‘The European and American communities have failed because they’ve redefined family,’ Ghana MP Sam George declared.

Ghana Member of Parliament (MP) Sam George recently defended a bill that would criminalize homosexual behavior — and its promotion — against pressure from the West to quash the legislation.

“Ghana is not the 51st state of the United States. Ghana is a sovereign state on its own,” George said on New Dawn Africa Channel when asked to comment on U.S. Department of State spokesman Matthew Miller’s denunciation of the bill, which was sponsored by George.

“I’d expect Matthew Miller to respect the tenets of democracy,” said George, stressing that Ghana is “opposed to cultural imperialism” and adding that Miller “should be more interested in the loss of life of (c)hildren in American schools to gun violence.”

The legislation, which has not yet been signed into law, punishes homosexual behavior with six months to three years in jail, and also punishes the support or promotion of such behavior with three to five years in prison.

The bill includes an outright ban on same-sex “marriage,” same-sex adoption, and other public displays of homosexual or transgender behavior. The bill also seeks to clamp down on transgender ideology by banning mutilating procedures for gender-confused individuals.

New Dawn asked George if he was concerned that Ghana might face treatment from the West similar to the economic punishment imposed on Uganda when it enacted its own anti-homosexuality law. The World Bank halted all new lending to Uganda in 2023 after the law was passed, driving them to seek funds from China, and the Biden administration officially removed Uganda from an African trade deal last year in response to the anti-sodomy law.

“I expect the leaders of our country … to stand shoulder-high and tell the American people: You either do business with us on our terms or you can walk,” George replied. “American businesses that operate in Ghana are not in Ghana because of LGBTQ. They are in Ghana because they make a profit.”

George advised companies that “want to lose $100 million in profit” to “pack up and go,” because “another company will come into Ghana and do business.”

“We’re not puppets and stooges of the West,” George declared. He pointed out that Western countries, including the U.S., are hypocritical for continuing to trade with Middle Eastern countries like Qatar that legally punish homosexuality with jail time. He suggested that this is because the U.S. profits handsomely from business with these nations.

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