“We Wouldn’t Need To Pass The Bill To Enforce Our Values” – President Mahama On Anti LGBTQ-Bill

In order to reach an agreement on the future of the anti-LGBTQ measure, known as the Human Se.xual Rights and Family Values measure, President John Dramani Mahama has called for extensive stakeholder discussions.

He stated that the goal of these discussions should be to come to an agreement that the government should sponsor the measure instead of it being a private member’s motion, as it was in its prior iteration.

President Mahama told the Catholic Bishops’ Conference on Tuesday, January 14, that the measure had expired in its original form because former President Nana Akufo-Addo had refused to sign it into law while he was in office.

Prior to the bill being reintroduced, he emphasized the necessity of inclusive consultations:

“It has expired. I don’t know what promoters of the bill intend to do, but I do think that we should have a conversation on it again so that, if we decide to move that bill forward, we move it forward with a consensus. And probably it shouldn’t be a private member’s bill; it probably should be a government bill with governments behind it, after consultation with all the stakeholders to see how, you know, we’re able to move this forward.”

“But it leads us back to the discussion we had that if we’re teaching our values in school, we wouldn’t need to pass a bill to enforce, you know, our family values. And that’s 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.

Source: Dklassgh.com