introduce a slightly different theme to bolster the point. Once ina Lecture, I dared made a point about Africans and female circumcision, stating that it was a cultural thing. The whole class came on me like a tonne of bricks. ( I had just come to the UK and didn't know it was a sensitive subject).
I was informed that it is African men who impose it on women as a form of control.
Now they refuse to accept any thing 'alien' to them but want others to accept their practices. Terrible.
Having said that, if any of my Little ones come to me and say 'Dad, I am gay', I will not have them imprisoned. That will be the saddest day of my life however.
Mark (UK) 11 years ago

I totally agree with you on the point of hipocrisy.
Let me introduce a slightly different theme to bolster the point. Once ina Lecture, I dared made a point about Africans and female circumcision, stating that it was a cult ...
read full comment

I totally agree with you on the point of hipocrisy.
Let me introduce a slightly different theme to bolster the point. Once ina Lecture, I dared made a point about Africans and female circumcision, stating that it was a cultural thing. The whole class came on me like a tonne of bricks. ( I had just come to the UK and didn't know it was a sensitive subject).
I was informed that it is African men who impose it on women as a form of control.
Now they refuse to accept any thing 'alien' to them but want others to accept their practices. Terrible.
Having said that, if any of my Little ones come to me and say 'Dad, I am gay', I will not have them imprisoned. That will be the saddest day of my life however.

Mark (UK) 11 years ago

I totally agree with you on the point of hipocrisy.
Let me introduce a slightly different theme to bolster the point. Once ina Lecture, I dared made a point about Africans and female circumcision, stating that it was a cult ...
read full comment

I totally agree with you on the point of hipocrisy.
Let me introduce a slightly different theme to bolster the point. Once ina Lecture, I dared made a point about Africans and female circumcision, stating that it was a cultural thing. The whole class came on me like a tonne of bricks. ( I had just come to the UK and didn't know it was a sensitive subject).
I was informed that it is African men who impose it on women as a form of control.
Now they refuse to accept any thing 'alien' to them but want others to accept their practices. Terrible.
Having said that, if any of my Little ones come to me and say 'Dad, I am gay', I will not have them imprisoned. That will be the saddest day of my life however.
Mark (UK) 11 years ago

I totally agree with you on the point of hipocrisy.
Let me introduce a slightly different theme to bolster the point. Once ina Lecture, I dared made a point about Africans and female circumcision, stating that it was a cult ...
read full comment

I totally agree with you on the point of hipocrisy.
Let me introduce a slightly different theme to bolster the point. Once ina Lecture, I dared made a point about Africans and female circumcision, stating that it was a cultural thing. The whole class came on me like a tonne of bricks. ( I had just come to the UK and didn't know it was a sensitive subject).
I was informed that it is African men who impose it on women as a form of control.
Now they refuse to accept any thing 'alien' to them but want others to accept their practices. Terrible.
Having said that, if any of my Little ones come to me and say 'Dad, I am gay', I will not have them imprisoned. That will be the saddest day of my life however.
Mark (UK) 11 years ago

I totally agree with you on the point of hipocrisy.
Let me introduce a slightly different theme to bolster the point. Once ina Lecture, I dared made a point about Africans and female circumcision, stating that it was a cult ...
read full comment

I totally agree with you on the point of hipocrisy.
Let me introduce a slightly different theme to bolster the point. Once ina Lecture, I dared made a point about Africans and female circumcision, stating that it was a cultural thing. The whole class came on me like a tonne of bricks. ( I had just come to the UK and didn't know it was a sensitive subject).
I was informed that it is African men who impose it on women as a form of control.
Now they refuse to accept any thing 'alien' to them but want others to accept their practices. Terrible.
Having said that, if any of my Little ones come to me and say 'Dad, I am gay', I will not have them imprisoned. That will be the saddest day of my life however.
Mark (UK) 11 years ago

I totally agree with you on the point of hipocrisy.
Let me introduce a slightly different theme to bolster the point. Once ina Lecture, I dared made a point about Africans and female circumcision, stating that it was a cult ...
read full comment

