•Homa Bay Town Member of Parliament Peter Kaluma Saturday revealed that he had submitted the Family Protection Bill to the National Assembly.
• The move comes in the wake of a controversial pro-LGBTQ Supreme Court court ruling.
• The bill also seeks to ban Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) in pre-primary, primary and secondary schools education programmes.
Homa Bay Town Member of Parliament Peter Kaluma Saturday revealed that he had submitted the Family Protection Bill to the National Assembly.
The move comes in the wake of a controversial pro-LGBTQ Supreme Court court ruling.
The MP who vowed to fight the groups registration in courts and in Parliament through his Twitter account said the new Bill proposes a ban on homosexuality, same-sex marriages and any hint of LGBTQ activities and lobbying in the country.
The bill also seeks to ban Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) in pre-primary, primary and secondary schools education programmes.
He avers that the content teaches children masturbation, Abortion on demand parental information or consent, pornography, homosexuality, and LGBTQ and that they are trapped in the wrong body.
The bill if passed will uphold the prior rights of parents and guardians to their children’s education.
It will also criminalize the promotion, recruitment, and funding of homosexuality and LGBTQ behavior.
He adds that the bill defines “sex” as the biological state of being male or female observed and assigned at birth.
It also reasserts the rights of parents to be informed and to consent to sexuality education, and abortion procedures involving their children.
The MP also wants the state to limit rights to assembly, demonstration, association, expression, belief, privacy, and employment in childcare institutions in respect of homosexual convicts.
The bill further prohibits adoption by homosexuals and proscribes sex acts on animals.
If the bill is passed, it will increase the maximum punishment for anyone found guilty of same-sex relations to death.
President William Ruto last month criticized the Supreme Court’s February ruling stating that “Kenya is a God-fearing nation and will not accept foreign ideologies to be imposed on us,”.
He directed Attorney General Justin Muturi to file a petition challenging the ruling.
The judges ruled three-to-two that the country’s NGO board was wrong to stop the National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (NGLHRC) from registering in 2013.
They ruled “it would be unconstitutional to limit the right to associate, through denial of registration of an association, purely on the basis of the sexual orientation of the applicants”
