Kenya's high court unanimously upholds ban on gay sex

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Some gay rights activists wept outside the courtroom after the verdict.

Same-sex relationships are a crime in more than 70 countries around the world, almost half of them in Africa. South Africa is the only African nation to have legalised gay marriage.

Campaigners who filed the petition to decriminalise gay sex argued that the law violates Kenya’s progressive 2010 constitution, which guarantees equality, dignity and privacy for all citizens. Justices Chacha Mwita, Roselyne Ekirapa, and John Mativo address the court ruling on whether to uphold or nullify law banning gay sex, at the Milimani high Court in Nairobi, Kenya, on May 24 2019.The justices, who began hearing the case last year, threw out the petition, saying the ban on gay sex dovetailed with broader, traditional moral values encapsulated in Kenya’s constitution.

Aburili said the constitution still outlaws same-sex marriage but allowing gay sex would “open the door for same sex unions.”

 

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This is Africa with Zuma Mentality.

Seriously there ie only one thing I can say and that is fuck god there is no doubt this is inspired by pathetic sky fairies

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