1340: To Ghanaian LGBTI, apparently: “If they don’t like it, then they can just leave the country.”
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Personal)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2025/07/26
I knew someone.
They travelled to Ghana.
We talked about LGBTI people.
They mentioned individuals who are LGBTI are against traditional values of Ghana.
“They can just leave.”
“What about those fighting for their equality and rights as LGBTI people in Ghana?”
“They can leave.”
Following this, the conversation became a basis for condemning individuals for who they are, fighting for their equality, and to stereotyping LGBTI as a thing of, essentially, Westerners, because they “don’t care about them” — except, of course, when they fight for their rights in a country.
I only hear these, typically, in North America from Evangelical Protestant Christians and one sector of ultra-conservative Catholics.
Those types of conversations are instructive. Many still view items from a particularist ethical lens rather than universal application.
Be kind,
stay gentle,
don’t coerce or force,
each has their path,
how would you feel if someone tried to change you in like manner?
Probe,
ask soft questions,
look for self-reflective capacities,
limit to a nudge here and there, maybe,
a little later, another view, broader vision can creep into view.
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