User talk:Rytpat

MORAL LAWS We are an independent nation and therefore our way of thinking should be primarily liberated before we can have our own identity. I am opine to the Ideology of drafting moral or traditional laws; get them to the legislature for our law makers to debate on them, advice or prescribe to the nation the way forward. I mean there are laws yet to be passed but we know our society abhors them and therefore we try not to break such laws, those laws may be moral or posses traditional inclination. Laws are generally put in place to allow humans to live together in decency therefore as rational beings why can’t we lay down laws that morality considers as crimes. I have not been totally transparent since I have abstained from giving possible scenarios but I am circumspect not to awaken unnecessary feedbacks before I make my point tacit. Do we all agree that it is morally wrong and an emotional crime to have sex with your fathers girlfriend? Just as it is wrong to have sex with your brother’s wife for financial reasons, do you accept that we can’t tolerate incest marriages in Ghana? We can’t rely on how the west govern their countries and the laws that monitors their way of life, we should be free to lay down rules that manifest our free will and to safeguard principles that identify us as Ghanaians. For example, if we allow human rights laws to identify loopholes in our laws to make homosexuality legal then where are going as a nation. We all know that the fundamental principles that govern the Ghanaian way of life disagree with such practices; why can’t we make it illegal?

Don’t we know it is bad to copulate with your mother even there is a mutual understanding? Some may argue that, they are adults and can decide what is good for them but if an adult decides he or she wants to kill does it make it right? Let us define what is wrong and make laws to govern them be it moral or traditional. What is wrong is wrong even if it infringes on our human rights, isn’t it my right to decide to kill? But killing is wrong same as the right to be a homosexual or the marriage between siblings, to insult a king in a crowd or to slap a chief for example, should carry criminal as well as moral charges. Are we saying we accept all the things described in the bible as sins to be sins but accept homosexuality because of human rights? Let me explain why we should disagree to allow homosexuality to abide within the ruling principles of human right violations, we agree that killing is my right as a human if I decide that is what I want, but why is it a crime? Because I took another man’s life; but why is it a crime to take life from someone; because it is against the laws of nature. Take gays, why should it be considered a crime? Because a man slept with a man, why is it wrong? Because it is against the laws of nature. Our right to put in place the Ghanaian moral code (GMC) reigns with enormous credulity. There are several laws incorporated in the constitution and other laws that were purely born out of morality; this is not the only way forward since it has to be properly structured to maintain our human rights and also our morals that make us Ghanaian. We should edit our ways of getting things done to magnify our Ghanaian heritage and identity. Or, we can succumb to foreign human right laws at the expense of our identity and dignity; clearly most of their laws undermine our identity.

Robert Brodie-Mends cape coast, Ghana