- Pastor Dorcas Rigathi has come out to condemn the ongoing LGBTQ+ motion saying it’s against Kenya’s religion and culture and should not be condoned.
- She insisted that their was no room for such trivial conversations as they had zero significance to our society.
- She explained that the country was confronting some more serious problems like poverty and the zeal to debate on gay motions should be substituted to other more dire topics.
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Pastor Dorcas Rigathi, Wife to the Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has strongly denounced introduction of LGBTQ in the country, terming the vice as weird and against our religion and culture.
Pastor Rigathi who posted the proceedings of her visit to a group of widows in Loitoktok Town, Saturday, on Facebook announced that their was no room for conversation on the such topics, which had no constructive significance in our society.
She further pointed out that presently the Country is confronting several challenges such as poverty, drought, policies and advocacy for widows and other vulnerable groups, hence there was no time to harp on such indecencies.
Pastor Rigathi who shared posted pictures of her together with the widows, also, exhorted the western countries which were allegedly the top perpetrators of the vice, to honor Africa and its culture and values.
She further pointed out that family is the basic important unit in the society and is bred by heterosexual connections, which needed to be conserved by all means and not by as LGBTQ motions would easily topple.it over.
Accordingly, in Kenya LGBTQ is lawfully criminalized and culturally a taboo, with no religious subsidy at all.
On Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and early marriages of underage girls, Pastor Rigathi, called for inclusion of fathers and the boy child in the fight against the vices.
She asserted that fathers can play vital role in the transformation of mindsets of the youths concerning FGM by persuading the boys that it was also okay to marry a girl who had not undergone FGM.
“By involving male counterparts in the fight against FGM and early marriages, less money will be used through advocacy by Non-Government Organizations” noted the Deputy President’s spouse.
On her part, Edna Lenku, spouse to the Governor of Kajiado County, Joseph Ole Lenku, who had also joined the Pastor, promised through her social media handles, that they will fast track policies that will positively address the plight of widows and other vulnerable groups in the County, as well as fight against early marriages, FGM and gender based violence.
