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    "id": 1217825,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1217825/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Caroli Omondi",
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    "content": "If you look at the abbreviations of the topic we are talking about, “LGBTQIA+”, some of them present very complicated medical conditions. For example, in transgender, someone’s gender identity is very different from what is typically known to humanity. In intersex, one is endowed with both sexual organs. It is easy to talk about lesbians where a woman is attracted to another female or gays where one is attracted to people of the same sex. If one is bisexual or queer, queer is where gender is fluid. There is a new one being questioned where one is still not clear what their gender identity is. Where one is asexual, there is no sexual attraction. These things present very complex issues. I see a lot of passion and interest on this matter. However, I want to urge tolerance. We all remember one famous man called Galileo Galilei who discovered that the earth orbits around the sun and the sun is always at its meridian. However, the Catholic church called this heresy and sentenced him to life imprisonment and he died in prison. That was called intolerance. I am a Catholic and I profess that faith. On Tuesday, 24th January 2023, Pope Francis uttered the following words: “Criminalising homosexuality is unjust. God loves all his children just as they are. Being homosexual is not a crime.” While I understand and agree that this is not part of our culture and a behaviour that we should not support, I completely do not agree that we should exercise or show discrimination against LGBTQIA+ on the basis of their sexual choices and orientation. As Africans, we have experienced discrimination on the basis of race…"
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