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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (",
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    "content": "Kikuyu, UDA): Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for the opportunity to contribute. This is not just a matter of faith, but one that touches on our national morals, values and culture as a people. From the outset, I want to state that I am a Presbyterian. I heard the Member for Funyula say that he is Catholic. I am Member No. 39 in Gikambura District of the Presbyterian Church of East Africa, the Revered Musa Gitau Church. I do not even want to mention those who advance those things, but they are people who have their own countries and cultures. We respect their culture and they must equally respect our culture as Africans and as Kenyans. You cannot force down the throats of Kenyans cultures that are alien to our nationality and Africanness. I want to avoid going for the Supreme Court in any manner because they have a duty and an obligation under the law to interpret the Constitution in the best way they think it should be construed. However, even the Supreme Court’s opinion was varied and it is only that the majority decision had their way but the minority had their say. I want to identify myself with the opinion and the views of the minority in the Supreme Court. We shall not allow and we must never allow our country to take up alien ideas and cultures because we are a country that tends to copy a number of few good things from other cultures. Our laws are quite clear. Our penal code outlawed issues to do with homosexuality. Therefore, it was absurd that a good number in the Supreme Court did find it fit to allow something that is already outlawed under our laws. And that you could now allow people to associate. What happens if all the pickpockets in our streets decide that they have rights and they want to form their association of Nairobi Streets Pocket Thieves? Bank robbers may also decide in future that they also have certain rights under the Constitution, for instance, the right of association. The Constitution also states that your rights are limited."
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