GPCC pressures Parliament to pass anti-LGBTQ bill
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- 12 Sep 2022
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The Ghana Pentecostal and Charismatic Council (GPCC) has given Parliament up the end of October 2022 to pass the anti-Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) bill into law.
Reverend Professor Paul Frimpong-Manso, President of the Council, who made the call, said failure by Parliament to pass the law by the said date would see the GPCC take various actions against the legislature and government, including hitting the streets with its members to demonstrate.
He sounded the warning at a farewell service held for Reverend Dr Emmanuel Barrigah, the immediate past General Secretary of the GPCC, in Accra.
The Council also inducted into office Apostle Immanuel Nii Okuley Tetteh as the new General Secretary of the GPCC.
Rev Frimpong-Manso said the GPCC was in full support of the bill and that Parliament must speed up its passage into law for Ghanaians.
He cautioned that the Council would not hesitate to call its members on to the street to demonstrate if Parliament failed to pass the bill into law by the close of October.
“I wish to use this opportune platform to remind Government and in particular, the leadership of Parliament and its Select Committee, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs that GPCC would not hesitate to call its members onto the streets should they fail to pass the Bill into law by the end of October 2022.
“We want that bill passed,” he emphasised.
The anti-LGBTQI bill also known as the “Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill,” is a private members bill, currently before Parliament which seeks to criminalise all anti-LGBTQ activities in the country.
Rev Frimpong-Manso commended Rev Barrigah, the immediate past General Secretary for his enormous contribution to the progress of the GPCC, especially in advancing the Council’s position in the formulation of the anti-LGBTQ bill.
He said under the transformational leadership of Rev Barrigah unity among Christians had been strengthened while public visibility of the GPCC had been enhanced over the past five years. Read More...
