The President of the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference, has joined that sentencing persons associated with LGBTQI+ activities will not stop homosexuality.
Reverend Matthew Kwasi Gyamfi, believes such an approach could exacerbate such activities.
According to him, churches were in support of the passage of the bill, however, the sentencing regime was not the best approach.
“We think that in the case of this particular law and the way it is being implemented, being placed in prison as the punishment that they have chosen, it is not going to solve the problem. Because you see if you round up same-sex people and you know our prisons, they are going to end up in the same room and what is going to prevent them from going through these activities in the prison?
“And you are not going to put them there forever because they are going to be there for three months to six months. And then they practice this and come out as more experts at it than when you sent them there. Then you release them back into society. So, what is going to happen?
“That is why we were concerned about a punishment that will correct them, that will reform them. So if the government is going this way or if the parliament is going this way that is why we are suggesting that in the prison there, they should add more of the corrective and reformative measures,” he stated.
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana