Former Deputy Minister of Health, Bernard Okoe-Boye, has said activities of the LGBTQ+ community could make humans go extinct.
He indicated that the practice goes against nature and so must not be accepted.
"If there are 100 marriages in Ghana and 70 out of the 100 produces children, humans will not go extinct but if you get 100 gay marriages, it is like you creating male and females dog, then you buy them, all of them will finish…" he said.
Speaking on Peace FM’s Kokroko show on October 15, the former legislator for Ledzokuku constituency said the anti-LGBTQ+ bill is not to hurt gays but it is to discourage other people from engaging in the act and sensitise Ghanaians.
"This bill is sensitising every Ghanaian that in case you don't know, there is a group of people who do such a thing. All we want in this country is not to hurt the guy who is practicing gayism but to discourage future generations or other people from walking that part..." he said in support of the anti-LGBT+ bill
He added LGBT+ activities must be discouraged because if majority of the people engage in these activities, human existence will be threatened.
Responding to issue raised by Professor Akoto Ampaw of Jesus Christ showing mercy and grace to sinners hence approving the activities of LGBTQ+, Dr. Okoe Boye said Christ did not come to endorse a normalised sin but to rescue sinners.
He added that the anti-LGBTQ+ bill is trying to rescue homosexuality and not to make it normal.
The Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill, 2021 seeks to criminalise Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex (LGBTQI+) activities in the country.
The international community and rights activists have widely condemned the bill, which has been submitted to Parliament by some Members of Parliament.