Where exactly in the Bible are Christians commanded to turn over gays to Caesar for punishment? – H Prempeh | 3News

Where exactly in the Bible are Christians commanded to turn over gay people to Caesar for punishment?” he wrote on is Facebook page.

Prof Prempeh further dared them to explain where or how the Constitution of Ghana permits or confers on the State the power to prescribe a monolithic sexual identity.

He says the more he hears the bishops speak on the anti-gay bill, the more he doubts that they have read or understood all the provisions of this bill.

His comments come at a time the Secretary General of the Catholic Bishops Conference, Reverend Father Clement Kwasi Adjei, told President Akufo-Addo to have a second view of his decision not to assent to the bill until after the Supreme Court has finished hearing the suits against the bill.

Reverend Father Clement Kwasi Adjei also told the president to uphold the constitution of the country in assigning to the bill.

“The way things are going, it is not the best.

The President must follow the law he swore to uphold when he was sworn into office,” he said told Accra-based Joy FM.

He added “The constitution is the supreme law of Ghana and any law that is inconsistent with any provision in the constitution, for the sake of its inconsistency is null and void.

“So how can you write a letter telling parliament not to transmit the bill to the presidency?

And in that constitution, any law enacted by parliament must be sent to the presidency,” he told host Aisha Ibrahim.

But in a Facebook post, Prof H Kwasi Prempeh, also a private legal practitioner said “Can the Catholic Bishops Conference tell us where or how the Constitution of Ghana permits or confers on the State the power to prescribe a monolithic sexual identity or orientation for all of society and to punish as criminals those who, for one reason or the other, do not or cannot conform to this state-imposed sexuality standard?

“They also should tell us what in the Constitution entitles the Ghanaian State to command adult citizens as to what persons they may or may not enter into consensual, adult romantic or other amorous relationships with?

How exactly is any of this an appropriate role for a non-theocratic State?

“The more I hear the Catholic Bishops Conference and other clergy on this matter the more I am left doubting that they have read or understood all the provisions of this bill and the more questions I have about the soundness or integrity of the theology that informs their shamefully uncritical embrace of this deeply inhumane and ill-conceived bill.”

He added “Besides, calling this the ‘Anti-LGBT’ bill, as we all typically do, papers over the fact that this is not a single-clause bill but a bill with lots of provisions, each of which must be looked at on its own terms.

Is the CBC saying that it supports all or most of the provisions in this bill?

Why must any President sign a bill into law if he or she objects fundamentally to one or more provisions of the bill?

The Speaker of Parliament and the Attorney-General ( Suit no. J1/12/2024) which process was served on the 19th of March 2024 and an injunction motion on notice seeking to restrain the Speaker from proceeding with the vetting and approval of the names of the persons submitted by His Excellency the President until the provisions of the constitution are satisfied.”