New Anti-Homosexuality Bill Mandates Gay People Being Stoned To Death

The world’s newest Anti-Homosexuality Bill (AHB) mandates the stoning to death of gay people for “aggravated homosexuality.”

In the wake of Uganda‘s Constitutional Court negating its country’s highly-controversial Anti-Homosexuality Law — previously known as the “Kill The Gays” bill — neighboring Kenya is now working to pass a bill that would mandate the death penalty — by stoning — of gay people. The law mirrors in part one ushered in earlier this year by the Sultan of Brunei for his island nation.

The Republican Liberty Party’s legal secretary Edward Onwong’a Nyakeriga, is the petitioner, or sponsor of the legislation, which is currently being reviewed by the Justice and Legal Affairs committee of Kenya’s National Assembly. Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta, the President of Kenya, has not yet weighed in on the bill.

Kenya’s Daily Nation reports the bill “provides for the offence of sodomy which would earn life imprisonment.”

They propose death by stoning in public for any foreigner who commits a homosexual act and a life imprisonment for Kenyan nationals found guilty.

Anyone found guilty of aggravated homosexuality would also be stoned to death in public.

Aggravated homosexuality in this case would include committing the acts with people below 18 years, if the offender is a person living with HIV, if those persons committing the act are persons in authority over their victims, serial offenders and where a victim is a person with a disability.

Edward Onwong’a Nyakeriga “states that the Bill aims at strengthening the nation’s capacity to deal with emerging internal and external threats to the traditional heterosexual family.”

“There is need to protect children and youth who are vulnerable to sexual abuse and deviation as a result of cultural changes, uncensored information technology, parentless child developmental settings and increasing attempts by homosexuals to raise children in homosexual relationships through adoption, foster care or otherwise,” the petitioner states.

 

Here in America, one Tea Party candidate, Scott Esk, running for the Oklahoma House of Representatives recently came under fire for announcing he supports stoning to death of gay people, based on his religious beliefs. “I think we would be totally in the right” to stone gay people to death, Esk said in a Facebook conversation. He also quoted the bible — including Leviticus 20:13 — and added, “ignoring as a nation things that are worthy of death is very remiss.”

And earlier this year, Pastor Kevin Swanson and his Christian radio co-host Dave Buehner spent a few minutes just days before the Rose Bowl parade pondering what might happen if there were a public stoning of a gay person during the annual parade.

 

Hat tip: Gay Star News
Image: Mtwapa Police Station, Kenya. Photo by BBC World Service via Flickr and a CC license