I totally agree with you on the point of hipocrisy.
Let me introduce a slightly different theme to bolster the point. Once ina Lecture, I dared made a point about Africans and female circumcision, stating that it was a cultural thing. The whole class came on me like a tonne of bricks. ( I had just come to the UK and didn't know it was a sensitive subject).
I was informed that it is African men who impose it on women as a form of control.
Now they refuse to accept any thing 'alien' to them but want others to accept their practices. Terrible.
Having said that, if any of my Little ones come to me and say 'Dad, I am gay', I will not have them imprisoned. That will be the saddest day of my life however.
Mark (UK) 11 years ago

I totally agree with you on the point of hipocrisy.
Let me introduce a slightly different theme to bolster the point. Once ina Lecture, I dared made a point about Africans and female circumcision, stating that it was a cult ...
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I totally agree with you on the point of hipocrisy.
Let me introduce a slightly different theme to bolster the point. Once ina Lecture, I dared made a point about Africans and female circumcision, stating that it was a cultural thing. The whole class came on me like a tonne of bricks. ( I had just come to the UK and didn't know it was a sensitive subject).
I was informed that it is African men who impose it on women as a form of control.
Now they refuse to accept any thing 'alien' to them but want others to accept their practices. Terrible.
Having said that, if any of my Little ones come to me and say 'Dad, I am gay', I will not have them imprisoned. That will be the saddest day of my life however.
Mark (UK) 11 years ago

I totally agree with you on the point of hipocrisy.
Let me introduce a slightly different theme to bolster the point. Once ina Lecture, I dared made a point about Africans and female circumcision, stating that it was a cult ...
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I totally agree with you on the point of hipocrisy.
Let me introduce a slightly different theme to bolster the point. Once ina Lecture, I dared made a point about Africans and female circumcision, stating that it was a cultural thing. The whole class came on me like a tonne of bricks. ( I had just come to the UK and didn't know it was a sensitive subject).
I was informed that it is African men who impose it on women as a form of control.
Now they refuse to accept any thing 'alien' to them but want others to accept their practices. Terrible.
Having said that, if any of my Little ones come to me and say 'Dad, I am gay', I will not have them imprisoned. That will be the saddest day of my life however.
Mark (UK) 11 years ago

I totally agree with you on the point of hipocrisy.
Let me introduce a slightly different theme to bolster the point. Once ina Lecture, I dared made a point about Africans and female circumcision, stating that it was a cult ...
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I totally agree with you on the point of hipocrisy.
Let me introduce a slightly different theme to bolster the point. Once ina Lecture, I dared made a point about Africans and female circumcision, stating that it was a cultural thing. The whole class came on me like a tonne of bricks. ( I had just come to the UK and didn't know it was a sensitive subject).
I was informed that it is African men who impose it on women as a form of control.
Now they refuse to accept any thing 'alien' to them but want others to accept their practices. Terrible.
Having said that, if any of my Little ones come to me and say 'Dad, I am gay', I will not have them imprisoned. That will be the saddest day of my life however.
Mark (UK) 11 years ago

I totally agree with you on the point of hipocrisy.
Let me introduce a slightly different theme to bolster the point. Once ina Lecture, I dared made a point about Africans and female circumcision, stating that it was a cult ...
read full comment

I totally agree with you on the point of hipocrisy.
Let me introduce a slightly different theme to bolster the point. Once ina Lecture, I dared made a point about Africans and female circumcision, stating that it was a cultural thing. The whole class came on me like a tonne of bricks. ( I had just come to the UK and didn't know it was a sensitive subject).
I was informed that it is African men who impose it on women as a form of control.
Now they refuse to accept any thing 'alien' to them but want others to accept their practices. Terrible.
Having said that, if any of my Little ones come to me and say 'Dad, I am gay', I will not have them imprisoned. That will be the saddest day of my life however.
Mark (UK) 11 years ago

Sorry guys for the multiple postings above. The computer network slowed down and clicked the mouse one too many. Sorry

Sorry guys for the multiple postings above. The computer network slowed down and clicked the mouse one too many. Sorry
Lolulou 11 years ago

: ) No problem as it can happen to us too! Good point and well made!

