Human Rights Advocate and Founder of Arise for Justice, Texas Kadri Moro has on Monday embarked on a one-man demonstration through the principal streets of Cape Coast in the Central Region to agitate over the inclusion of a jail term in the Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values bill approved by the state's parliament.
The bill which its parliamentary affirmation has attracted massive backlash from several human right activists across the globe as well as the LGBTQ fraternity in Ghana, has propelled the Arise for Justice leader to equally add his voice in a grand style.
The demonstration which garnered massive attention from residents in the ancient capital, saw the demonstrator display various placards on a cross-like word.
Procession commenced from the Mfantsipim Junction through to the Kotokuraba Market, to Coronation, London Bridge, Ntin, to Kingsway, through to Chapel Square, all the way to the Castle and finally to the Jubilee Park where the media engaged the Human Rights Activist.
Addressing the media, Texas Kadri Moro opted of a more pragmatic sanction to be given to suspected LGBTQ persons, should parliament persistently resist to abolish the bill's imprisonment clause, either than imprisoning them to endanger fellow inmates who they can persuasively draw into the act frowned upon.
According to him, proponents of the bill seeks to justify action of the parliament by making a quick reference to Sodom and Gomorrah in the Bible and Quran.
But stressed that ironically, the same Bible and Quran states unequivocally that idolatry is the worst sin man can commit against God, as enshrined in Quran 4:48 and Quran 31:13, same as in Exodus 22:20 and Deuteronomy 17:2-5 in the Bible.
He quizzed to find out why idol worshipping isn't criminalized in Ghana.
The Human Rights Advocate further argued that another grave sin the Bible and Quran prescribes to be punishable by death is adultery as cited in Leviticus 20:10 and Deuteronomy 22:22 in the Bible.
He added that yet, while adulterers and adulteresses are breaking the marriage of couples, with fornicators breeding street children, teenage pregnancies, and school drop-outs, young person's undesire to marry in contemporary life is widely disturbing.
Consequently, perpetrators of these sins are all left of the hook of law only for persons of LGBTQ to be victimized.
However, the bill which has sparked diverse agitations is yet to be signed by the president of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo to be passed into law.
Sompaonline.com/Eric Annan