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“Pretending gays don’t exist doesn’t change the fact that they do” - actress

Lydia Forson aired her views on the trending topic asking whether homosexuality should be legalized in the country.

Lydia, in a blog post which was captioned “The President on Homosexuality”, explained that the president was justified in his submission on Ghana’s position on legalizing homosexuality.

She believed that our outrage was not going to change the fact that people we know closely are gay and it was high time we faced reality and believe that homosexuals do exist.

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“Now I understand your anger if this is a practice you’re against, especially if it’s one your religion forbids.

But the presidents response does not in ANYWAY condone the act, in fact he may be equally against it.

But he wasn’t voted into power to enforce his own personal beliefs on all of us, he was voted to represent ALL the citizens of the country irrespective of their beliefs and practices.

Which is why he gave an intellectual response, devoid of emotions to that question.

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The law exist to protect ALL its citizens and not impose one’s personal beliefs and views on another.

So the president response is what anyone who understands history, law and the realities of the world we live in today, would say.

History should teach us all that every minority or group of people that feel oppressed, restricted etc. will someday find their voice, strength and the balls to demand equal treatment.

That’s just the way it is!

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Jews, women, Black people, interracial couples.

The president didn’t condone homosexuality he simply stated the FACT that at some point we’ll be forced to have this conversation, whether we want to or not; and it may not even be anytime soon or even in our life time.

But we have to reach the mental capacity needed to have these debates.

Which is why I don’t think it’s fair to constantly pressurize African leaders to taking a stand on this.

Where we are now as a country, all these developed countries were several decades ago, so we shouldn’t be forced to run when we’re just learning how to WALK.

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With that being said, your outrage isn’t going to change the fact that your friend, doctor, pastor (yep them too) lawyer etc. is GAY.

Pretending they don’t exist doesn’t change the FACT that they do.”

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