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Out Of Box Story – Homosexuals Will Soon Be Able To Marry In Ghana: They Have Rights To Their Activities Says New CHRAJ Boss

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The law is complex and no matter how it is construed, its interpretation can be stretched to give rights when the actual lawmakers may not have intended to do so.

I have laughed my ass off several times for hearing people claiming homosexuals have NO rights in Ghana based on the fact that the constitution of Ghana does not explicitly give them any. JOKERS! What most of these people have to realize is that, the law does not only give rights expressly, certain times, they are implied.

I am not very familiar with Ghanaian laws but still have enough knowledge to make this post…LOL… The argument that homsexuals have no right in Ghana has mostly been based on Chapter 6, article 104 of the Ghanian Criminal Code which prohibits “unnatural carnal knowledge”. This is defined to include consensual sexual intercourse between men.

The effect of this clause is that, it encourages discrimination and persecution against homosexuals on the basis of their identity and consensual sexual behaviour.

The above law is a criminal code which means the constitution of Ghana is supreme to it.  So what  the above law does is subjecting homosexuals to discrimination…

Article 17 of the constitution of Ghana however guarantees the right to freedom from discrimination. What this means is that, the constitution says you cannot discriminate against anyone for being homosexual (identity and sexual behaviour) whiles the criminal code says homosexualism by a stretch of the law is illegal.

These two laws are in conflict with each other and as I pointed out, the constitution is supreme  so automatically, it is the constitution that takes precedent.

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