: ) No problem as it can happen to us too! Good point and well made!
joe 11 years ago

this is a good article. but what is encouraging is that some of the replies are thoughtful, unlike the normal mindless abuse that this site attracts.

this is a good article. but what is encouraging is that some of the replies are thoughtful, unlike the normal mindless abuse that this site attracts.
CARDINAL 11 years ago

Yes, he is right, homosexuality has been in Ghana as long as Ghana or Gold Coast has been a country though we did not talk about it. Kwadwo Besiaa is not a myth, it was real and that was the closest we came to the realization ...
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Yes, he is right, homosexuality has been in Ghana as long as Ghana or Gold Coast has been a country though we did not talk about it. Kwadwo Besiaa is not a myth, it was real and that was the closest we came to the realization of homosexuality in Ghana.
KBK 11 years ago

Jesus never judged anybody. He left that to his father whom nobody, even Jesus, knows anything for sure about. So nobody has the right to judge and put homosexuals behind bars only because they have the power to do so from be ...
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Jesus never judged anybody. He left that to his father whom nobody, even Jesus, knows anything for sure about. So nobody has the right to judge and put homosexuals behind bars only because they have the power to do so from being in a majority position. It is CRIMINAL to kill any gay person!
Cantankerous 11 years ago

The average Ghanaian is simply too preoccupied with trying to survive to have time left to worry about obsessions of a very small number of their fellow countrymen who have found alternative uses for body orifices designed so ...
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The average Ghanaian is simply too preoccupied with trying to survive to have time left to worry about obsessions of a very small number of their fellow countrymen who have found alternative uses for body orifices designed solely for discharging dangerous human wastes.A disturbingly significant proportion of the Ghanaians take to their beds or rather mats each night very hungry. Their first priority is to feed themselves and their families. DOES THE AUTHOR OF THIS ARTICLE NOT FEEL THAT GHANAIANS FACE FAR MORE PRESSING CONCERNS THAN THAT PREOCCUPYING HIS "ENLIGHTENED" MIND AND THAT OF HIS WELL FED WESTERN ALLIES? PLEASE SPARE US THIS NONSENSE
inusah zanjina 11 years ago

So what kind of narrow thinking is this? you are just looking at the matter from one side. you think we africans are that stupid to take anything which comes from the west? excuse me we are not but you ARE!!!

So what kind of narrow thinking is this? you are just looking at the matter from one side. you think we africans are that stupid to take anything which comes from the west? excuse me we are not but you ARE!!!
Heidi 11 years ago

Yes, majority of Africans are dummies who can't think right or think for themselves. If you don't believe me , just look at some of your leaders like Kwakye Ofosu, Anita Desooso and others. Can they think for themselves and m ...
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Yes, majority of Africans are dummies who can't think right or think for themselves. If you don't believe me , just look at some of your leaders like Kwakye Ofosu, Anita Desooso and others. Can they think for themselves and make a right decision? Dumb ass Leaders!
inusah zanjina 11 years ago

So what kind of narrow thinking is this? you are just looking at the matter from one side. you think we africans are that stupid to take anything which comes from the west? excuse me we are not but you ARE!!!

So what kind of narrow thinking is this? you are just looking at the matter from one side. you think we africans are that stupid to take anything which comes from the west? excuse me we are not but you ARE!!!
CARDINAL 11 years ago

That is how educated you are. Homosexuality did not come from the west. Homosexuality have been in Africa since the beginning of time.

That is how educated you are. Homosexuality did not come from the west. Homosexuality have been in Africa since the beginning of time.
Mark (UK) 11 years ago

People keep telling us that. Please where is the proof.

People keep telling us that. Please where is the proof.
CARDINAL 11 years ago

Mark, I wrote an article about homosexuality in Africa on December 8, 2011, you can go back to the archives and read it or I will post it later here today. Come back later and read it here.

Mark, I wrote an article about homosexuality in Africa on December 8, 2011, you can go back to the archives and read it or I will post it later here today. Come back later and read it here.
KOFI KYERE 11 years ago

THE FACT THAT THIS PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDER IS FOUND IN ALL HUMAN DOES NOT MEAN WE HAVE TO MAKE GLAMORIZE IT.
IT IS WRONG FOR THE WEST TO FORCE GAY MARRIAGE ON AFRICANS.
NEEDLESS TO SAY, ANYONE WHO ATTACKS A GAY PERSON SHOULD ...
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THE FACT THAT THIS PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDER IS FOUND IN ALL HUMAN DOES NOT MEAN WE HAVE TO MAKE GLAMORIZE IT.
IT IS WRONG FOR THE WEST TO FORCE GAY MARRIAGE ON AFRICANS.
NEEDLESS TO SAY, ANYONE WHO ATTACKS A GAY PERSON SHOULD FACE JAIL TIME.

