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Adultery is a more serious threat to family than LGBT – Akoto Ampaw
Private legal practitioner, Akoto Ampaw says the gravest threat to the family system and the value system in Ghana is adultery and the impregnation of teenagers by heterosexual males.
“This is obviously undeniable!” he said on Thursday before the Parliamentary Committee probing the Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill 2021.
He explained that adultery and the impregnation of teenagers, even though being the gravest of threats to the family system, have been allowed to fester and normalise with no action from legislators to check, especially the impregnation of teenagers.
Proponents of the Bill claim that the Bill must be passed to safeguard the concept of family in the Ghanaian setting.
According to them, should the activities of LGBTQ people be left unchecked, it shall “threaten the concept of family and the associated value systems that are central to the social structure of all ethnic groups in Ghana.”
However, Lawyer Akoto Ampaw believes otherwise.
He said further arguments that the family unit is a lifelong relationship are further flawed by the increasing number of divorce cases in the country.
“Do you note that adultery and the impregnation of teenagers by heterosexual males constitute a far graver threat to the family as a unit?
“This is obviously undeniable. Indeed, the idea of in the Bill that the family is a lifelong relationship or unit is clearly contradicted by the persistent and regular divorces that are lawful under the laws of Ghana,” he said.
Lawyer Akoto Ampaw is calling on Parliament to reject the “violent” Bill entirely.
