Raphaela
30 Sept 2024
What could be more hellish than what we’re living through? The belief that God will turn away from us as a country because of homosexuality is a very popular one among Christians thanks to Leviticus 18. Maybe religious people could go through all this post, which is really just a fraction of the troubles in this country, and tell the class what exactly they mean by “God will turn his face away from Ghana”.
I wonder what exactly people mean when they say God will punish Ghana if we accept homosexuality. As in Ghana is doing well and it’s when we say a resounding “YES” to homosexuality that the country will suddenly fall into ruin?
Our land and our water bodies are being destroyed; our water is unsafe for consumption and the existence of aquatic life, which makes all our food unsafe as well; protesting, which is a right, is being treated as an offence; arrested people are denied their right to bail and their right to speak with their lawyers; basic schools have woefully inadequate furniture and textbooks, leaving children sitting on the ground and using pavement blocks as tables; a major teaching hospital is crowdfunding to be able to build a pediatric unit; the army is violently and unnecessarily involved in civilian interactions; the police have no respect for constitutional rights of citizens; health service workers have not been paid their full salaries from 2020; mob violence and lynching continue to occur with no significant public address on the issue by members of parliament or heads of state; the rate of unemployment, poverty and homelessness in the country is high; and because of the socio-economic status of the country, Ghanaian passports are weak, so even leaving the country is a challenge.