Moses Foh-Amoaning, the Executive Secretary of the National Coalition for Proper Human Sexual Rights and Family Values has stated categorically that they the anti-LGBTQI+ bill are ready to battle the Pro-LGBTQI in court.
According to him, both international law and per the 1992 Constitution, the human rights argument being propounded by the coalition has no legs.
Moses Foh-Amoaning on Tuesday, October 12, 2021 edition of Metro TV’s Good Evening Ghana program surmised that the stance held by the 18-member coalition has no place in law.
“The issue of same-sex rights was brought before 47 judges of the European Court of Human Rights. The court is the largest and most experienced human rights court in the whole world. The issue of same-sex rights took them two years.
“They looked at anthropology, looked at positive law, natural law. They went through everything and 47 of them were unanimous that LGBTQ+ rights do not belong to the international human rights law. And that if a particular country doesn’t admit of those rights, it is not breaching any international law or rule of equality or discrimination.
“That’s a matter of law so if you want to quote the human rights law, that’s the position. I’m challenging the professors to show me where the Supreme Court held that gender under the constitution means other than male or female or sex incorporates sexual orientation.
“If they want, they should go to the Supreme Court. In fact, we are ready with writs and prepared to meet them. It was for a strategic reason that we are only waiting for this law to be passed,” he stated.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Joseph Asare
