Court Of Appeal Decriminalizes 'Being Gay'

[SIZE=7]Win for gays and lesbians in Kenya as court rules in their favour[/SIZE]

https://ocdn.eu/images/pulscms/Yzc7MDA_/a6e5e95dcb03f28b4eb739fba7b70037.jpgMembers of LGBT community take at the High Court on February 22, 2019. Photo courtesy of Nation

Government loses against gay community

The Court of Appeal in Nairobi has handed a major win to the Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community after dismissing an appeal filed by the NGO coordination board – seeking to block registration of an organization to defend gay rights.

The government, through the Non-Governmental Organizations Coordination Board, had appealed a 2015 High Court ruling that allowed gay rights activists to register an organization to defend the rights of LGBT people in Kenya.

National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (NGLHRC)

The NGO Coordination board had refused to register the National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (NGLHRC) in March 2013, saying that the name of the organization was “unacceptable,” and that it could not register it because Kenya’s penal code “criminalizes gay and lesbian liaisons.”

https://ocdn.eu/images/pulscms/Y2U7MDA_/6e5eacf78ba09d202a851bb7022ada99.jpegMembers of the anti-gay caucus chant slogans against the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community as they march along the streets in Kenya’s capital Nairobi July 6, 2015. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya
The matter was heard by a five-judge bench of the Court of Appeal.

By a majority of tree judges. The appellate court dismissed the appeal by the NGO coordination board, agreeing with the High Court that LGBT persons, should be allowed to form an organization.

The court ruled that despite the penal code criminalizing certain acts, LGBT are persons entitled to the same rights as all other Kenyans.

The ruling is a major win for the LGBT community which has for long been discriminated against by the government through anti-gay laws.

NGLHRC and the Gay and Lesbian Coalition have another petition before the High Court of Kenya, seeking scrapping sections of the penal code that criminalizes gay acts.

The two groups told the court that sections 162 and 165 of the Kenyan penal should be declared unconstitutional on the basis that they validate stigma, discrimination and violence towards LGBT persons.

The ruling is expected later in the year on May 24th.

https://www.pulselive.co.ke/news/kenyas-court-of-appeal-rules-lgbt-can-register-an-ngo-governments-ngo-coordination/7tdq7cg.amp

Aki ya nani…

:smiley: The author is a talker.

Waaah, leo @Mzee mzima na @Jimit wananyanduana kama ghaseer in celebration. Majirani hawatakuwa na amani juu harufu ya meffi itakuwa neighborhood mzima.

They’ve been allowed to form a lobby group

Yeah, they have a Human Rights group that will champion their rights to do whatever, lakini they can never get married or adopt kids under a gay Union.

wapi picha ya bi ladies?

:D:D:D
Shait.
So we brace ourselves for some shait rainbow marathons…

Mwiko.

I’m sure it Will be overturned

Usisahau @Kimakia aliwajoin. Leo ni threesome vinyambis zitawaka Moto

Hii umeffi hatutaruhusu Kenya…but I think there are some very external powerful forces pushing the LGBT agenda in Kenya…We boost of being a country with a very progressive constitution that encompasses freedom of expression and one that champions human rights. The same constitution is what is being used to drive this agenda. Guys, however much we don’t like it or fathom about the LGBT being legal in Kenya, very soon, I mean very soon our Judiciary, under the funding of George Soros and Makau Mutua, will make Kenya the first African country to embrace LGBT. Its just a matter of time.

Hapa itakuwa massacre Ile siaka tutawapeleka watajua hatukukimbiza mzungu 1952 ndio Tu allow LGBT.

What the courts forgot is those homos might get ideas and start raping innocent straight people. Meffi to root 100 trillion

Yeah and gay bars near your local watering point.

It was an appeal, so yeah am sure there’ll be lots of appeals.

Akina @Kimakia na @MajorProphet wanasherekea eating da poopoo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf0Lv3egcMc

Question is, when the courts decide, where else can it be challenged? Not even Parliament or the executive can overturn the decision…

Kenya won’t be the first African country to legalize homosexuality.

Sijui kama Uhuru anaeza reverse hiyo declaration.

Tranny wataanza kudemand kuingia choo za ladies.