Kenya’s Religious Leaders Decry “persistent, well-funded attempts” to Legalize LGBTQ

“This is the beginning of a slippery slope from which the country may not recover from if left unattended,” the representatives of Kenya’s religious leaders say in their petition presented to Kenyan MPs on February 1.

In the petition, they also decry the “ongoing aggressive public recruitment into the LGBTQ agenda.”

“There are scores of seemingly harmless programs across campuses and institutions of higher learning couched as caucuses on sexual freedoms and minority rights. These are inoculation and breeding grounds for the LGBTQ agenda,” the Religious leaders say.

They note that Kenya’s education curriculum has been infiltrated by the LGBTQ agenda. 

“The agenda is being pushed in books and study material,” Kenya’s Religious leader say, citing “one of the Grade 4 books” that they say have “subtle depiction of gay relationships.” This, they add, “is an affront on future generations and seeks to further confuse and mislead our young children.”

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The Religious leaders also find it regrettable that “international basic education curricula have also taken the form of open access to LGBTQ material.”

They want lawmakers to investigate publishers and book distributors of the offensive material “as a matter of urgency”, and add, “Urgent action must be taken by Parliament to ensure that all Kenyan children studying a variety of international curricula are not swayed by this infiltration.”

“Unless Parliament intervenes and has these activities nipped in the bud, the moral decay we have seen over the last couple of years will continue to dizzying levels,” representatives of Religious leaders in Kenya say. 

They call upon Kenyan MPs to exercise their oversight role, ensuring the Cabinet Secretaries of Education, Health, Foreign Affairs, and Labour and Social Protection, and the Inspector General of Police confirm the measures they are taking on “sneaking of the LGBTQ agenda into the Kenyan and International curriculum offered in Kenya.”

The Religious leaders add that the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection should be tasked to explain its “plans to safeguard the family from such erosive influences.”

In their petition, the Religious leaders also call upon Kenyan MPs to fast-track the discussion and passage of the Family Protection Bill (Kaluma Bill), which the MP for Homa Bay Town, Hon. Peter Opondo Kaluma, sponsored.

Magdalene Kahiu is a Kenyan journalist with passion in Church communication. She holds a Degree in Social Communications from the Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA). Currently, she works as a journalist for ACI Africa.