Gov’t, GES Sneaks in Gay Agenda through Backdoor-Experts – Sexual education for 5-year-olds fingered as tool for LGBT agenda

Advocates and critics have raised red flags about the Ghanaian government adopting the Comprehensive Sexual Education (CSE) policy, saying it is a subtle agenda by the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) to sexualise children and push through a gay agenda.

Ghana through the Ghana Education Service (GES), recently adopted the sexual education school curriculum inspired by the IPPF and UNESCO to teach Ghanaian children from the age of 5 to 17 years a controversial sexuality curriculum.

According to experts, subtly embedded in the curriculum is an “obsessive” focus on how young Ghanaians can exert their rights to enjoy their sexuality including in acts such as anal sex and gay sex.

The National Coalition for Proper Human Sexual Rights and Family Values (CPRFV) have warned that this guideline is a subtle push for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) agenda of the IPPF.

Moses Foh-Amoaning, a strong advocate against the LGBT agenda and a spokesperson for CSRFV said the new sex education curriculum from first-graders is a “Clear LGBT Agenda…that work on the instincts and feelings of the child and make them feel it is nice”. In an Interview with Accra-based Joy FM, he called it the “Cradle to Grave „strategy.

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has argued that the modules in the curriculum would be age-specific, even though critics have questioned the rationale of introducing sex education at that young age, saying it is an attack on healthy family life and an attack on African family values.

Michelle Cretella, President of the American College of Paediatricians in a documentary titled “War on Children” published on YouTube in June 2019 by a civil society group called Comprehensivesexualityeducation.org, described the new approach to sexuality as “deeply concerning” and “violates parental rights”. She said the policy sexualises children and promotes a dangerous gender ideology that also undermines the parent-child relationships.

Also in the documentary, the President of South Africa’s Family Policy Institute, Errol Naido described it a horrifying, saying it is a “tool that is being used…”

Already, parents and civil society groups in Kenya, South African, Nigeria, Jamaica, Guatemala, Spain, Hawaii, Canada, the USA, among several other countries are protesting against their governments adopting the CSE. In Nigeria, a group calling itself Citizensgo has started a campaign to collect signatures to a petition to get the CSE discarded.

In a July 15, 2018 article posted on the online portal of the African region of the IPPF,  Archibald Adams, the Advocacy Coordinator of the Planned Parenthood Association of Ghana (PPAG) did not hide the fact that the current CSE was inspired by the IPPF, saying the CSE was fine-tuned in 2017 by some civil society groups including PPAG (the Ghanaian branch of IPPF) and “it is being used to develop curriculum for in and school adolescents as well as a training guide for out of school adolescents.”

However, investigations by Whatsup News shows that the IPPF is known worldwide to push controversial sexual agenda, for instance insisting that young people with HIV/AID has the right to have unprotected sex with their partners, if they so choose.

In 2010 IPPF published a book for young people titled “Health, Happy and Hot”. In the book, it described explicit sexuality for young people, such as the diverse ways they can derive sexual pleasure- including anal sex. This book was promoting the very acts that have been known as the breeding-grounds for HIV/AIDS.

“Sometimes people choose not to have safer sex. If this is something you and your partner agree to, then it is your choice. It is not always possible to talk to your partner(s) about or to practise safer sex — for example, maybe you know that your partner will get angry or aggressive, or you don’t have access to condoms or a safe place to have sex…” the IPPF book read.

Another paragraph in the book reads: “Your skin is the largest erogenous zone on your body, and your mind plays a big role in your desire for sex and sexual pleasure. Caress and lick your partner’s skin. Explore your partner’s body with your hands and mouth. Mix things up by using different kinds of touch from very soft to hard. Talk about or act out your fantasies. Talk dirty to them. Tickle, tease and make them feel good.”

The book is interspersed with images of homosexuals and lesbians in what has been described by critics as a subtle push for the gay agenda.

IPPF also recently produced a 30-minute animated documentary targeting 13 to 16-year-olds called “Sex on The Map”. In the documentary, young people are taught that any sexual act is okay as long as they deem it their choice and they enjoy it.

It is unclear if the GES intends to adopt some of these teaching tools from IPPF.

It appears, however, that the Director-General of the GES, Professor Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa shares in the underlining philosophy of the CSE guidelines which put sexual rights of pre-adolescents and adolescents in their own hands.

In his Executive Summary to Ghana’s CSE guidelines, Professor Opoku-Amankwa writes: “The selected topics cover the sexual and reproductive health topics…defined [by IPPF] as a systematic approach to equip young people with the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values they need to determine and enjoy their sexuality.”