Charismatic Council threatens to vote out any gov't who implements Comprehensive Sexuality Programme

Ghana Pentecostal and Charismatic Council has threatened to vote out any political leadership that implements the Comprehensive Sexual Education Programme for basic schools in the country.

According to the Council, they will not accept the new programme because its content is contrary to the teachings of the scriptures.

The Programme is already introduced to pupils aged 4 to empower them against sexual harassment. 

President for the Council, Rev. Dr. Paul Frimpong-Manso speaking to Joy FM said, " We the Ghana Pentecostal and Charismatic Council we are totally opposed to it, none of our teachers will teach that, we will walk our children out and any government who will promote it, it will be a tool for them to walk out, we train people to bring leadership already corruption is destroying our country, we have many diseases and we have to find ways of solving them not teaching people how to be gays and lesbians which is contrary to the scriptures.."

Some parents and civil society groups have also opposed the implementation of the new programme for basic schools.

Beginning next year, pupils in all public schools, including 4-year-olds will be given Comprehensive Sexuality Education.

Officials say the subject content would, however, be age-appropriate, so the toddlers would be empowered with values that would protect them from sexual harassment.

Law lecturer and fierce critic of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) movement, Moses Foh-Amoaning, has also slammed the introduction of the Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) in Ghanaian public schools.

Mr Foh-Amoaning, who is also the Executive Secretary and the Spokesperson for the National Coalition for Proper Human Sexual Rights and Family Values, said some texts and modules in the curriculum that will guide the CSE programme in Ghana resonate with LGBT activism.

“I feel a bit of pity for…the Director-General of the Ghana Education Service [Prof Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa] even the Ministry [of Education] and a lot of other Ghanaians who have been made a part of this clear LGBT agenda,”

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