Supporters and opponents face off over Ghana's anti-LGBT law

FILE PHOTO: People who were detained by police on suspicion of promoting an LGBT+ agenda at an unlawful assembly are escorted by police officers out the court after their bail hearing at the Ho court in Ho, Volta Region-Ghana June 4, 2021. REUTERS/Francis Kokoroko

ACCRA (Reuters) - Supporters and opponents of Ghana's new anti-LGBT bill faced off in parliament on Wednesday in the first public hearings into the proposed legislation that would make it a crime to be gay, bisexual or transgender.

Akoto Ampaw, a lawyer representing a coalition against the law, was met with occasional jeers as he told the session the Family Values bill would be "totalitarian" and "unconstitutional".