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    "content": "as far as our Constitution is concerned. However, it says nothing about partnerships. I hope the NACC will go further and deal with issues like this. Madam Temporary Speaker, at the moment, we are under pressure internationally to accept homosexuality as part of the basic human rights. We know that homosexuality is one of those acts that people engage in and that they can label anything a human right. I wonder whether suicide is a human right. I think homosexuality and suicide are one and the same thing. It is important that our laws state categorically and put regulations in place that can eradicate these scourges which are alien and being forced on us. I am aware that the NACC is funded by international bodies. I am sure that soon accepting homosexuality will be one of the conditions for us to get funding for HIV/AIDS scourge. This will not take very long. Last year, I attended an international AIDS conference in Australia. However, I came back a very disappointed person. I hear in the next two weeks, hon. Senators from this House will attend the same conference in Vancouver, Canada. That conference which was meant to chart the way forward in order to eliminate some of these things has completely been taken over by HIV/AIDS activists. The issue that is being propagated in those conferences is homosexuality. They talk about the right of homosexuals to mortgages and participation in various activities. These are the activists who very soon will force this country to adopt the resolutions of those acts that I have referred to as despicable and abominable. We should not accept them in this country. We should shout loudly against this vice more so, because the President of the most powerful State on earth is soon coming to this country. I am sure that one of those issues that he is likely to propagate and say it as a policy for his country is homosexuality. Kenya, being an African country, must stand up and tell him that this is alien in our communities and that it is one of the predication factors for the HIV/AIDS scourge. We must be able to resist it as much as we can. Madam Temporary Speaker, the NACC should start to look at some of these issues and starts taking serious penalties on those individuals who are deliberately infecting others with HIV/AIDS. Penalties for these individuals must be enhanced as a deterrent measure so that we do not have to lose individuals who could have helped this country. I am sure the NACC can deal with some of these issues now that we are asking it to be more active at the counties where the individuals are and where homosexuality has not thrived as much as it has in urban areas. We should be able to nip this in the bud. The NACC should establish offices in the counties, so that they can deal with this scourge at the county level. We know very well that the communities that we have in this country have different cultural behaviour. We have demonstrated that through research where certain cultural behaviours have contributed to the spread of HIV/AIDS pandemic. It is, therefore, very important that we devolve the NACC activities, so that they can work out specific strategies in the various regions where communities are practicing certain cultural behaviours that have led to the prevalence of HIV/AIDS. It is very important that we support this Motion so that the NACC devolves some of its functions nearer to where the communities are so that they can impact the people The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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