SHOULD AFRICANS REDEFINE MARRIAGE TO INCLUDE GAYS? WELL, AFRICANS SHOULD DECIDE THAT AND NOT AMERICA OR ANY WHITE PERSON.
CARDINAL 11 years ago

What are you trying to hide? Westerners are not forcing any gay marriage on Africans. All what the Westerners Human Right Advocates are telling the Ghanaian foaming on the mouth homophobics is to leave grown up homosexuals to ...
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What are you trying to hide? Westerners are not forcing any gay marriage on Africans. All what the Westerners Human Right Advocates are telling the Ghanaian foaming on the mouth homophobics is to leave grown up homosexuals to live their lives.

Mr Kyere, tell me how your life will be affected if two men get married, just tell me.
KOFI KYERE 11 years ago

All what the Westerners Human Right Advocates are telling the Ghanaian foaming on the mouth homophobics is to leave grown up homosexuals to live their lives.

GHANAIANS DONT ATTACK GAY PEOPLE. UNTIL GAY ACTIVISTS STARTED SH ...
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All what the Westerners Human Right Advocates are telling the Ghanaian foaming on the mouth homophobics is to leave grown up homosexuals to live their lives.

GHANAIANS DONT ATTACK GAY PEOPLE. UNTIL GAY ACTIVISTS STARTED SHOVING THIS IN OUR FACE, THERE WAS NO PROBLEM. NO ATTACKS GAYS IN GHANA.

HOW WOULD WESTERNERS BE AFFECTED IF THEY ALLOWED POLYGAMY? GAYS ARE NOT ATTACKED IN GHANA, THEY ARE ATTACKED IN THE USA AND SOMETIMES KILLED.

NO ONE IN GHANA IS ARRESTING GAY PEOPLE IN GHANA, NO ONE IS ATTACKING GAY PEOPLE.

Mr Kyere, tell me how your life will be affected if two men get married, just tell me.

HOW WOULD WESTERNERS BE AFFECTED IS THEY ALLOWED POLYGAMY?
CARDINAL 11 years ago

Feature Article of Thursday, 8 December 2011

Columnist: Sarpong, Justice

Homosexuality Has Been Part Of Our Culture And Tradition Since Adam

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Ghana is an independent country and the recen ...
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Feature Article of Thursday, 8 December 2011

Columnist: Sarpong, Justice

Homosexuality Has Been Part Of Our Culture And Tradition Since Adam

Comments (204)

Ghana is an independent country and the recent foray into our affairs by Prime Minister Blair of Britain and President Obama using their country financial aid to us as a carrot to whip us into line in accepting homosexuality is not fair but are they right to ask us not to discriminate and stop our homophobic bigotry against homosexuals? THAT I DO AGREE WITH THEM. ANY KIND OF DISCRIMINATION WHETHER RACE, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, SEX(male, female) AGE should be shunned by all peace loving Ghanaians. I have been called names because I believe homosexuals are humans like us and if we think they are sick to practise homosexuality, then they need our help and sympathy and not scorn. We don't treat people with sickness with bigotry to cure them so why should we treat homosexuals differently? I don't have to prove my heterosexuality to anybody in this forum but people who know me in this forum know about my family, a teenage son and a twenty year old daughter so I feel comfortable in my own skin to defend any injustice on this issue.

It is this kind of attitude of witchunting that sent six million Jews, Gypsies and homosexuals to Hitlers gas chambers because the world failed to act when Hitler started his blue eyed Aryan superiority experiment in Germany and we should not allow such a holocaust to happen again in the world. Ghanaians and Africans for that matter have this belief that, homosexuality is akin to our culture and moral standard and it is the westerners who are bringing this 'western culture' to dilute our sexual purity but history do not back this assertion up, Africans have been practising homosexuality since creation. You might call me an African sell out, Uncle Tom or whatever but it will not change anything because the truth is there for anybody willing to learn about this issue.

The homosexuality issue has brought to the fore how homophobic Ghanaians, including the Clergy, Politicians and opinion leaders who help shape the policies that guide us are.The myth of exclusive heterosexuality in indigenous black/sub-Saharan Africa was widely diffused by Edward Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1781)."Referring to homosexual behavior, Gibbon wrote, "I believe and hope that the negroes in their own country were exempt from this moral pestilence." Gibbon's fond hope was based on neither travel to Africa nor on inquiry of any kind."

