The Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill 2021 has among, other severe sanctions against activities of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Transexual, Ally, Pansexual+ proposed a prison sentence for ”gross indecency.
The Bill which is yet to be passed says a person who willfully commits a grossly indecent act commits a misdemeanour and is liable, on summary conviction, to a term of imprisonment of not less than six months and not more than one year.
According to the Bill, a grossly indecent act means a public show of amorous relations between or among persons of the same sex, public show of amorous relations between to among persons where one or more of the persons have undergone gender sex reassignment or intentional cross-dressing to portray that person is of a gender different from the gender assigned at birth with intent to engage in an act prohibited under the Acr.
On marriage, the Bill is proposing that a marriage entered into by persons of the same sex or a person who has undergone gender or sex reassignment is void.
A certificate also issued foreign authority pursuant to marriage is unenforceable in Ghana.,
Persons who administer, witnesses, abets, solemnizes or aid solemnisation of marriage of LGBTQI persons commits a misdemeanour and is liable on summary conviction in a term of imprisonment of not less than one year and not more than three years.
By: Rainbowradioonline.com
