The popular thing that happen in United State is about to happen in Nigeria; where same sex marriage was legalized. Nigeriapilot reported that Catholic women in Abuja Archdiocese have planned a protest march today to the National Assembly, against the alleged bill in favour of same-sex marriage pending before the legislature.
Women in the archdiocese were mobilised at different parishes yesterday, to come out en masse for the protest, which has received the support of the Most Rev John Onaiyekan, the Catholic Archbishop of Abuja.
Onaiyekan has been one of the vocal opponents of same sex marriage, which he describes as unbiblical.
At the Holy Rosary Parish, Wuse, the parish priest, Rev. Fr. Jerome Bello, urged the Catholic Women Organisation of the parish to moblise her members to participate in the protest.
Fr. Bello described same sex marriage as immoral before God and should not be allowed to be legalised in the country. The cleric wondered why the legislators should be occupied with legalizing acts like gay marriage and prostitution, when unemployment, insecurity, poverty, epileptic power supply, among others were making life unbearable for Nigerians.
The women are expected to present the position of the church to the legislators regarding the same sex marriage.
A private bill on same sex marriage was presented to the sixth National Assembly. There is fear that the issue may re-echo again on the floor of both chambers.
Same sex marriage was recently passed in some parts of the United States of America and also supported by the Anglican Church in some countries, hence the clamour for it by some people in Nigeria.
In a related development, Nigeria’s anti-sexual harassment law is to be amended to make offenders suffer stiffer punishment.
Under the law, employers of labour in public and private workplaces shall be required to deal dispassionately with all reported cases of sexual harassment.
A communiqué reached at a roundtable sponsored by the Nigerian Law Reform Commission, NLRC, in Abuja, proposed that the law must criminalise the ugly trend in the nation, especially with the recent reports of rape in some tertiary institutions in the country.
According to the discussants, the planned law must apply to the general public and examine if the mode of a female’s dressing can be relevant to what constitutes a sexual harassment.
Justice U.P. Kekemeke of the FCT High Court also discussed the place of the penal code, which did not cover sexual harassment, and the need to carefully study the existing law and amend where necessary.
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Women in the archdiocese were mobilised at different parishes yesterday, to come out en masse for the protest, which has received the support of the Most Rev John Onaiyekan, the Catholic Archbishop of Abuja.
Onaiyekan has been one of the vocal opponents of same sex marriage, which he describes as unbiblical.
At the Holy Rosary Parish, Wuse, the parish priest, Rev. Fr. Jerome Bello, urged the Catholic Women Organisation of the parish to moblise her members to participate in the protest.
Fr. Bello described same sex marriage as immoral before God and should not be allowed to be legalised in the country. The cleric wondered why the legislators should be occupied with legalizing acts like gay marriage and prostitution, when unemployment, insecurity, poverty, epileptic power supply, among others were making life unbearable for Nigerians.
The women are expected to present the position of the church to the legislators regarding the same sex marriage.
A private bill on same sex marriage was presented to the sixth National Assembly. There is fear that the issue may re-echo again on the floor of both chambers.
Same sex marriage was recently passed in some parts of the United States of America and also supported by the Anglican Church in some countries, hence the clamour for it by some people in Nigeria.
In a related development, Nigeria’s anti-sexual harassment law is to be amended to make offenders suffer stiffer punishment.
Under the law, employers of labour in public and private workplaces shall be required to deal dispassionately with all reported cases of sexual harassment.
A communiqué reached at a roundtable sponsored by the Nigerian Law Reform Commission, NLRC, in Abuja, proposed that the law must criminalise the ugly trend in the nation, especially with the recent reports of rape in some tertiary institutions in the country.
According to the discussants, the planned law must apply to the general public and examine if the mode of a female’s dressing can be relevant to what constitutes a sexual harassment.
Justice U.P. Kekemeke of the FCT High Court also discussed the place of the penal code, which did not cover sexual harassment, and the need to carefully study the existing law and amend where necessary.
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