Proposed Comprehensive Sexuality Education Way to Introduce Homosexuality: Ghana Bishops

“The new Standard Based Curriculum being implemented has nothing to do with LGBT issues, masturbation or explicit display/labelling of intimate body parts,” reads GES statement seen by ACI Africa.

“GES wishes to assure the general public that no special sessions have been organized or will ever be organized by the GES to train students as advocates for sexual rights, let alone LGBT rights which are culturally, socially, legally, morally and religiously alien to Ghana,” GES has sought to clarify in a statement.

Beside Catholic Bishops, other religious leaders have also added their voices in opposing CSE in the West African country. 

According to myjoyonline, the Ghana Pentecostal and Charismatic Council (GPCC), an organisation made up of different church denominations in Ghana has described the introduction of CSE as “satanic” and called for its immediate withdrawal. 

Ghana’s Chief Imam Sheikh Dr. Osmanu Nuhu Sharubutu has also disputed the CSE saying it is “an attempt to hide behind educational reforms to brainwash the pupils with LGBT agenda.” 

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Ghana is not the only African country that has experienced resistance while trying to introduce sexuality education in the curriculum.

In Kenya, attempts to introduce CSE were also refuted by religious leaders who claimed that the program contains provisions on abortion and use of contraceptives and that parents had not also been informed about its introduction to the syllabus.

Magdalene Kahiu is a Kenyan journalist with passion in Church communication. She holds a Degree in Social Communications from the Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA). Currently, she works as a journalist for ACI Africa.