{"id":23580,"date":"2022-06-19T06:38:58","date_gmt":"2022-06-19T06:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=23580"},"modified":"2022-06-19T06:38:58","modified_gmt":"2022-06-19T06:38:58","slug":"allow-gays-lesbians-to-be-free-freddy-blay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/06\/19\/allow-gays-lesbians-to-be-free-freddy-blay\/","title":{"rendered":"Allow gays, lesbians to be free \u2013 Freddy Blay"},"content":{"rendered":"

The National Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Freddy Blay has called on the public to stop the hypocrisy and allow people who want to be gays to live a free life.<\/p>\n

Mr Blay added that even though he does not subscribe to the practice of homosexuality, the public outcry and discussions are unnecessary.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI don\u2019t subscribe to gayism. It\u2019s a choice. Because I\u2019m not attracted by them. But I don\u2019t want to go into people\u2019s bedrooms. I don\u2019t want to see what they\u2019re doing. If people want to be gay, I think it should be their own problem.<\/p>\n

\u201cI won\u2019t go-ahead to be a persecutor of those who want to be together as man and man, or woman and woman. I think there\u2019s too much hypocrisy about it. And we\u2019ve been excited, emotions have been excited over it to the extent that we\u2019re not sober over it. I honestly don\u2019t see [what] the hullabaloo is all about. We should allow them,\u201d he said in an interview on Asaase Radio.<\/p>\n

Debate on the subject of homosexuality has been very heated in recent times with the majority of Ghanaians completely against the legalisation of the practice in the country.<\/p>\n

Some MPs including Ningo-Prampram MP Sam George have presented a bill \u2013 the Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill \u2013 popularly called the anti-LGBTQ Bill, are lamenting the delay in progressing the proposed legislation through Parliament.<\/p>\n

But Private Legal Practitioner, Akoto Ampaw has called on Parliament to reject the Anti-LGBTQI Bill, which he claims does not meet legal requirements as stipulated in the 1992 Constitution.

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According to him, the Bill in its current form violates Article 1(1) (2):\u201d which uphold the sovereignty of the people of Ghana in whose name and whose welfare the powers of Government shall be exercised in the manner and within the limits laid down in the Constitution\u201d.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The National Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Freddy Blay has called on the public to stop the hypocrisy and allow people who want to be gays to live a free life. Mr Blay added that even though he does not subscribe to the practice of homosexuality, the public outcry and discussions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":23581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[9609,2632,11043,13214,11941,7489,11399,539,5455,6560,10124,192,4521,12502,2264,11493,7851,2717,11743,278,2402,412,1198,2444,5273,594],"class_list":["post-23580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-1992-constitution","tag-akoto-ampaw","tag-anti-lgbtq","tag-anti-lgbtq-bill","tag-bill","tag-chairman","tag-debate","tag-delay","tag-family","tag-gay","tag-gays","tag-ghana","tag-ghanaian","tag-ghanaians","tag-government","tag-interview","tag-legal-practitioner","tag-lgbtq","tag-majority","tag-mp","tag-mps","tag-ningo","tag-parliament","tag-sam-george","tag-woman","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}