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Life in the shadows: Living as a homosexual in Ghana

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  • INDIAN SPRITUALIST IN GHANA 7 years ago

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  • sanjay - Abu Dhabi 7 years ago

    we will kill any one who is practicing this calamity, even a pig will not do this, so if any one is doing this kind of things, a pig is better than that person, kill them all

  • Freeman 7 years ago

    Sanjay, you're very arrogant and ignorant. You think you're holier than the LBGTs but you're a mere hypocrite. The law will deal squarely with you if you murder or even attack any homosexual. Ghana is a free and secular count ...
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  • Asafo Agldza 7 years ago

    Yes, no one can stop any body from doing what he/she wants but God says homosexuality and lesbianism are abomination to HIM. We don't want it in Ghana and it will not be acknowledged today neither tomorrow therefore those who ...
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  • Yaw Yeboah 7 years ago

    Asafo, I fully agree with your comments.

  • kosh 7 years ago

    i honestly pray for all of you if there is even God for condenming this brave people,you with your sad lives can not be even 1percent as brave as this people who with ALL this amount of homophobia,discrimination and harrasmen ...
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  • Ewuraadjoa 7 years ago

    I'm Ghanaian living in America and honestly most of these comments posted here just shows how close-minded and ignorant Africans can be. Who care's how someone lives their life? Their way of live should not affect how YOU sho ...
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  • Sensible 7 years ago

    I also live in America, and even common sense can tell you it doesn't matter where you were born or where you live, right is always right, and wrong always wrong. If you were born in Nazi Germany would killing Jews be right o ...
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  • KONKONSA 7 years ago

    You are such an idiot. All your claims are at best pedestrain gossip. The bible made America great??
    You need a proper education. You are responding to a superior argument with unsubstantiated drivel. Its not your place to ...
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  • Sensible 7 years ago

    Pedestrian gossip? Wow. FYI I am 27, I have masters degree, and you are an idiot. Seriously lol? You don't even need an education to tell you how your body was designed! Are you familiar with the Human Genome Project? Good lu ...
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  • I'm a gay 7 years ago

    You're an idiot, it doesn't matter what you think you're imaginary man in the sky thinks. It's a human right, and that's something no religion should impede on. You people are so brainwashed you fail to see how your religion ...
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  • Asea Ho 7 years ago

    God also says stealing (corruption/connection), fornication, gossiping, idol worship, adulatory, bribery and extortion are sinful and distasteful to him. Have you finish crushing people who commit such sins?

  • k, no problem, a 7 years ago

    You media should find something better to talk about

  • This is shameful 7 years ago

    Yes I couldn't agree more

  • Gays and lesbianism is dirty and dirt 7 years ago

    Kill the batie

  • afofranto 7 years ago

    siasem nea. 3twe ne koti dedeeede womp3. trumu koode na barima wop3 ohhhhhh woy3 kwasia papa. dont forget sodom and gomorrah. if ghana dares legalise the madness of a right. isis or boko haram will never let us live in peace.

  • Joseph.Cabo Verde ilslands 7 years ago

    Remember Sodom and Gomorrah why Ghanaians will allowed homosexual to be practicing in Ghana is a curse upon the nation.ABOMINATION.You wil not feel free in Ghana as a homosexual.God created man and woman .Homosexual is the w ...
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  • Dan 7 years ago

    The men and women of Sodom and Gomorrah attacked two male angels and were destroyed for showing inhospitality towards the male couple. So according to the tale, regions that harm same-sex couples should be wiped out. Adam and ...
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  • kk 7 years ago

    Funny you are twisting the story to suit your behavior but you turned out to expose either ignorance or maybe immorality. Word!!!

  • kosh 7 years ago

    i think homophobic people like you are ones twisting the story to suit your ignorant believes,why dont you make ghana a theocracy,what is freedom of worship doing in our constitution..how about not all of us believed in this ...
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  • Dan 7 years ago

    The story was originally twisted to persecute homosexuals because the second half of the story is about Lot having incest with his two daughters.

  • Arusha 7 years ago

    Stupid article. Joy news sucks!

  • Kwaku 7 years ago

    Kill all Gays in Ghana full stop !!!!!

  • ST. SIMPLE 7 years ago

    töricht Artikel, Dummheit und Unsterblichkeit auf dem höchsten Gipfel.

  • ST. SIMPLE 7 years ago

    foolish article, stupidity and immortality at the highest peak.

  • Yaw Yeboah 7 years ago

    Yes, I fully agree with your opinion.

  • chris-elymas 7 years ago

    If they claim everyone has the right to do what he/she wants then what about someone who wants to sniff coke, heroin, wee, kill, defile, rape etc? The bible says everyone has the right to do anything but not everything that i ...
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  • Ewura Esi 7 years ago

    What is your problem you all hypocrites.

    Do you even know which Lesbian your mothers and sistas fuck with when they go to work, church or market.

    Lesbian for life!!!!!

  • Mmmmm 7 years ago

    Are you normal??????

  • Onipaba Of Akyem Maase 7 years ago

    Aboa beast. Don't come near my kids for I will kill you. Kwaseakwa. False genetic expression. Odwan. I've warned you. You and your mates will be killed. Just come out and see.

  • kosh 7 years ago

    all this comments coming from someone im guessing have some school education Onipa OF Akyem Maase,knows how to read and write is very sad,what exactly is your kids got to do with this,why is it your business what someones se ...
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  • your borders are now open 7 years ago

    Enjoy

  • GHANASON 7 years ago

    nonsense. NO TO HOMO IN GHANA.

