Human rights and God’s right - Who is right and who is wrong?

Human rights are fine rights, they underpin most laws globally; however, God’s right is an incontrovertible right. Indeed, jurisprudence, that is the study of the theory of law, has its basis in a moral order birthed by religious thought.

The strong sense of the dignity and the virtuousness of the human being was initiated by God who uttered the words, “Ye are gods; and all of you are the children of the Most High.”

Human rights, therefore, ensure that the dignity of the human being is not violated. However, the result of creating humans with a free will and plenty ingenuity (which I believe is one of the heartaches of creation), is the stretching of our thought processes to the extent of outrageousness.

Thus, humans use their ingenuity to classify most issues as human rights for big campaigns; and so currently, lesbian and gay rights are being championed by the West.

I say that God’s right is a heterosexual right. Period! As the creator and for his purposes, he created me to love Kweku, and by that procreate, relate and enrich the earth.

But humans have disregarded God’s right to heterosexual relations, re-orienting sex for intercourse with “oneself!”

By being disingenuous, some would want a dead world, with no procreation and by default, no life!

With sex and sexual orientation gaining a ranking under human rights, speaking freely against it becomes politically or socially wrong.

Bound to happen?

In November last year, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, in a “politically correct” manner, responded to the question about why homosexuality was still illegal in Ghana by Al Jazeera’s Jane Dutton.

For him, the issue was socio-cultural and so far, a strong coalition had not emerged to sway public opinion for a change in the law.

“Is it something you would get behind?”, the Al Jazeera interviewer asked, to which he responded: “I think it is something that is bound to happen.” “What’s going to provoke it?,” she persisted, to which the President mentioned civil society action and gave examples about how the same had been used in Europe in the past when the topic was then a taboo.

For him, if public opinion was strong enough, then homosexuality/lesbianism could become the norm in the country.

That push for the recognition of homosexual and lesbian rights would not be long in coming by clever Ghanaians backed by foreign donors. It will not be long before civil society organisations mobilise for a massive campaign on that.

And with the waning of values, when that stage is breached, it will not be long before the preponderance of public opinion sways for the legalisation of gay rights and an amendment of Section 104 of the Criminal Code 1960 (as amended by the Criminal Code Act, 2003) that criminalises “unnatural carnal knowledge”, provisions under which homosexuality is dealt with.

Railroaded?

Human rights are great subject areas. By them, laws are drafted to safeguard children, abused men and women in relationships and a lot more.

I am not a proponent of stoning homosexuals and lesbians. Nor am I in favour of the state hounding out lesbians, gays and activists promoting that orientation like Zambia has been doing.

I believe one’s sexual orientation should be one’s private affair, once it does not affect minors.

Indeed, we must not be railroaded into accepting practices that are not in sync with our being.

Just as President Akufo-Addo was pushed to say that gay rights were not on his agenda, soon the country would have to face enormous pressure to make a decision.

I know Mr President believes in God, judging from the all-white clad New Patriotic Party (NPP) supporters’ thanksgiving service attended by himself and other party bigwigs to commemorate his victory on December 7, 2016.

When the pressure builds, will the President sacrifice his faith for politically, socially and internationally correct rights that are inimical to health, morals and values?

For policy makers who are also Christians and would love to maintain the status quo, a question! Would you sacrifice your conscience and faith to be politically or socially right?