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USA to Support Ghana on Gay Rights Legislation

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  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    A Taxi driver picks up a nun. She gets into the cab, and the cab driver won’t stop staring at her.

    She asks him why is he staring and he replies, “I have a question to ask you but I don’t want to offend you.”

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  • alfa-alfa 10 years ago

    This is shocking news that the U.S., struggling with the huge rejection of the Gay and Lesbian propositions at the polls, is proposing to clamp that odious malady of homosexuality and its attendant dangers on Ghana.

    In the ...
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  • Kponyo 10 years ago

    Very good article alfa. But please next time when you write, expand or make your points more explicict so that the majority of lesser informed readers on Ghanaweb will get to understand what you are driving at. For instance, ...
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  • GHANABA 10 years ago

    IF THE SUPREME COURT GOES AGAINST THE WILL OF THE GHANAIAN POPULACE AND LEGALISE HOMOSEXUALITY, "WE" AND I EMPHASISE "WE" WILL BURN THAT SUPREME COURT BUILDING DOWN. I CAN ASSURE YOU WE WILL DO IT.A FEW OF US WILL DIE IN THE ...
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  • Jingo Bell 10 years ago

    Why would Obama so eager to force homosexuality on Ghanaians? Ghana does not need homosexual rights. Evil has no rights.
    If Obama wants to help Ghana, he should help to prevent our governments to steal Ghana's money to buy e ...
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  • NON-ALIGNED 10 years ago

    I thought the late Atta Mills made Ghana's position clear on this matter.............Atta Mills said the UK could not impose its values on Ghana and he would never legalize homosexuality. I believe same applies to the US. Or ...
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  • papi 10 years ago

    i think some gays should be hunged in ghana to send a very loud message to the fukcn dudes called americans that we will never and ever accept such distastful and sick culture. we should not sit and talk alone we must act.

  • NON-ALIGNED 10 years ago

    Papai, I don't think that is the answer. I'm afraid killing others for their beliefs which harms no one is NOT the way forward.

    Are you going to then go on killing, killing and then what? I guess you would not like anyone ...
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  • NPK 10 years ago

    No Ghanaian should accept any laws for gays in Ghana. Our cultures and tradition forbid this behavior. Our Chiefs and traditional laws over ride any laws

  • Ernest 10 years ago

    No leader of Ghana should make mistake to bring gay issue again to us to even discuss. we should not even talk about it.

    We cannot change order of nature period. such leaders should be ready to kill us all else we will cha ...
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  • Parker 10 years ago

    This is just a formality to put it on paper, our leaders have already sold us out don't waste your breath on this issue. Legislation supercede any traditional laws.

  • JAMES 10 years ago

    LET THEM TRY.........I WILL GO HEAD CUTTING SPREE IN GHANA
    FOOLISH AMERICANS

  • 4 Year Old 10 years ago

    All homosexuals should evacuate Ghana or we start to eject them by force. America can have all the gays in the world if it so wishes.

  • DK 10 years ago

    Tell the Americans to Stick Their Heads Where the Sun Don't Shine. We are heirs of a rich culture that frowns on homosexuality. What our people need is access to good and affordable healthcare, education, water and infrastruc ...
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  • VICKY LEE BENTON 10 years ago

    WE DO NOT NEED ANY COUNTRY TO HANDLE OUR DOMESTIC ISSUES. WE ARE A SOVEREIGN COUNTRY. THE COLONIALISM IS OVER. END OF STORY.

  • BUGA BUGA ATUGUBA 10 years ago

    Mahama:
    Is this the price Ghana has to pay for posing in front of CNN logo?
    Be aware that if you make the mistake of passing any gay rights legislation, the 77 gods and ancestors of Ghana shall overthrow you!!!!!

  • Kwobia,Toronto 10 years ago

    Why do people of European ancestry always assume that peoples of sub -Saharan ancestry always have to be converted to be like them?
    Has anyone ever asked the opinions of peoples of this region what they think of gays and le ...
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  • Lord Listowell 10 years ago

    Don't mind the European man my friend they're just sexually frustrated . There women are too busy being independent to worry about having sex . It's the Arab and middle eastern Muslim man you need to worry about . Believe you ...
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  • ALHAJI 10 years ago

    if u mahama don't kno way u come implement this lunatic right,i sear to god i wil kill u alive,folish man.

  • KW PRAT 10 years ago

    LAST FOOL IN GHANA -IF ITS REALLY TRUE

  • peace 10 years ago

    did stupid mahama want gays in Ghana and exchange for us investment u dead pepeni kromfo

  • HANNIBAL(Blessed by God) 10 years ago

    The White Americans can't even restart their government or rejuvenate their economy, and they want to promote homosexuality in Ghana. Any White gay rights activist found in Ghana/Africa should be killed.

  • KW PRAT 10 years ago

    this MAHAMA administration ..hmmmmmmm

  • Prosper Amenuvor 10 years ago

    USA will be displaying its hypocracy towards Africa by helping in gay rights but ignoring essential services which will bring the country forward,Areas such as Health delivery, Construction of feeder roads, payment of deferre ...
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  • NKWASIASEM 10 years ago

    WE DO NOT WANT GAYS RIGHT IN GHANA. THIS IS STUPID ANY BODY WHO WILL SUPORT THIS WILL GO TO HELL. GOD HATE GAYS THEY ARE DIRTY. GOD SAID HE WILL DISTROY THEM. GHANA, OPEN UR EYES THIS GAY PEOPLES ARE DISTROYING THE WORLD AND ...
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  • Anagli George 10 years ago

    Ghana is God-loving,therefore, we will never embrace that abomination in JESUS name. But if any leader tries to contradict Ghanaians' opinion, he or she will regret bitterly in JESUS name............

  • Okyere Emmanuel (ASEC) 10 years ago

    very bad

  • Duah 10 years ago

    Ghana is treading on the verge of death.I wish that civil societies can stand up against any plan of gay rights in our motherland Ghana. It is a taboo that must be resisted in all fronts.This is against procreation and must n ...
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  • GHANABA 10 years ago

    .........it becomes the first Ghanaian Government /Party to impose such a sacrilege on the nation.

  • kaketonti 10 years ago

    Cameron,Obama if you were gay could you have enjoy your wives virgina and brought forth children!IDIOTS

  • Jingo Bell 10 years ago

    Obama wants to force satanic homosexuality on Ghanaians and Africans as a whole. Nigeria has passed anti gay legislation in Nigeria. Why cann't our legislators do the same thing?

    I don't understand Obama at all on this iss ...
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  • NZO KOJO EKANGAKI 10 years ago

    NO WAY FOR SODOMY IN GHANA.IT IS EVIL,ABOMINABLE AND ABHORENT.