{"id":161152,"date":"2024-03-11T22:53:34","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T22:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/03\/11\/cdd-fights-anti-gay-bill\/"},"modified":"2024-03-11T22:53:34","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T22:53:34","slug":"cdd-fights-anti-gay-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/03\/11\/cdd-fights-anti-gay-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"CDD Fights Anti-Gay Bill &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) has asserted that the Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill, popularly known as Anti-Gay Bill, is not only ill-conceived but unconstitutional, and does not inure to the interest of the country.<\/p>\n<p>The reaction of the Centre was contained in a press release on the bill\u2019s passage on Wednesday, February 28.\u00a0 The CDD-Ghana stated that signing the bill into law would be a major setback for Ghana and its standing as a democratic society.<\/p>\n<p>As such, they remain resolute in fighting the bill outside of Parliament after several attempts to have a level-headed debate about it proved futile due to the mass hysteria and fanaticism mobilised in support of the bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGhana\u2019s democracy is not a simple majoritarian democracy where the majority can impose their will or prejudices on a minority merely because they have numbers on their side. 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