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    "content": "Hyper liberalism jurisprudence is a concept that centres on the values of the individual liberty, equality, limited Government and the rule of law. Under the circumstances, though these values are quite important to the human rights concepts, they also tend to comprise the cultural values of our people. I make this Statement because my attention has been drawn by several court decisions rendered by the High Court on issues of religious and moral ethics of the Kenyan people. In the recent past, the court has made decisions regarding human rights organizations. I refer you to two decisions that were made by the court recently. First, there was a decision which allowed a so-called human rights organization that purportedly fights for the rights of the people who believe in same sex relationships, that it was meant to be legalized. There was also another decision regarding a certain movie which will corrupt the morals of our children. It is called Rafiki. There was a temporary ban which had been given by a certain body then a court order was issued allowing that movie to be shown to our society. Also, again, my attention has been drawn by a decision by the High Court which compelled the Registrar to register a movement called the Atheist Society of Kenya. In all these cases the jurisprudence than underpins this decision is what is called hyper liberal interpretation of the Bill of Rights. The courts in the foregoing decisions have argued that atheism and same sex relationships may be protected under the Bill of Rights pursuant to Article 27(4) of the Constitution. It is true I agree Article 165(3) grants the High Court power to interpret the Constitution. However, Article 93(2) gives Parliament the power for representation. Therefore, pursuant to this Article I hereby express deep resentment to this jurisdiction by the people that I represent - the people of Murang’a County who feel that the courts want to impose upon us negative ideology which appears to argue that we should allow this crime. Allow me to give five reasons why I disagree---"
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