{"id":214632,"date":"2025-11-23T21:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T19:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-ill-assent-to-lgbtq-bill-without-hesitation-if-prez-assures\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T21:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T19:32:10","slug":"ghana-ill-assent-to-lgbtq-bill-without-hesitation-if-prez-assures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-ill-assent-to-lgbtq-bill-without-hesitation-if-prez-assures\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: I&#8217;ll Assent to LGBTQ Bill Without Hesitation If&#8230;Prez Assures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">President John Dramani Mahama has assured that he would not hesitate to assent to the Proper Human Sexual Rights and Families Values Bill if Parliament passes it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">&#8220;Marriage is between man and woman. A person&#8217;s gender is determined at birth. Family is the foundation of our nation and creation. There are no questions or equivocations about what we believe in,&#8221; President Mahama stated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">He added that the government was fully aligned with the Christian Council of Ghana (CCG) in upholding moral values&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511200722.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>President John Dramani Mahama has assured that he would not hesitate to assent to the Proper Human Sexual Rights and Families Values Bill if Parliament passes it. &#8220;Marriage is between man and woman. A person&#8217;s gender is determined at birth. Family is the foundation of our nation and creation. There are no questions or equivocations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":214633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,27715,8224,7292,4508,4509,52941,52942,7283,16309,257,254],"class_list":["post-214632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-assent","tag-assures","tag-bill","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-hesitation","tag-if-prez","tag-ill","tag-lgbtq","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214632","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=214632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}