Posted on 03/02/2023 6:46:46 AM PST by BenLurkin
Kenya’s President William Ruto and opposition leader Raila Odinga have united in their criticism of last week’s Supreme Court ruling which allows the LGBT community to register lobby groups in Kenya.
President Ruto has sworn that he will never allow gay marriage in Kenya, which he said "goes against the country’s cultures and religious beliefs".
It’s the latest and highest-profile attack on the judgement, which many have wrongly suggested gives the LGBT community freedom to get married in Kenya.
Last Friday, the Supreme Court ruled that the decision of Kenya’s NGO board to decline the registration of the National Gays and Lesbians Human Rights Commission - or any other group with the words gay and lesbian in it, was unconstitutional.
The court said that denying the group registration purely on the basis of their sexuality was a violation of their constitutional rights to association and freedom from discrimination.
However since then, there has been outrage from the public, parliament, the religious community, powerful state officers including the speaker of the national assembly, and now the president himself.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Exactly.
correct link:
Ruto and Odinga rail against [Kenya] LGBT court ruling
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-africa-64393326
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