  • Yaw Imhotep- London 7 years ago

    Gayism and lesbianism is a disexual act. This is because the anus is not part of the sexual organs. The sexual organs are the vagina and the penis. The supreme being put them there so that we could procreat. Gayism is a psych ...
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  • kosh 7 years ago

    Yaw Imhotep-london with all your travels and living in the uk as your profile says,it didnt make any different to your thinking and understanding of the world and your ignorance towards gay people,your thinking is not changed ...
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  • Kobinadu 7 years ago

    The practice should not be encouraged because it is demonic and always destroys those who engage in it. However it is my considered view that those who practise it are victims who need help. The Church should be the primary w ...
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  • kosh 7 years ago

    its a strange place to be,seeing people who think they are saying something intelligent but you know its all just extreme lack of knowledge,homosexuality is not a practice...if it was there would not be any homosexual because ...
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  • Dan 7 years ago

    Two male angels were attacked and the cities were destroyed for trying to harm the male couple. the crime of inhospitality - so regions that harm gay couples should be wiped out according to the tale.

  • Tilly 7 years ago

    Kobinadu, I very much agree with you. These people have believed a lie about themselves and do need help. Most of them are nice people. Something happened to them along their life journey which opened the door for lies to cre ...
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  • Niibi 7 years ago

    “Mahama should be bold and tell the world, everybody has rights…because I don’t think anyone must be stopped from doing what he or she wants to do. If he is able to do that I think we also can come out proud and tall” ...
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  • KONKONSA 7 years ago

    Another Moron! What is a sin?
    If the two of you agree to indulge sexually without regard for the genetic mutations and its outcomes then who am I to judge?? Go on do it!
    In any case was that your god who placed just 2 peopl ...
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  • akwasi owusu 7 years ago

    in Leviticus chapter 19 verses 1 going, the Bible declares that the standard of God is HOLINESS. None of us have the ability to change the standard of God. these are some sexual sins that every child of God must avoid.
    1.Lev ...
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  • Do you need some more money from 7 years ago

    The saddest thing to see is so many ghanian that are unwanted & so many that have lost all hope of ever being able to marry or even wanting to they have wanted to kill africans lessen their numbers & have wanted it bad & this ...
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  • ============= 7 years ago

    FIRE BURN ALL GAYS AND LESBIANS LIVING IN GHANA. IF THEY ARE THAT PROUD OF THEIR LIFESTYLES THEY SHOULD COME OUT AND SAY WHAT THEY ARE. FOOLS

  • obi 7 years ago

    if they are men and women why cant they make it openly ,they ll be destroyed 4 inhospitality as a powerful religious nation in seconds

  • abaa-bii abuzotyel 7 years ago

    Let the gays go to where they are accepted not anywhere in Ghana here. period.

  • Bretuoba KFB 7 years ago

    Can you please write your name next time.Anka wo beti gbeee.Practise your deviant moronic ideas with Obama.

  • Jojo 7 years ago

    Freedom and equality could NEVER mean "anyone can do whatever he wants." This would make any nation a cesspool of lawless perverts! But this is the fundamental error of this perversion ~ it argues for morality, or, "right/wro ...
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  • Kpakpo, US 7 years ago

    You see, you can do whatever you please in your house; steal, rape, kill, abuse children, drink urine, do drugs etc. You get my point, but that is not what NATURE has shown as NORMAL or TRUE. Every abiding LAW we have is from ...
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  • KONKONSA 7 years ago

    Every abiding law we have is from the bible??? Oh so you think humans had no guidance before the nameless authors of that bible came just 2000 years ago???
    You are living in a fool's paradise. Think big!

  • Jafuku 7 years ago

    Who made man's mind? Every moral law finds its basis in God, who existed before the Bible. So how did God communicate with men before the Bible? The Bible tells us by dreams, visions, etc. God is big enough to make Himself cl ...
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  • Kpakpo, US 7 years ago

    Leave Ghana alone and respect our Constitution. This is just WRONG, adopting kids to justify a manufactured marriage. The so call justices of the USA are ordinary humans. They have university degrees like myself making un-God ...
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  • mame 7 years ago

    Live this ass gays alone

  • Kofi Ampoma (alais ) kofi Ghana 7 years ago

    Have you seen what is happening in America about the transgender bathroom by Obama. Do you want someone life wishes put the whole country into chaos. Can you tell me any child born and can be identify by 5the doctor or midwi ...
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  • Kweku 7 years ago

    There are so many ignorant people in Ghana. Have you even spoken to a gay person before to see how broken and hurt they feel before you start with your harsh hypocritical comments? Of course, you will use the bible to defend ...
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  • kwabena 7 years ago

    God is against gay & lesbian practice 1 Corin.6:9 Those who practice it cannot enter the kingdom of God. People may think they can do what ever they like with their but whether they like it or not judgement day is waiting fo ...
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  • bindigah 7 years ago

    I think Gays need serious lashes every morning to wake them up

  • yaw 7 years ago

    well, as a bisexual man myself, i fink d media reportage lacked d real facts. its nt all homos dat act as d opp sex. der aa several branches to d act. next tym, d media shd go in proper search 4 d facts 2 inform.

  • Reuben 7 years ago

    I think that we should be spared this madness, Even animals do not do this in their kingdom.

  • ewurama 7 years ago

    I am Lesbean

  • ewurakua 7 years ago

    I am lesbeaj

  • tina 7 years ago

    homosexual if illegal, Is to have its punishment sanctioned to It just like other crimes like stealing. in the bible was it stated that homosexuality is the greatest sin? bigggg no. it is a sin just like adultery, fornication ...
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