A century later, Sir Richard Burton, who unlike Gibbon did know something of Africa, reinforced the myth of African sexual exceptionalism by drawing the boundaries of his "sotadic Zone," where homosexuality was supposedly widely practiced and accepted, in such a way as to exclude sub-Saharan Africa.

Is homosexuality akin to Africa and for that matter Ghanaian culture? Did Homosexuality exist in Africa before western influence? Our Political and spiritual leaders would like Ghanaians to believe homosexuality is a foreign culture in Africa which Ghana is part of. Even our own President Atta Mills has said so, but folks, I hate to burst your bubble but there is overwhelming evidence that, homosexuality existed in pre-coloniel africa.In fact the first recorded gay couple in history is of ancient Egypt, namely Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum. The most common form of homosexuality in traditonal africa prior to european influence, was that of men and boys. As a matter of fact anyone who belives that homosexuality did not exist in Africa prior to European influence is a bigot who can’t accept africa the way it really was but rather believe in an “africa” that fits their baseless ideolistic view of africa. Africans and for that matter Ghanaians like to believe that we have moral superiority than any other group of people on Eartth and as such we want to run away from our own history of practising homosexuality. History has not been kind to us when it comes to homosexuality, let not blame anybody for something that has existed with us for centuries. "Boy Wives": Age-differentiated Homosexuality

In the central African Zande culture, before European conquest, it was regarded "as very sensible for a man to sleep with boys when women are not available or are taboo." What do we mean by taboo? In most cultures in Ghana, it was deemed a taboo to have sex with women when they are in their mentrual period. Not long ago, especially in the villages, a women in her menstrual period was banished from the main compound and has to prepare her food outside. It was a taboo for the wife to cook for the husband when she was in her "period". English anthropologist E. E. Evans-Pritchard was told that in addition to times when women were not available for sex, some Azande men had sex with boys "just because they like them." The adult males paid the families of boy wives, just as they paid for female brides. The two slept together at night, "the husband satisfying his desires between the boy's thighs. When the boy grew up he joined the company and took a boy-wife in his turn. It was the duty of the husband to give his boy-wife a spear and a shield when he became a warrior. He then took a new boy-wife." One commander, Ganga, told Evans-Pritchard that there were some men who, although they had female wives, still married boys. "When a war broke out, they took their boys with them. . . . If another man had relations with his boy, the husband could sue the interloper in court for adultery.

"Among the Fon, the predominant people in Dahomey (now Benin), Melville Herskovits in the 1930s reported that, after the age at which boys and girls may play together, "the sex drive finds satisfaction in close friendship between boys in the same group . . . . A boy may take the other 'as a woman,' this being called gaglgo, homosexuality. Sometimes an affair of this sort persists during the entire life of the pair" (though he earlier referred to homosexual relations as a "phase" through which adolescents pass)."

The South African Thonga provide another particularly well-documented instance of a boy-wife role. A number of southern and western African societies also had female husbands, though whether these husbands had sexual relations with their wives is unclear in what has been written. (It seems that anthropologists studying the phenomenon did not ask that question.)

Gender-crossing homosexuality has been discussed as common in the (Nigerian) Hausa bori cult (and in Afro-Brazilian offshoots of west African spirit-possession religion). Among the Maale of southern Ethiopia, some males crossed over to feminine roles. Called ashtime, these (biological) males dressed as women, performed female tasks, cared for their own houses, and apparently had sexual relations with men, according to Donald Donham. One gave Donham a clear statement of the "third gender" conception: "The Divinity created me wobo, crooked. If I had been a man, I could have taken a wife and begotten children. If I had been a woman, I could have married and borne children. But I am wobo; I can do neither."

Among Swahili-speakers on the Kenya coast, particularly in the port of Mombasa, mashoga are transgendered prostitutes who have all the liberties of men and are also welcome in many contexts in which men are prohibited. The paid partner usually takes the receptive role during intercourse, but it is likely that his inferiority derives from the fact that he is paid to provide what is asked for, rather than from his undertaking a particular sexual role. The one who pays is called the basha (derived from "pasha," a high-ranking official and the local term for the king in packs of playing cards).

