Ghanaian award-winning actress Lydia Forson is still in the fight for equal rights in Ghana, especially for the LGBTQ+ community which has become a national topic both on social and local media.
The LGBTQ+ discussion in Ghana a few days ago revived after the Member of Parliament for Ningo–Prampram, Sam Nartey George took to Twitter to share the progress on the Anti-LGBTQI+ bill.
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He noted that homosexuality is not a human right but sexual preference and as such is it unregulated and not absolute, adding that the anti-gay bill will definitely be passed no matter the odds.
“I have been overwhelmed by the massive support even here on a very ‘liberal’ platform like Twitter for our Bill on the LGBTQI+ menace. Homosexuality is NOT a human right. It is a sexual preference. Preferences are not absolute or unregulated. We SHALL pass this Bill through,” he tweeted.
His tweet was greeted by mixed reactions, as a majority of LGBTQ advocates on Twitter and foreigners took him on for fighting against human rights.
Among those advocates was Ghanaian singer, Sister Derby who described him as a pervert and someone obsessed with people’s sexual orientation.
“You are rather full of perversion. So obsessed with people’s sexual orientation. Shame on you, you backward thinker!!!” she tweeted.
But lawyer Moses Foh-Amoaning, who was recently sacked from the Association of African Albinos over his anti-LGBTQ+ campaign, has added more fuel to the blazing fire.
In an interview with Joy FM yesterday, he said until 1952, homosexuality was listed as a mental health disorder and added that LGBTQ+ people are going to die and go to hell.
Reacting to his comment, Lydia Forson said activists are fighting against people who ‘look like Foh-Amoaning’ but he wants to do discriminate against others.
“Activists are fighting against the hunting and killing of people who look like you for their body parts in some countries; all because they’re seen as ‘different.’ Meanwhile you that’s endured discrimination want to do same to others? This is so confusing to me,” she tweeted.
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