Former Presidential Aspirant Prof. Mike Ocquaye has asked the African Union to treat with utmost “contempt” and “disdain”, President Obama’s call on African nations to decriminalise homosexuality.
Speaking in Senegal on his second trip to sub-Saharan Africa, Mr. Obama urged African nations that treat homosexuality as a crime, such as Senegal, to ensure gays and lesbians are not discriminated against by their governments.
However, Prof. Ocquaye, who is also a Reverend Minister as well as a former Legislator, has told XYZ News African Leaders must send a strong reply to the US and President Obama that homosexuality and lesbianism are an abomination on the Continent.
“…This is what the African Union must do”, Prof. Ocquaye said vehemently, adding that: “They should treat it with contempt and they should make it clear to him what our own ideas, beliefs and values are and that the permissive society which is now destroying the world, we will not import it”.
He bewailed what he described as an increasingly decadent society and put it down to the foisting of alien cultures on Africans by Western societies.
“…Why won’t children become wayward when they don’t know what is mummy and what is daddy? When the primary source of control is destroyed? When the family from which everything else starts and the child is going to be taught to call a man, mother; no wonder the society will go crazy”, he charged.
“…Can you imagine two Ghanaian families [arranging a marriage between] one man with a mustache and another with a beard?” He wondered.
President Obama on Thursday called the US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act, a “victory for American democracy” and said he had directed his administration to find ways to make sure gay couples received the benefits for which they were now eligible.