Most of the reports of homosexual relations not involving differences in age or gender status involved young, unmarried men's sexual relationships with each other. Kurt Falk wrote about an especially intimate bond of association, soregus, among the southeastern African Naman that included sex both between men and between women (with mutual masturbation the most common form of sex, but also males taking turns at anal penetrations and females using dildoes on each other).

An "exceptionally reliable" Nykakyusa (a people living around what is now the Tanzania/Zimbabwe border) reported to Monica Wilson in the early 1930s that male friends, who live in villages of age-mates when not out herding cattle, generally sleep together. The Nykakyusa accepted that male friends who danced together would have sexual relations. "Even if people see them in flagrante delicto, they say it is adolescence (lukulilo), all children are like that: they say that sleeping together and dancing is also adolescence," according to Wilson's elder. He reported that interfemoral intercourse is "what boys mostly do" and also reported anal and oral sex, ("some, during intercourse, working in the mouth of their friend, and hav[ing] an orgasm").

With reports from hundreds of sub-Saharan African locales of male-male sexual relations and from about fifty of female-female sexual relations, it is clear that same-sex sexual relations existed in traditional African societies, though varying in forms and in the degree of public acceptance. Much of this same-sex activity was situational or premarital, though there were long-term relationships, too. The special Christian animus toward homosexuality was carried to Africa by Europeans and stimulated denials that "the sin not named among Christians" existed among "unspoiled" Africans.

The motive behind this research on African homosexuality and for that matter Ghana having been practising homosexuality without the influence of Western culture is not to ab solve white people for other crimes committed against Africa, especially slavery but my main reason of doing this is to give a face to those who are homosexuals. We talk about homosexuals as if they are not humans like us. We have to realise that, the people we want to arrest and lynch are human beings like us who have feelings and have the same souls our creator gave us hetrosexuals. Their behaviour is not something we have to accept or condone but we don't have to treat them as if they are animals.

Some people are using the HIV/AIDS epidemic as an excuse to eliminate homosexuals but we are not doing ourselves any good because it is the homosexuals who because of societal demands are forced to marry women to camouflage their true sexual preference who are dangerous to the hetrosexual society because these are the people society has turned them to bi-sexuals having sex with women and men to hide their homosexual behaviour. I am not calling for anybody to accept homosexuals and their behaviour but we should not be spewing the KKK kind of hatred in modern Ghana, our behaviour towards homosexuals is simply primitive.

Justice Sarpong

Houston, Texas
Me 11 years ago

which sin came to us recently? every sin has been with us since time immemorial. why glorify only homosexuality? then give credence to incest,beastiality and everything else

which sin came to us recently? every sin has been with us since time immemorial. why glorify only homosexuality? then give credence to incest,beastiality and everything else
inusah zanjina 11 years ago

So what kind of narrow thinking is this? you are just looking at the matter from one side. you think we africans are that stupid to take anything which comes from the west? excuse me we are not but you ARE!!!

So what kind of narrow thinking is this? you are just looking at the matter from one side. you think we africans are that stupid to take anything which comes from the west? excuse me we are not but you ARE!!!
Fact 11 years ago

The gayism, gmo, epa thingy is not flying. It has suffered a stillbirth.

The gayism, gmo, epa thingy is not flying. It has suffered a stillbirth.
Edina Bunyi 11 years ago

For a journalist, the author is a very poor writer. If he wants to come out of the closet he should go and do so in his father's house and not bother us on Ghanaweb. We are not bothering anyone with our heterosexuality.

For a journalist, the author is a very poor writer. If he wants to come out of the closet he should go and do so in his father's house and not bother us on Ghanaweb. We are not bothering anyone with our heterosexuality.
Mark (UK) 11 years ago

Allow me to say that thise write-up was not poor. We may not necessarily agree with him. But a good job done. Not only did he write well, he was brave to take on this very difficult issue.
Joseph, this is a good write-up. L ...
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Allow me to say that thise write-up was not poor. We may not necessarily agree with him. But a good job done. Not only did he write well, he was brave to take on this very difficult issue.
Joseph, this is a good write-up. Let us see more of you. Young Ghanaians are rising and it is good to know that politics or more aptly partisanship are not the only issues facing the Ghanaian youth of today.
yes 11 years ago

May God have mercy on your soul. Truly we are living in the endtimes when people don't know what is sin anymore. They call Evil good and Good evil. There is a way that seems right unto a man but the end thereof is death.

