…Sam George fires BBC news anchor
A BBC news anchor got an earful from the Member of Parliament for Ningo-Prampram, Hon. Sam George Nartey, when she decided to misquote the Bible in a devil’s advocacy against the anti-Gay Bill that the MP is co-sponsoring.
In response to the news anchor’s claim that Genesis 1:27 – God created both males and females in his image – means he intentionally created homosexuals and lesbians too, Sam George replied that God never created Adam and Steve.
“Well Clare, my Bill is not a religious Bill it is a Bill on cultural values, but if you want to go into the Bible, I’ll grant you that, Bible says God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve, it says, for this reason, a man shall leave his mother and father and cleave to his wife, it didn’t say cling to another man and if you want to read the Bible, don’t read just a part of it,” he slammed the bemused BBC anchor.
The deliberate religious angling of the discussion of the “promotion of proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values” Bill was not the doing of the MP, but the BBC news anchor.
Clare, the anchor, suddenly veered into a religious argument after Sam George had easily out-argued her on the legal and scientific implications of the Bill.
She first drew in the controversial position of the Pope of the Catholic Church, Francis, who last year called for homosexuals and lesbians to be allowed to marry and raise families.
The digression was a blow below the belt because Ghana’s anti-gay Bill has got nothing to do with the position of the so-called Vicar of Christ.
But Hon. Sam George Nartey obliged her the argument, pointing out that the Pope was entitled to his opinion and that that opinion is not even shared by all Catholics, including those in Ghana where the Catholic Bishops Conference is solidly behind the anti-gay Bill.
“Well the Pope has expressed his opinion, the Catholic Church has not taken a definitive decision,” Sam George said, adding “This Bill is supported by the Catholic Bishops Conference of Ghana.”
Meanwhile, Sam George dismissed claims by the BBC news anchor that the Bill promoted hatred for LGBTQI+ practitioners and advocates, and that it has divided Ghanaians, saying it is an unfortunate interpretation.
Hon. Sam George has previously, similarly, tackled another news anchor from CNN over the Bill which he is co-sponsoring with seven other MPs.
Ghana’s Parliament is very likely to pass the Bill, the Speaker of Parliament has hinted.