Freddie Blay, the national chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has said the recent furore over activities of the LGBTQI+ community in Ghana is unnecessary.
To mark Pride month, LGBTQ+ activists mounted billboards in the capital Accra and two other cities with the inscription “Love, Tolerance and Acceptance.”
Rights activists in Ghana are protesting after a crowd, urged on by some MPs and opinion leaders, tore down the billboards that promoted tolerance toward the LGBTQ community.
Talking on Asaase Radio (17 June), Blay said there is too much hypocrisy surrounding the issue in Ghana.
“If people want to be gays, it should be their own problem. I won’t go ahead to be a persecutor of those who want to be together as man and man or woman and woman,” the former MP said.
“I think there’s too much hypocrisy about it. Emotions have been excited over it to the extent that we are not sober over it. I honestly do not see the hullabaloo about it. We should allow them if they want to.
“I don’t subscribe to gayism as a choice because I’m not attracted by that, but I don’t want to go into people’s bedrooms. I don’t want to see what they are doing,” Blay said.
Source: asaaseradio.com
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It is Non-sensi- cal on the part of a political leader to make such a ***barred word*** comment in his capacity or else. Very shameful and disgusting.
Andy Solomon a known gay millionaire invited John Mahama to his bedroom and the latter to launch of his book, 'My first Coup de tat". So Blay's comments and Mahama's action which is more diabolical?
Did he really say that? Where is the voice? I will not say anything until I hear his voice. Some Ghanaian journalist are unprofessional and Stomach journalist as well as agenda and regime changers
Awurade so this is the reason for de delay npp in government is abomination
This man can only be chairman of the NPP and his views reflect the position of the party. What benefits will this homosexuality bring to our country? We have our own problems which we are struggling to solve albeit no headway and you are talking from your ***barred word***. I won’t be surprised that the party itself has been compromised that is why the ‘stranger’ chairman himself trying to champion otherwise what’s the point. I don’t think this man is of a sound mind. So are you saying everything that the western countries practice, we should adopt? This is not what the nation needs…. We want to make life easier for our future generation. You have stolen large amounts of money but I can assure you that a time will come that everything that has been stolen will be consificated to the state like what JJ did in ‘79. You are an ***barred word*** and that you don’t deserve to be accorded a human status. You are an opportunist. If you have taken money from the homosexual community, you better go and return it because Ghanaians won’t support this ***barred word*** lifestyle. I pray that your children and grandchildren become homosexuals so that you will feel the pain.
We now why the bill is delaying. The elephants are behind the delay.
blay woaa ***barred word*** paaa. ***barred word***, ***barred word*** mi nkye wo nwe. ***barred word*** kwa