Ghana Cardinal Against Ghana Bishops

Homosexual acts are "objectively sinful" but should not be criminalised and people should be helped to understand it better, Ghana's Curia Cardinal Peter Turkson, 75, told BBC.com (November 27).

He added that practiced homosexuality [and any other sin] is not alien to the Ghanaian society because Akan, one of Ghana's languages, has an expression for “men who act like women and women who act like men.”

Turkson is aware of “attempts to link some foreign donations and grants to certain positions.” His comments come as Ghana's parliament debates a bill imposing penalties on homosexual acts.

He is at odds with the bishops of his homehountry. Ghana's bishops have stated that practiced homosexuality is "despicable" and have declared that Western countries should “stop the incessant attempts to impose unacceptable foreign cultural values [= Western decadence] on us.”

Picture: Peter Turkson © Mazur/catholicchurch.org.uk, CC BY-NC-ND, #newsNpgmsmgcve

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Bishops Strickland and Fernandez were removed, we're told, because they broke ranks with their brother bishops. So will Cardinal Turkson face discipline for his public disagreement with the other bishops of Ghana?

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SonoftheChurch

Nov 28, 2023edited

Sadly, it appears that His Eminence, Cardinal Turkson, is a spineless coward being used as a puppet by other unclean degenerate forces in the Vatican. He’s completely out of doctrinal step with his Ghanaian brother-bishops, who, boldly and correctly, vehemently oppose sodomy in all of its abominable iterations. There can be no middle ground or compromise about this satanic subject. The Magisterium of Holy Mother Church is blazingly clear regarding the issue: all same-sex sexual acts are depraved and unnatural, objectively disordered, and are thus, gravely, intrinsically and mortally sinful. Unfortunately for the good Cardinal and others who may happen to think erroneously as he does: that has not, cannot, and will not change.

Kenjiro M. Yoshimori

Nov 28, 2023

Turkson is another Pope Francis clone. Fortunatly he is 75. The GHanian bishops, if they are against LGBTQ's are right. Turkson is wrong.

Aaron-Jozef

Nov 28, 2023

Kardinaal Turkson is helaas te westers en bang voor Paus Franciscus, de bisschoppen van Ghana hebben gelijk de westerse invloeden zijn veel te groot. Ghana moet zijn eigen cultuur behouden en niet de decadente cultuur van het Westen aannemen, want dat is een sterfhuis constructie.