Catholic Bishops Conference plans meeting Akufo-Addo over Anti-LGBTQ+ Bill - MyJoyOnline

The Secretary-General of the Catholic Bishops Conference, Reverend Father Clement Kwasi Adjei, says the Conference intends to meet President Akufo-Addo to discuss the motive behind his directive to Parliament to disist from transmitting the Anti-LGBTQ+ Bill for his assent.

In a letter addressed to Parliament on Monday, March 18, and signed by the Secretary to the President, Nana Bediatuo Asante, the Office of the President officially 'warned off' Parliament to refrain from transmitting the Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values, commonly referred to as the Anti-LGBTQ+ Bill, to President Akufo-Addo for his assent in light of two applications for an order of interlocutory injunction currently before the Supreme Court.

Read also: Don’t transmit the Anti-LGBTQ+ Bill to Akufo-Addo – Presidency to Parliament.

He asserts that the President should have allowed the bill to be transmitted and then decided whether or not he would assent to it

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