President has suggested a government-sponsored LGBTQ+ bill, as opposed to one led by private members.
According to him, making the anti-LGBTQ+ bill, which aims to criminalise homosexual practices and impose strict laws, a government-sponsored initiative would allow the country's cultural values to be integrated into various curricula taught to students.
He explained that this approach would remove the need for a separate bill aimed at enforcing family values in the country to be legislated.
Speaking to a delegation of Catholic bishops from the Ghana Catholic Bishops' Conference during a courtesy call on January 14, 2025, Mahama said, "I think it should not be a Private Member's Bill, but a government-sponsored one. "If we were teaching our values in schools, we wouldn't need to pass a bill to enforce our family values, and that is why I think more than even the family values bill, is us agreeing on a curriculum that inculcates these values into our children as they are growing up, so that we don't need to legislate it," he said.
