{"id":233420,"date":"2026-05-16T04:39:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T02:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-rushed-passage-of-family-values-bill-may-deepen-division-sda-church\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T04:39:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T02:39:53","slug":"ghana-rushed-passage-of-family-values-bill-may-deepen-division-sda-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-rushed-passage-of-family-values-bill-may-deepen-division-sda-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Rushed Passage of Family Values Bill May Deepen Division &#8211; &#8211; Sda Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The Seventh-day Adventist Church has called for intensified public education on the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, urging that Ghanaians be adequately informed about its implications before it is passed into law.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">The Vice-President of the General Conference of the church, Pastor Professor Roberts Osei-Bonsu, said broad public sensitisation would yield better results than rushing Parliament to pass the bill and for the President to assent to it without a clear understanding of its&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605150764.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>The Seventh-day Adventist Church has called for intensified public education on the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, urging that Ghanaians be adequately informed about its implications before it is passed into law. The Vice-President of the General Conference of the church, Pastor Professor Roberts Osei-Bonsu, said broad public sensitisation would yield better results [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":233421,"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":[258,256,7292,6581,7683,13653,5203,4508,4509,257,10527,11818,29523,254,10027],"class_list":["post-233420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bill","tag-church","tag-deepen","tag-division","tag-family","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-news","tag-passage","tag-rushed","tag-sda","tag-south-africa-today","tag-values"],"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\/233420","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=233420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}