Human Rights Vs. Gay Rights: Which Should We Promote?

By David Kissi Omari

Indeed we have a responsibility to educate others on their human rights and freedoms as well as respect them. We can only do this when we first educate ourselves on the subject so we can teach others.

In this book, the author does a fine job by helping us learn the thirty human rights of all mankind and the need to respect them.

In fact, the book makes us to understand that we are all entitled to all the thirty human rights because we are humans not due to our sexual orientation. He has also helped us to understand to some extent how homosexuality develops and some signs to spot for homosexual proclivities.

He has also done a tremendous work of showing us Gods (Allah) position on homosexuality by making references from both the Holy Bible and the noble Quran.

If we need the right answer to the question, Human rights versus gay rights: which should we promote? then this book is a must read.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris UK
• Release date: Apr 9, 2015
• ISBN: 9781499096354

David Kissi Omari

The author completed the University of Ghana–Legon with bachelor of arts degree in economics and sociology. He also holds international diploma in financial management, auditing, and taxation from the Institute of Commercial Management in the United Kingdom. He has over the years developed interest in making human rights a reality in our communities. He has made series of presentations on insurance, investments, human rights, and homosexuality in churches and schools in Ghana and Nigeria. He has also demonstrated his skills in writing articles, scholarship schemes, tutoring students and his peers, and contributing to and facilitating youth programs and seminars. Currently, he is working with the Ghana Education Service at Denu in the Volta Region of Ghana, West Africa. He also holds a postgraduate qualification in economics education. As a member of Church of Christ, he has served on various committees and ministries in the church in his local congregation. Through his selfless dedication, a lot of young men and women were able to experience the love of God in their lives. Praises be to Jehovah! As a member of the Soul Saving Squad, the author is travelled to deprived areas to share God’s word and to make the underprivileged happy.

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CONTENTS

About The Author

Foreword

Acknowledgement

Introduction

Chapter 1: What Are Human Rights?

Chapter 2: The Thirty (30) Human Rights

Chapter 3: The Need for Human Rights

Chapter 4: What Is Homosexuality?

Chapter 5: What Are ‘Gay Rights’?

Chapter 6: Why Men Marry Men (MMM) and Women Marry Women (WMW)?

Chapter 7: Signs of Homosexuality

Chapter 8: How Does a Person Become a Homosexual?

Chapter 9: Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and ‘Gay Rights’

Chapter 10: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Homosexuality

Conclusion

Bibliography

Dedication

This work is dedicated to my parents, Mr Francis Kwame Omari Asiamah and Mrs Margaret Kissi Omari.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

The author completed the Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics and Sociology from the University of Ghana, Legon. He also holds Single Subject International Diploma in Financial Management, Auditing and Taxation from the Institute of Commercial Management in the United Kingdom.

He has over the years developed interest in making human rights a reality in our communities. He has made a series of presentations on insurance, investments, human rights, and homosexuality in churches and schools in Ghana and Nigeria.

He has also demonstrated his skills in writing articles, scholarship schemes, tutoring students and his peers, and contributing to and facilitating youth programmes and seminars. Currently, he is working with the Ghana Education Service at Denu in the Volta Region of Ghana, West Africa. He is also planning to pursue higher academic studies.

As a member of Church of Christ, he has served on various committees and ministries in the church in his local congregation. Through his selfless dedication, a lot of young men and women were able to experience the love of God in their lives. Praises be to Jehovah! As a member of the Soul Saving Squad, the author has travelled to deprived areas to share God’s Word and to make the underprivileged happy.

FOREWORD

This book has been made possible through long and continuous research with the following objectives:

• To help people adopt an attitude of teaching people to see the reason for not engaging in acts of homosexuality rather than subjecting people to inhuman treatment because of their sexual orientation;

• To provide a more realistic picture of homosexuality and help demystify it;

• To educate people on their fundamental human rights;

• To help teachers, parents, students, and everyone to make informed choices in life as far as the concepts of homosexuality and human rights are concerned;

• To clear the confusion surrounding the relationship between fundamental human rights and ‘gay rights’.

We are living in a time when human rights have been misconstrued and consciously or unconsciously misapplied. Many people are making deliberate attempts to misdefine and hide behind human rights to perpetuate sexual perversion. That is to say, they are claiming to have the right to pervert sexuality or better still express their sexual orientation towards any creature, dead or alive, even when it is naturally weird.

