So this is the upbringing our society has given our youth; a firm belief in instant justice for those practicing ‘unnatural acts?’
Sadly this is not an isolated belief, as I have spoken with several people on this issue who would probably do worse to anyone they felt has this particular sexual orientation.
Students of St Paul’s Senior High School in Denu in the Volta Region, were engaged in riots on Friday night that led to the death of one student, as police had to be called in to handle the situation.
Citifmonline reports the students were irate over the protection being given by school authorities to two guys who had been caught ‘doing it’. They felt they should be allowed to administer instant justice to the two, for the crime of daring to do it to a man- and not finding a lady like any decent senior high school student would.
The feeling was that school authorities took no action to those believed to be practising it in the past, so it was time to take the law into their own hands.
After futilely trying to control their students; who were rioting, destroying school properties and blocking access to the major roads around the school- authorities called in police. It was during attempts to control the situation that one student died, though it’s unclear what might have caused his death.
Some students say the police fired into their midst, leading to the one fatality. Police have denied their involvement, so it looks like a war of words until an autopsy can discover exactly what happened.
Still, students should not be dying through avoidable situations like this. One cannot tell what exactly happened, but surely the police must carry some blame if their intervention in any way led to the death of the student.
But the greater blame goes to our society, which criminalises the actions of those we perceive to be different. We classify homosexuality as ‘unnatural carnal knowledge’; but who’s to say what’s natural? One man’s poison is another man’s meat.
Horrible incident whichever way you look at it; but if these are the calibre of youth our society is bringing up, we need a good look at our beliefs.
Don’t understand why the students are concerned about another person’s sexual orientation. It is none of your business and also fine you don’t agree with homosexuality but they agree with fornication just because the person would have been from the opposite sex…no sense there. Ghanaians need to concentrate on their own lives and stop interfering in others.
In fact I am disappointed in whoever did this story..
Do you want to tell us that homosexuals are into an act of natural carnal knowledge?
I am not saying anyone should be given instant justice for whatever wrong they might have done but are we stooping so low not to have known the right from wrong? If someone’s meat is another man’s poison, is that to say that the wrong you have done is another man’s good???I guess its just a matter of time and stealing or even murder will become no more than someone’s right.Please can we put a bit of thought to what we write for the public to read and probably learn from?