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    "id": 702193,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kang’ata",
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        "legal_name": "Irungu Kang'ata",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I draw the attention of Members to Article 45 of the Constitution which establishes the right to family. The family unit complements the role of a State. When you look at how humans have been evolving since the time they were created by God or even for those who do not believe in God, since the so-called Big Bang Theory, family has been a very crucial unit of the society. Over the years, there have been very major attacks against the family unit. One of the ways in which modern times humans have been attacking the family unit is developing ideas where the centre of the world is on the individual. Therefore, you establish, under the guise of the so-called human rights regime, ideas of freedom to do whatever you want to do, say, freedom of sexual orientation and so on. Some of these ideas do not make sense at all and that is why I am opposing the nomination of this nominee. For instance, I posed the question in the Committee:- What is your view about same sex relations? The answer that she gave, in my opinion, exposed a candidate who is not deep in what we call jurisprudence. Jurisprudence is the philosophy of law. When you say, for instance, that two people have the right to do whatever they want to do so long as a State does not interfere or what they do does not affect other people’s rights, you fail to appreciate so many things. One, when you look at our Penal Code, there are so many victimless crimes, for instance, incest, namely, you have a sexual relationship with your relative. When you say you support gay rights on the basis that these are freedoms that you can choose with your partner, then what do you make sense of that?"
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