Homosexual people need mental, psychiatric care - Sam George

Sam George, co-sponsor of the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, has asserted that homosexual people need medical and psychiatric attention, linking his position to historical classifications of homosexuality in medical literature.

Speaking to journalists on the sidelines of the 4th Inter-Parliamentary Conference on Family, Sovereignty and Values, Samuel Nartey George stated that homosexuality was previously classified as a mental disorder in medical and scientific references in the United States until it was removed following social campaigns.

“All of this onslaught is a mental condition. Homosexuality is a mental aberration. It’s an aberration of the mind. These are people who need mental and psychiatric care. And I’m not just saying this, because until 1976 in the United States, homosexuality was part of what was considered a mental illness in the medical and scientific manual of the US.

“That’s how doctors who were trained in the US before 1976 were trained. The decision to take it out as a mental illness was not based on science. It was based on a social campaign. You don’t change scientific facts with social science,” he stated.

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Samuel Nartey George also called on Parliament to transmit the bill to President John Dramani Mahama for the necessary constitutional processes.

He argued that Parliament’s Standing Orders do not provide room for reconsideration of the bill, following a request by the Speaker.

According to him, once a bill has been duly passed, Parliament’s role is complete, and the next step lies with the President.

Sam George said the Speaker’s suggestion for a reconsideration of the bill is not supported by parliamentary procedure.

“The Speaker has made an appeal. I have gone through the Standing Orders since I saw that appeal, and there is nothing in our Standing Orders for a rescission. When Parliament passes a bill, Parliament is functus officio.

“The only role Parliament has today is to transmit the bill to the President. When it goes to the President, the President has indicated he would want to scrutinise the bill. The Constitution spells out the steps the President can take,” he said.

Samuel Nartey George , Co-sponsor of the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, states that homosexuality was previously classified as a mental disorder in medical and scientific references in the United States until it was removed following social campaigns.

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