Sex is the loftiest expression of human feelings from which we draw out
satisfaction of life. It must therefore be well and carefully thought of, and
communicated. Thus, in the context of human explication, sex is such an
inexhaustible mystery, which attracts, and will continue to attract fresh
explorers. The Church stigmatised almost every form of human sexuality
including masturbation, fornication, homosexuality, transvestism and adultery
and considered them as sin. Some of these teachings of the Church were
however not resulted from any particular teaching of Jesus Christ but were
adopted into Christianity by the Doctors of the Western Church who were
reflecting on issues of their own time and in the process imbued in millions of
people today a guilt of feeling that does not necessarily correspond to modern
understanding of sexuality. This hostility towards sex is not so much part of
biblical Christianity as it is perceived as a major component of Christian
theology. This is because Christianity appeared in a world dominated by the
expansionist Roman Empire which had adopted and incorporated into its own intellectual tradition much of Gnosticism, Neo-Platonism and Greek philosophy and ethics. This paper moves to submit that all human sexual orientations originated from God and that the Bible does not provide a basis for the kind of contempt with which the church had so often treated same-sex individuals in Ghana.
