Ghana parliament leader said LGBTQ people are a pandemic “more than COVID-19”

Alban Bagbin wants to ban LGBTQ advocacy and promote conversion therapy in Ghana. Homosexuality is already illegal there.

Speaker Alban Bagbin
Photo: U.S. Embassy Ghana

During a meeting to promote an anti-LGBTQ bill, Ghana’s speaker of parliament, Alban Bagbin, said that being LGBTQ as a pandemic that is worse than COVID-19.

Bagbin compared “LGBTQI activities” with COVID-19 and said that it “must be fought by all of us.”

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“I can tell you that it is more than COVID-19, and I am happy that our beloved country, Ghana, is together in this,” Bagbin said, according to the Ghanaian news source City Newsroom.

“The president has spoken, our traditional leaders have spoken, our religious leaders have spoken together, and Ghanaians have spoken with one voice, and we don’t want to do anything that has to do with LGBTQ activities.”

LGBTQ sexual activity is already illegal in majority-Christian country and can be punished with up to three years in jail, but the “Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill 2021” would also criminalize any LGBTQ advocacy and promote conversion therapy, according to 76 Crimes.

Bagbin believes the bill will pass within the next six months and said he hope it can be used as a model for other countries with anti-LGBTQ agendas.

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