Certainly, when one carefully observes plants and animals whether in the forest or at home, it is uncommon to see the male crossing the male or the female crossing the female. It is even difficult to see the coitus of some animals. Even animals respect sexuality and coitus (refer the Holy Koran, Sura Al-ankaboot 29: 28–30). Human beings, on the other hand, born in the likeness of God and blessed with all wisdom, knowledge, and creativity treat sexuality as symbols which can be altered and replaced. One person who wakes up one morning unsatisfied with his or her sexuality decides to play a sex role naturally inconsistent with his or her sexual anatomy. Men desire to lie with men and women desire to lie with women. In order to consolidate and legitimise their unnatural sexual behaviour, they are calling for legal protection by linking their shameful act (homosexuality) to one of the highly respected international treaties for human rights – that it is their human right to be homosexual and freely practise it. Something is absolutely wrong with the human mind.

This is exactly what this book seeks to address – the link between gay rights and human rights. This book provides an answer to a question that has been begging for an answer for years – the question: Where do we draw the line between human rights and gay rights?

The import of this book is to bring out graphically the relationship between human rights and gay rights. It clearly demonstrates how homosexuality and its concomitant gay rights are foreign to the ‘originality’ of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

To the young men and women who are living in this time and in this circumstance of sexual perversion and want to equip themselves on how to live a sexually decent life and also to teach people the relationship between human rights and ‘gay rights’, this book is a must read. I recommend it to you.

David Kissi Omari

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

This work would not have been possible without the strength and wisdom of the Almighty God. I thank Him so much.

I thank Lawyer (Nana) Akwasi Bosompem for his most cherished guidance and editing, which have put this book in perfect shape and in its proper perspective and context. To you, Lawyer (Elder) Danso Acheampong, CEO of Primus Law Company, I owe you a lot of thanks for your constructive criticisms. God replenish all that you lost in proofreading the manuscript.

I would like to thank the members of Church of Christ at Kotobabi Down, opp. Awotse Video Centre, for their persistent encouragement to write a book on the subject of human rights and homosexuality. Without them it would have been impossible to write this book. Brethren, I realised I had to write this book only after I had lectured on the subject matter. You gave me the platform to realise my inherent potentials, and God richly bless all and sundry.

I am grateful to Xlibris Publishing Incorporated for their rare and unique effort to make this publication transit from a mirage to a reality. Maureen, Val, Angelica, Ely, and all the staff who were involved, thanks for your indispensable time and patience in the journey of getting this book published.

I am deeply grateful to the following persons: Mr and Mrs Isaac Kpodzro, Philomena Osafo, Constance Osafo, and Rahel Sena.

Thanks for your words of encouragement and persistent advice to put my thoughts into documented words for people to benefit. Indeed, you helped me pull through. I am deeply indebted to you. For you, Rahel Sena, I thank you for your selfless dedication in getting the manuscript printed for further editing. How can I forget Constance Osafo (Sister Conie)? I thank you for the financial support in getting this book where it is today.

This Book Has a Message for the Reader

Everything is permissible (allowable and lawful) for me; but not all things are helpful (good for me to do, expedient and profitable when considered with other things). Everything is lawful for me, but I will not become the slave of anything or be brought under its power.

Food [is intended] for the stomach and the stomach for food, but God will finally end [the functions of] both and bring them to nothing. The body is not intended for sexual immorality, but [is intended] for the Lord, and the Lord [is intended] for the body [to save, sanctify, and raise it again].

(The Holy Bible)

INTRODUCTION

I n recent years, there has been so much talk across the length and breadth of the globe on the issue of respect for human rights, ‘homosexual rights’, ‘gay rights’, and ‘transgender and lesbian rights’, so to speak. Homosexuality started so many decades ago in history, although it has taken a new dimension today since it has been linked with human rights. That is to say, respect for human rights should also include or better still mean respect and acceptance of the sexual orientation of all persons – lesbian, gay, pansexual, bisexual, and heterosexual.

Many subcultures that practised homosexuality or same-sex relationship and marriage, who initially were practising it in obscure places, now are taking refuge under Articles 2, 12, 16, 18, 19, and 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), published on 10 December 1948 by the General Assembly of the United Nations. Articles 17 and 26 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) are often quoted by ‘gay rights’ activists and advocacy groups as a cushion for their standpoint.

As a result, homosexuals have gained attention and support from popular and powerful political leaders like David Cameron, the British prime minister; Ban Ki-moon, the UN Secretary General; and recently the US president, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State. The United Nations and some western nations are urging African governments to protect the rights of LGBT persons. Recently, it is alleged that the UK and the USA have decided to tie LGBT rights to foreign aid. The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon said in 2010, ‘Where there is tension between cultural attitudes and universal human rights, universal human rights must carry the day.’ He said this in respect to the tension between LGBT (lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgender) persons and cultural norms and values. In the same vein, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said, ‘Gay rights are human rights.’ Also, President Obama directed federal agencies to ‘ensure that USA diplomacy