Ghana has not yet developed to the stage of discussing sexual orientations.

This is evidently not the case as that discussion is going on! In newspapers and on radio.
I have covered this here http://madikazemi.blogspot.com/2011/07/audio-in-ghana-is-it-getting-worse-for.html

worsening situation in Ghana for human rights for GLB people

It’s worsening reporting and not necessarily a worsening situation. In fact it might be a moral panic reaction to an improving situation such as increasing support for decriminalisation by civil society.

Ghana has not yet developed to the stage of discussing sexual orientations.

This is evidently not the case as that discussion is going on! In newspapers and on radio.
I have covered this here http://madikazemi.blogspot.com/2011/07/audio-in-ghana-is-it-getting-worse-for.html

It’s worsening reporting and not necessarily a worsening situation. In fact it might be a moral panic reaction to an improving situation such as increasing support for decriminalisation by civil society.

Paul,
You are so deluded that you cannot tell the difference between Civil society and “Civil Society Organizations” (a.k.a Non-governmental organizations). Civil Society Organizations in most African nations are funded by Western donors so their views are not always that of African people.

In a sign that there are forces of reason in Ghana’s leadership, the
President said he was misquoted when a news source said he intended to crack down on gays legally. It is not clear what he will do about this call for unlawful arrests.

Warren,
It is lawful to arrest people who engage in the crime of gayism in most African nations and Ghana is no exception. Funnily enough, the official state-run Ghana News Agency has not taken down its story that the Ghanaian President unequivocally condemned gayism as being alien to the culture of the Ghanaian people. I also received information from Ghana that the Ghanaian Times never published a retraction of story. So there is even doubt that President Atta Mills ever scolded the paper in the first place. The Ghanaian source of the information told me that this gay brouhaha began with the planting of a fake story in a national newspaper which claimed that 8000 people came out as gay and registered themselves with a United States-funded NGO in Western Ghana. He said that the story was planted by what he called the “International Homosexual Cartel” to spark the debate that your friend Paul Canning seems so excited about. From news reports on the internet and personal conversations with XXXXXX in Kumasi City, I get the impression that widespread condemnation of gayism as opposed to robust debate is taking place in Ghana. XXXXX also gave me the impression that many religious leaders in Ghana perceive President John Atta-Mills as a nice man, but a weak president who can easily be pressured by pro-gay Western governments to do their bidding. Hence, the heavy condemnation of gayism by vocal church groups. My own personal view is that these church groups may be overreacting because there is no way gayism can be legalized there against the wishes of the deeply conservative society. From personal exprience, West Africans are more conservative than East and Southern Africans.