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    "id": 1217815,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Westlands, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Tim Wanyonyi",
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    "content": " Thank you Hon. Temporary Speaker for giving me a chance to also contribute to this Motion. How do you call this thing in your mother tongue? Is it described in African languages? How is it called? It does not exist and it has never existed. In the history of Kabaka Mwanga of Uganda, the small boys, the pages, were used as pets for this kind of thing by eunuchs. This is what these people want to teach us. I remember we once visited the Pope as Catholic Members of Parliament. He advised us to always come into Parliament armed with our faith and legislate while remembering that we are Christians. We should not leave our faith outside Parliament. We have our African values that do not prescribe such kind of behaviour. As parents, we must be worried because our children are being targeted. It is infiltrating our colleges and higher learning institutions. This is what they are trying to enforce. In the 11th Parliament, there was a Member who attempted to introduce a Bill that was meant to protect the rights of homosexuals. We realised that and rejected it What the Supreme Court did is making judgement by disregarding all the values of our society and the nation yet they want us to believe that the ruling is meant to protect the rights of the people. How do we recognise an amorphous group that is not recognised by our laws and the Constitution? We cannot do that. We have the right of association. There was a group from South Nyanza that demanded to be recognised. They wanted night running to be recognised as a sport in the Olympics. Hon. Temporary Speaker…"
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