Reactions to comments on CSE: Keep your word! … Clergy urge President
Some religious leaders have commended President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for the assurance that the Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) will not be introduced in the school curricula.
According to them, the assurance from the President that “there is no way for CSE’’ at a church service at Saint Cyprian’s Anglican Cathedral in Kumasi last Sunday, should put to rest the controversy.
The religious leaders gave the commendation in separate interviews with the Ghanaian Times in Accra yesterday.
The Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church Ghana, Rt Rev. Dr Paul Kwabena Boafo, said, the church appreciated the comments of the President.
He said such remarks showed that there would be no introduction of such curriculum in the syllabus.
Bishop Boafo explained that the church was not against sexual education, adding that it was a good thing for the children to be groomed through education but was against the mixture of foreign materials.
“Sexual education is good, but we are against the foreign material being introduced into it,” he added.
He urged the President to stand by his word and ensure such curriculum in the syllabus was not allowed in school.
The President of the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference, Most Reverend Philip Naameh said, there would be an engagement with the President on the issue soon.
He said it is difficult to know whether the President’s remarks on the issue recently were a fact, or to cool tempers.
Most Rev. Naameh recounted that there were different groups who were lobbying to bring into the country Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, Transgender, and Queer (LBGTQ) ideologies, stating that it was inappropriate.
The church, Islam and the traditionalists, he said were against the LBGTQ, stressing that there was the need to protect values.
He said sexuality is for people who are married and those who are not married have no business in it.
The Accra Diocesan Bishop of the Anglican Church, Rt Rev. Daniel Sylvanus Mensah Tortorsaid he supports the stand taken by the President not to allow CSE.
He said the President should stand by his words not to allow such agenda under his watch and it should not be a political talk.
Ghanaians, he said should not accept the CSE in schools, alleging that the LBGTQ was behind the efforts to introduce it in the country.
Bishop Torto said such education would affect the growth of the children, if accepted in schools.
Alhaji Khuzaiman Osman, the Personal Assistant to the National Chief Imam, Sheikh Osman Nuhu Sharabutu commendedthe President for his position, stating that they consider it as a good gesture.
“It is encouraging to know that he has made a clear statement on the issue and hope he would not go back,” he added.
Alhaji Osman who is also the Director of Youth and Interfaith Programmes at the office of the National Chief Imam, said, those pushing for the agenda of LGBTQ should have in mind that it was against the culture of the people.
“We pray that those who are pursuing this agenda would understand our culture, the way we live and our values,” he added.
By ANITA NYARKO-YIRENKYI
