‘Our country is on track for creating a better society, better living standards, and better quality of life, devoid of poverty and illiteracy for its citizenry, if we reject this undignified and immoral act that is not even practiced by animals in the jungle,’ he said.
Sheikh Sharubutu, who made the call in a statement issued in Accra to condemn homosexuality in the country, said, ‘Islam forbids homosexual practices (sexual relations between two men or between two women), regarding it as a great sin. In a society under Islamic law, such practices would be severely punished.’
The National Chief Imam said Ghanaians, in their adherent to the rule of law, provisions of the Constitution, and desire for national peace, unity and development, had made the people a family, irrespective of colour, religion and ethnicity.
He said: ‘Although the Ghanaian society and culture is very liberal in many areas, we command humble, dignified and decent lives and cultures, and that is the more reason why our constitution talks about the dignity of all persons, as inviolable.
‘In as much as we strive in our quest for perpetual peace and development to attain heights in developmental projects, we should not allow or tolerate the infiltrations of foreign cultures into our sacred societies.
‘The family is crucial and important element in the fabric of our society, and the destruction of a family amounts to the destruction of a community, and the destruction of a community amounts to the destruction of a nation, may the Merciful God forbid that from happening in Ghana.’
Source: GNA
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