May God have mercy on your soul. Truly we are living in the endtimes when people don't know what is sin anymore. They call Evil good and Good evil. There is a way that seems right unto a man but the end thereof is death.
CARDINAL 11 years ago

Do you think God will have mercy on your soul if you stood infront of him and say Oh my Lord, I hate homosexuals from the bottom of my heart and willing to do them harm or did harm them because of the sodom and Gomorrah. Do y ...
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Do you think God will have mercy on your soul if you stood infront of him and say Oh my Lord, I hate homosexuals from the bottom of my heart and willing to do them harm or did harm them because of the sodom and Gomorrah. Do you think that will earn you a ticket to heaven? You don't even understand the God you think you are serving.

God already has given his mercy to the Author and you need to pray to merit his mercy too.
princewilly@ymail.com 11 years ago

DR CARDINAL'S CLINIC ON LESBIAN HEALTH.

A young woman goes to Dr Cardinal her doctor after noticing two small circular rash marks one on each side of her inner thigh.
The doctor instructs the woman to undress and sit on t ...
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DR CARDINAL'S CLINIC ON LESBIAN HEALTH.

A young woman goes to Dr Cardinal her doctor after noticing two small circular rash marks one on each side of her inner thigh.
The doctor instructs the woman to undress and sit on the table and spread her legs. Sitting between the young woman's legs, the doctor looks up at the young woman and asks if she is a lesbian.

The young woman blushes and says, "Why yes I am." The doctor stands up, and tells the young woman, "Don't worry your rash will go away." The young woman asks what she needs to do. The doctor says, "Go home and tell your girlfriend that her earrings aren't real and they are fake."
owasi, USA 11 years ago

here come our brothers and sister in christ.yes we know.thou shall not judge.why don't the whole nation go fasting for this issue and may be God may answer your prayers cos pretty much every political issue in Ghana has to be ...
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here come our brothers and sister in christ.yes we know.thou shall not judge.why don't the whole nation go fasting for this issue and may be God may answer your prayers cos pretty much every political issue in Ghana has to be God punishment for us.We need real jobs,not fasting for jobs and fasting for every god damn thing that we can actually do something about it... and pretty much this topic is one of them
yes 11 years ago

We are living at a time where people don't want to be told that Sin is Sin. When you say it they say you are judging. We have become lovers of evil. When Jesus came into this world what did he tell people living in Sin? He to ...
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We are living at a time where people don't want to be told that Sin is Sin. When you say it they say you are judging. We have become lovers of evil. When Jesus came into this world what did he tell people living in Sin? He told them that Go and Sin no more.
princewilly@ymail.com 11 years ago

A gay man, finally deciding he could no longer hide his sexuality from his parents, went over to their house, and found his mother in the kitchen cooking dinner. He sat down at the kitchen table, let out a big sigh, and said, ...
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A gay man, finally deciding he could no longer hide his sexuality from his parents, went over to their house, and found his mother in the kitchen cooking dinner. He sat down at the kitchen table, let out a big sigh, and said, "Mom, I have something to tell you...I'm gay." His mother made no reply or gave any response, and the guy was about to repeat it to make sure she'd heard him, when she turned away from the pot she was stirring and said calmly, "You're gay -- doesn't that mean you put other men's penises in your mouth?" The guy said nervously, "Uh, yeah, Mom, that's right." His mother went back to stirring the pot, then suddenly whirled around and WHACKED him over the head with her spoon and said, "Don't you EVER complain about my cooking again!!!
Lolulou 11 years ago

Well said - you ahve spoken the truth. What makes Ghanaians think homosexuality etc is like a disease? Ghanaians are humans like everyone else in the world and are afflicted with the same desires/issues etc. Womanising is hug ...
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Well said - you ahve spoken the truth. What makes Ghanaians think homosexuality etc is like a disease? Ghanaians are humans like everyone else in the world and are afflicted with the same desires/issues etc. Womanising is huge in Ghana - just as bad infact disgusting!
E M S 11 years ago

You are satan trying to destroy mankind shame on you and pray for forgiveness if you believe there is judgement waiting for us

You are satan trying to destroy mankind shame on you and pray for forgiveness if you believe there is judgement waiting for us
mensah abrampa 11 years ago

