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    "id": 1226179,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1226179/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Gatanga, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Wakili Edward Muriu",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Speaker, I support this Motion, particularly the 61st Session of the Organisation of Africa, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) Parliamentary Assembly and 42nd Session of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly. Matters of international treaties need to be looked at by this Parliament with a toothcomb. Some of the things these treaties propose are against our norms. There is LGBTQIA+ issue. Kenya is a Christian and Muslim country. There are minorities in Hinduism and other religions. There is no single religion which subscribes to LGBTQIA+. We, as leaders, have a responsibility to support the generation which is coming. When the Whiteman brought religion to this country, he told us too many wives were bad and we should have only one. He forgot that he was supposed to bring religion to save our souls but not our bodies. The western countries have come again now. They are saying that we leave that single woman they told us to support and be married to. A man should marry another man and a woman should marry another woman. We stand at a very critical time in the history of this country. We need to have a serious conversation in all instances in our churches, Parliament and barazas, and say “no” to LGBTQIA+. A man shall leave his parents, join his wife and become one. That is the canon law that cannot change. I support this Motion. However, if there is any element of LGBTQIA+, I will oppose it. Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
}