Lead advocate of the National Coalition for Proper Human Sexual Rights and Family Values, Moses Foh-Amoaning, says the reintroduction of the bill as a public bill will resolve many of the challenges that have delayed its passage.
Speaking on JoyNews PM Express on Wednesday, he explained that several legal and procedural issues surrounding the bill stemmed from its status as a private member’s bill.
He argued that if government takes ownership of it and reintroduces it as a public bill, most of those concerns — including cost implications — would be cleared.
“When the bill is introduced as a public bill, it will solve a lot of issues,” he said.
He stressed that the bill was carefully thought through before being introduced, contrary to claims by critics that it sought to criminalise people.
“This bill was not just brought out. We thought through it. The LGBT movement and its propaganda have always been that, ‘Oh, you want to throw people in prison.’ We say, no. You think it’s a lifestyle, you want to glamorise it, that’s fine. We over here think that people who’ve got those challenges, and if they have those challenges, we help them,” he said.
Mr Foh-Amoaning noted that the bill even makes room for care and rehabilitation.
“So in the bill, we said that if you need care, treatment and support, or even during arrest, sentencing, or trial, even when you’re in prison and you agree that you need help, then you will be given. The law allows for flexible sentencing,” he explained.
