President John Dramani Mahama has proposed the reintroduction of the Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill, commonly referred to as the Anti-Gay Bill, as a government-sponsored initiative.
The President made the remarks during a meeting with the Catholic Bishops Conference, suggesting a shift towards dialogue and moral education over legal measures.
He lamented that the bill faced some hurdles due to the legal actions filed against it by some individuals.
Mr. Mahama told the bishops that it failed to reach the president’s desk for assent due to legal and procedural issues.
“But as far as I know, the bill did not get to the president. And so, the convention is that all bills that are not assented to before the expiration of the life of parliaments expire. And so that bill effectively is there; it has expired,” he noted.
“The bill died with the Eighth Parliament, but I think we need to have a conversation on that. But I think it should not be a private member’s bill but a government-sponsored one,” he said.
“If we were teaching our values in schools, we wouldn’t need to pass a bill to enforce our family values,” he explained. “And that is why I think, more than even the family values bill, is us agreeing on a curriculum that inculcates these values into our children as they are growing up so that we don’t need to legislate it.”
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
