{"id":1127688,"date":"2022-06-19T16:57:08","date_gmt":"2022-06-19T16:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/19\/outcry-over-lgbtq-in-ghana-needless-allow-them-says-npp-chairman-freddie-blay-politics\/"},"modified":"2022-06-19T16:57:08","modified_gmt":"2022-06-19T16:57:08","slug":"outcry-over-lgbtq-in-ghana-needless-allow-them-says-npp-chairman-freddie-blay-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/19\/outcry-over-lgbtq-in-ghana-needless-allow-them-says-npp-chairman-freddie-blay-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Outcry Over LGBTQ+ In Ghana Needless, Allow Them &#8211; Says NPP Chairman Freddie Blay | Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Freddie Blay, the national chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has said the recent furore over activities of the\u00a0LGBTQI+\u00a0community in Ghana is unnecessary.<\/p>\n<p>To mark Pride month, LGBTQ+ activists mounted billboards in the capital Accra and two other cities with the inscription \u201cLove, Tolerance and Acceptance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rights activists in Ghana are protesting after a crowd, urged on by some MPs and opinion leaders, tore down the\u00a0 billboards that promoted tolerance toward the LGBTQ community.<\/p>\n<p>Talking on\u00a0A<em>saase Radio\u00a0<\/em>(17 June), Blay said there is too much hypocrisy surrounding the issue in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf people want to be gays, it should be their own problem. I won\u2019t go ahead to be a persecutor of those who want to be together as man and man or woman and woman,\u201d the former MP said.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u201cI think there\u2019s 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.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u201cI don\u2019t subscribe to gayism as a choice because I\u2019m not attracted by that, but I don\u2019t want to go into people\u2019s bedrooms. I don\u2019t want to see what they are doing,\u201d Blay said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3><strong\/><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_133\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-133\" style=\"width: 1600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-133 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/388309796_227830.jpg\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1021\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-133\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"\/><\/figure>\n<p><span class=\"peace_black_text_4\">Source: asaaseradio.com<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"clear:both\">\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"peace_red_text_1\">Disclaimer<\/span>: <span class=\"peace_ash_text_1\">Opinions expressed here are those of the writers and do not reflect those of Peacefmonline.com. Peacefmonline.com accepts no responsibility legal or otherwise for their accuracy of . 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