This is perhaps the best defense I've heard made in support of the gay community.
Christians expose their hypocrisy and naivety when they take to a radical opposition to the rights of gays. Many christians,muslims, the so-c ...
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This is perhaps the best defense I've heard made in support of the gay community.
Christians expose their hypocrisy and naivety when they take to a radical opposition to the rights of gays. Many christians,muslims, the so-called defenders of the faith and of the traditional african values system have skeletons in their cupboards. Like most people they look kindly on their personal shortcomings and perverse behavior when under the cover of darkness but in the open they are vociferous in their condemnation of what they consider as abominable behavior in others.
What happened to the Christian principles of charity and compassion? They forget that to obtain God's forgiveness and mercy they ought to be able to forgive everyone who "wrongs" them, steps on their toes or rub them the wrong way and be merciful in their dealings with their fellow humans. What do these people think of the christian faith commandment to "love your neighbor as yourself" and Jesus' Sermon on the Mount teaching to love our "enemies"? Perhaps they read their bibles upside down or seldom or never read them and so miss yet another lesson on tolerance and forgiveness taught by the greatest teacher, Jesus, to the irate and intolerant accusers of the adulterous woman.
If the christians care so much about the doctrinal virtues and righteousness their faith espouses then they must first remove the beam in their eyes. With an impaired eye sight they risk damaging someone else's eyesight.
The greatest threat to our continued existence as a sovereign nation and our nation's rapid industrialization and development is the unbridled corruption and greed that is eating away the fabric of society like some corrosive acid. When you consider that those of the christian and muslim faiths and adherents of the traditional religion constitute about 95 per cent of the population then saying that these religions fail to abide by their own principles and doctrines is a no brainer. The pen and armed robbers are our neighbors on the church pews and across the aisle, in the mosque, and in the traditional society. We are where we are because of these so called purveyors of truth, virtue and righteousness who practise vice. Let them first set their corrupt and adulterous houses in order then we can proceed from that point.
What about the subtle adultery, fornication and prostitution among the congregation? These other vices are tearing apart and destroying families, the basic unit of society and the nation yet we're not making the loud noises about these as we ought to.
Oh my country Ghana! We've sunk so low that even armed robbers have reserved seats at the high table . They are the toast of society's functions. Gays and lesbians are normally peace loving and law abiding people so let's leave them alone and tackle the real issues that are a major threat to our existence for we must live to fight another day.
MARCUS AMPADU 11 years ago

As a young, fledgling democracy, with a plethora of problems to contend with, with a gamut of issues to talk about - how to make our education better, how to improve our socio-economic system, political discourse, infrastruct ...
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As a young, fledgling democracy, with a plethora of problems to contend with, with a gamut of issues to talk about - how to make our education better, how to improve our socio-economic system, political discourse, infrastructural development, climate change, ethnotribal rivalry, GMO & EPA debates, terrorism in our neck of the wood, corruption, and the list goes on; we would be very stupid to be distracted by homosexuality.
owasi 11 years ago

I agree with the article, except we are africans are selfish and ignorant to the point that, it will take 200 to 300 years for us come to our senses.it is not our culture they always say.well my brothers and sisters,think aga ...
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I agree with the article, except we are africans are selfish and ignorant to the point that, it will take 200 to 300 years for us come to our senses.it is not our culture they always say.well my brothers and sisters,think again.( bruyin wawu)important goods is all over africa. bleaching,music,language.please educate your self before you even start commenting on this article.
papa ras 11 years ago

You may be right by saying homosexuality has been with us for a while, but you must also understand that it's a taboo according to our culture as well as our religious believe. It's simply not african.

You may be right by saying homosexuality has been with us for a while, but you must also understand that it's a taboo according to our culture as well as our religious believe. It's simply not african.
It's me 11 years ago

Back in the 19th century, people condemned and demonized homosexuality. Today we are clamoring for its recognition and acceptance. By the close of this century we will be supporting beastiality and incest...what kind of madne ...
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Back in the 19th century, people condemned and demonized homosexuality. Today we are clamoring for its recognition and acceptance. By the close of this century we will be supporting beastiality and incest...what kind of madness is this?..always ignoring history
matzcrorkz 11 years ago

rOmYbw A round of applause for your blog. Will read on...

rOmYbw A round of applause for your blog. Will read on...

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