Human rights versus religious belief

Dear Editor

The Apostolic Faith Churches of Portland Oregon in Ghana believes one should marry within their churches and would subject all those who do not comply to all sorts of inhumane discipline.

The church would not recognise you as a Christian and would ask you to refrain from doing any ministry work placed in your hands.

If you are a chorister, they would ask you to step down and some of the pastors would even go to the extent of sending some of the children who believe otherwise to psychiatric hospitals for treatment thinking that marrying outside their faith is a mental illness.

This and other practices of the church make it look like a cult. The church, in their ingnorance, believes that anybody who wears ear rings and any woman who wears trousers would not go to heaven.

I find it so disheartening to accept the fact that a church from the US where liberty is highly stressed practises such belief. Why is the Supreme Court of the United States silent about this matter? Why has SCOTUS allowed a church from the US to practise this thing in any part of the world?

Ebenezer K N Baiden-Amissah

P. O. BOX GP 801, Accra.

0245310380