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African values against gay marriages lauded
07 May 2007-
Ghana- The Presiding Archbishop of the International Council for the
Clergy, has lauded traditional African values that bar gay marriages and
other practices that are at variant with Christianity.
Archbishop Dr George Slezer Ofori-Atta, said contrary to public notion
that the Western way of life was far advance and constituted the
standards for modern civilisation, the strong moral values in Africa
that respect the sanctity of life had proven to stand the test of time.
Archbishop Ofori-Atta, who is also the Chancellor of the Dome- based
Christian Theological College and Seminary in Accra, was speaking at the
ordination and graduation of 35 prophets and 17 reverend ministers at
the Schambach Theological College in Accra.
He stressed: “I hold a doctorate degree in Theology and there is no
where in the Bible that supports unnatural sex, which is also abhorred
in Africa."
He quoted Romans Chapter one versus 26 -27, which reads: "For this
reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged
the natural use for what is against nature.
“Likewise also leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their
lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful and
receiving in themselves with penalty of their error which was due."
Archbishop Ofori-Atta said contrary to the teachings of God, which have
crowned man with glory and honour and to have dominion over all things,
some Europeans die and bequeath their property to animals.
He said God had given man dominion over all things, "and so if in other
parts of the world, human beings are loving dogs more than their fellow
human beings then there is something wrong with their so-called
civilisation".
Archbishop Ofori-Atta asked the graduates of the school to strive for
knowledge. He said: "Ministers of God without knowledge are very
dangerous."
He also tasked them to shun materialism noting that, worldly success
fades away.
Commenting on the country's power crises, Archbishop Ofori-Atta appealed
to Christians to pray and fast for water to fill the Akosombo
Hydro-electric dam.
Apostle Schambach Amaniampong, Founder of the School and Overseer of the
Christian Redemption International Ministry said he would lead a group
of prophets to declare three days of fasting and prayers in order to
open the heavens for water to fill the Akosombo dam.
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