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<\/div>\nThe National Coordinator of the Domestic Violence Coalition is asking a group calling itself Concerned Clergy Association to stop hounding the Minister-designate for Gender, Children, and Social Protection in public after the group criticized her for supporting gay rights.<\/p>\n Adolf Awuku said the group must proceed to Parliament, the appropriate institution to register their protest against the appointee.<\/p>\n The Association claims that the appointment of Nana Oye Lithur- a known gay rights activist- will be detrimental to Ghana\u2019s image if Parliament approves the nomination.<\/p>\n Lithur was vociferous in her criticisms against persons who, last year, attacked a group of men and women suspected to be gays and lesbians.<\/p>\n The group has also spoken out against the newly appointed Executive Secretary to the President, Raymond Atuguba, who it claims has liberal views on homosexuality.<\/p>\n The group\u2019s spokesman, Bishop Prince Benny Wood, alleged that Dr. Atuguba, in the capacity of Executive Secretary of the Constitution Review Commission, failed to make any recommendations to the President on the subject of homosexuality despite the fact that 98% of the submissions that the Commission received regarding homosexuality opposed it.<\/p>\n In an interview with Joy News, Mr. Awuku questioned the timing of the Associations\u2019s petition and the strategy they have adopted in carrying out their protests and advised the minister designate not to respond to the group in public.<\/p>\n \u201cIf these clergy men have any opposition to her nomination, I think the appropriate avenue for seeking redress will be to appeal to the vetting committee, which sitting will be held in public.<\/p>\n \u201cI am surprised that they will come at her at the time they are coming at her. What wrong did she do? Going to the rescue of human beings who were being lynched, who were being evicted from their homes for choosing to live differently from us.<\/p>\n \u201c\u2026So long as she goes out to protect law abiding citizens, I don\u2019t think there should be any grounds to object to her nomination.<\/p>\n \u201c\u2026The fact that majority of us are Christians does not mean only Christian views are be respected in this country. We are in a democracy. We are not in a theocracy and I don\u2019t think the best way to elevate God is to go persecuting and attacking people who we don\u2019t think are living right,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The National Coordinator of the Domestic Violence Coalition is asking a group calling itself Concerned Clergy Association to stop hounding the Minister-designate for Gender, Children, and Social Protection in public after the group criticized her for supporting gay rights.Adolf Awuku said the group must proceed to Parliament, the appropriate institution to register their protest against the appointee.The Association claims that the appointment of Nana Oye Lithur- a known gay rights activist- will be detrimental to Ghana\u2019s image if Parliament approves the nomination.Lithur was vociferous in her criticisms against persons who, last year, attacked a group of men and women suspected to be gays and lesbians.The group has also spoken out against the newly appointed Executive Secretary to the President, Raymond Atuguba, who it claims has liberal views on homosexuality.The group\u2019s spokesman, Bishop Prince Benny Wood, alleged that Dr. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}