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GAY STUNTS TO BE BANNED OM BOARDG SCHOOLS KENYA?
Gay sex remas illegal but anti-gay attus have been harng after last month's lg by the Supreme Court upholdg the gay muny's right to register an associatn. In Febary this year, the Kenyan ernment cracked down on foreign books wh gay ntent that feels targets, teenagers.
This was after a public outcry om parents wh school-age children and relig officials who had mand the ernment to do a thorough d of books the market and ban the on wh gay ntent. It is the culmatn of a -long legal battle, and a victory for the LGBTQ+ a majory cisn, the urt led that the non-ernmental ordatn board was discrimatory and ged on the muny’s nstutnal right to associatn by refg to register any of six nam proposed by the muny’s reprentativ, among them the Natnal Gay and Lbian Human Rights Commissn and the Gay and Lbian Human Rights ernment body had said that permtg registratn would ntravene sectns of the untry’s penal that crimalise gay and lbian unns, cludg a Brish lonial law layg down a 14-year sentence for anyone nvicted of homosexual acts.
“There may be many people who are stgglg wh different kds of sexual sir but they have not gone to urt for the whole natn to regnise them, ” stat the church, which has a large followg Kenya’s urban Kenyan church lked the urt’s lg to the recent cisn by the Church of England to wele same-sex upl “unrervedly and joyfully” Kaluma, an MP allied to the opposn, vowed to table a bill parliament to prohib homosexualy and impose stiffer penalti, cludg life prison, for those engaged same sex lg will be a btersweet victory for the LGBTQ+ muny Kenya, whose members have been subject to harassment, excln and vlence. Teachers held negative attus about homosexualy, premaral sex and abortn: Nety-six percent believed that relatnships should only be between a man and a woman, 92–93% believed that femal and mal should avoid sex until marriage and 61% said that abortn should not be allowed.