Attorney General Justice Muturi has said that he will be requesting a full bench of the Supreme court to pronounce itself on the matter where the apex court legalized the registration of LGBTQ Non-governmental Organizations in the country despite homosexuality being outlawed in the country.

The supreme court ruled on Friday that it was discriminatory to ban LGBTQ members from forming organizations.

This was against the backdrop of a ruling made in 2013 that outlawed the formation of an LGBTQ organization to champion the interests of the gay community.

Muturi was speaking at a church service in Manyatta, Embu County where he insisted that LGBTQ matters affect the lives of Kenyans and thus their input into the matter ought to be considered.

The Attorney General who was flanked by Anne Wamuratha, the Kiambu County women’s representative said that he will be moving to the Supreme court in the interests of the Kenyan people.

The ruling made on Friday has elicited heated debates between the proponents of the LGBTQ agenda and those against it especially the church and other religious organizations.

CITAM presiding bishop Calisto Odede on his part questioned the Apex court’s ruling, likening LGBTQ persons to what he called “illegal practitioners” such as pedophiles.

 

“This rather contradictory ruling has left many of us wondering whether other illegal practitioners like paedophiles and those involved in incest also have right of association and if not, how different they are from homosexuals. And perhaps criminal organisations as well,” he said in a statement.

 

Bishop Odede affirmed that the church will not cower from condemning such rulings, arguing that encouraging homosexual behaviour wrecks the cultural norms of Africa and stands against Christian doctrines.