{"id":198157,"date":"2025-05-15T12:28:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T10:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-pushes-anti-lgbtq-bill-as-defense-of-family-values\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T12:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T10:28:11","slug":"ghana-pushes-anti-lgbtq-bill-as-defense-of-family-values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-pushes-anti-lgbtq-bill-as-defense-of-family-values\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana Pushes Anti-LGBTQ+ Bill as Defense of &#8216;Family Values&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\"><em>Ghana&#8217;s Parliament has reignited controversy with a its anti-LGBTQ+ bill, sparking intense debate on its impact on family values and human rights.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Lawmakers in\u00a0<a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/ghana\/t-64338684\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ghana<\/a>\u00a0earlier this month reintroduced an anti-LGBTQ+ bill that was passed by the country&#8217;s Parliament in February 2024, but not enacted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">The legislation, known as the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, called for prison terms of up to three years for engaging in same-sex sexual relations, and up to five years for those who engage&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505150081.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana&#8217;s Parliament has reignited controversy with a its anti-LGBTQ+ bill, sparking intense debate on its impact on family values and human rights. Lawmakers in\u00a0Ghana\u00a0earlier this month reintroduced an anti-LGBTQ+ bill that was passed by the country&#8217;s Parliament in February 2024, but not enacted. The legislation, known as the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":198158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00610877:34428f7b207e6bb719bc7f57789738ed:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,46407,7292,8027,5203,4508,4509,257,16296,254,10027],"class_list":["post-198157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-antilgbtq","tag-bill","tag-defense","tag-family","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-news","tag-pushes","tag-south-africa-today","tag-values"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00610877:34428f7b207e6bb719bc7f57789738ed:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}