Award-winning Afropop, dancehall, and reggae musician, Livingstone Etse Satekla, better known by his stage name Stonebwoy, has declared he will not tolerate his children being gay or lesbian.

The BET award winner, who boldly identified as straight, claimed that because of the upbringing he and his wife are providing for their kids, he expects them to follow in their footsteps.

“I believe that people will take after you most often. I am straight, my dad was straight, my mother was straight. My family line majority of them showed straightness as far as I am concerned. So I believe that, I am straight and I can put my hands on that. My wife is straight. My daughter has got to be straight, my son has got to be straight because they are continuing in that certain. So they are going to learn that,” Stonebwoy said in an interview with Bola Ray on Starr Chat on Starr FM.

In mid-June 2021, Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana Alban Bagbin stated that LGBT+ rights “should not be encouraged or accepted by our society” and that “urgent actions are being taken to pass a law to eventually nip the activities of [LGBT+] groups in the bud.”

"Later that month, eight MPs in the Parliament proposed the Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill 2021. The eight MPs were Sam Nartey George, Della Sowah, Emmanuel Kwasi Bedzrah, Alhassan Suhuyini, Rita Naa Odoley Sowah, Helen Ntoso, and Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor, all of the National Democratic Congress, as well as John Ntim Fordjour of the New Patriotic Party. On 1 July, Alban Bagbin stated that he expected the law to be passed within six months, telling a prayer meeting of Ghanaian MPs that “the LGBT+ pandemic is worse than COVID-19.”

The bill successfully underwent its initial reading in the Ghanaian Parliament on 2 August 2021, subsequently being forwarded to the Committee on Constitutional, Legal, and Parliamentary Affairs.

On 13 October 2021, Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu, the majority leader in Parliament, affirmed the commitment of the legislative body to meticulously evaluate the bill, emphasizing the importance of achieving a thoughtful balance in the process.

On November 5, 2021, Deputy Majority Leader Alexander Kwamina Afenyo-Markin disclosed that the Constitutional, Legal, and Parliamentary Affairs Committee would commence hearing petitions within a week, estimating that the hearings would span approximately 15 weeks.

Subsequently, on November 12, 2021, public hearings on the bill commenced in the Parliament of Ghana. During the initial hearings, Henry Kwasi Prempeh from the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development voiced opposition to the bill, emphasizing that being part of a temporary majority does not grant the authority to impose one's will on any individual in society. Kyeremeh Atuahene of the Ghana AIDS Commission expressed concerns that the bill could criminalize anti-HIV/AIDS efforts in the country and jeopardize donor funding.

On November 30, 2021, Akwasi Osei of the Mental Health Authority Ghana voiced support for the bill, asserting that homosexuality was abnormal and claiming that a majority of LGBT+ individuals in Ghana identified as such due to peer pressure. On the same day, Joseph Whittal, the Commissioner of Human Rights and Administrative Justice of Ghana, cautioned the Parliament to exercise caution with the bill, stating that the commission neither endorsed nor opposed it but highlighted the potential risk of subjecting human rights advocates to criminal prosecution.

December 6, 2021, saw Moses Foh-Amoaning of the National Coalition for Proper Human Sexual Rights and Family Values expressing support for the bill, contending that LGBT+ individuals were "not well," and the law provided health authorities with the power to intervene.

Fast forward to July 5, 2023, the Parliament of Ghana unanimously voted to grant the bill a second reading and approved minor amendments proposed by the Constitutional, Legal, and Parliamentary Affairs Committee.