Tension is building in Kenya on the hot topic of gay rights ahead of President Obama’s visit on July 24. A section of MPs led by National Assembly Speaker Justin Muturi have warned US President Barrack Obama against asking Kenya to embrace same-sex marriages, Nation reports.
According to the Penal Code, Mr Muturi said, sodomy is a criminal offence, and urged the Church to campaign against same-sex marriages. “Liberal thoughts are being entertained in some countries under the guise of human rights… We must lead an upright society and not allow obnoxious behaviour as we have a responsibility to protect our children,” he told the faithful at St Peter’s ACK Church at a fundraiser for the construction of the Mbeere Diocese cathedral.
He said he had at one time told off a group of British MPs who wanted to discuss the issue.
Mr Muturi, however, said he was not speaking on behalf of the National Assembly but expressing his personal views on the topic after the US legalised same-sex marriages.
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The Speaker said he would admit any motion in the National Assembly seeking legalisation of gay unions. Mr Muturi, Embu Senator Lenny Kivuti, Embu Woman Representative Rose Mitaru, MPs Charles Njagagua (Mbeere North) and Cecily Mbarire (Runyenjes) and Embu County Assembly Speaker Kariuki Mate said gay unions were against African culture and would not be entertained in Kenya.
Mr Njagagua warned that President Obama would be ejected from the House if he lectured MPs on the topic. Ms Mitaru, who is an ordained Cannon of the Anglican Church of Kenya, said allowing gay marriages would open a “floodgates of evil synonymous with the biblical Sodom and Gomorra”.
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