Tue Sep 27, 2022 – 1:32 pm EDTTue Sep 27, 2022 – 1:52 pm EDT
NAIROBI, Kenya (LifeSiteNews) – A cultural and political fight for the family continues in Kenya with attacks from both the West and the East as the country enforces laws prohibiting LGBTQ content in movies and warns women against an illegal and highly dangerous Chinese birth control pill.
Christopher Wambua, acting CEO of the Kenya Film Classification Board (KFCB), said in an interview on Friday that any film containing LGBTQ content is illegal in Kenya and cannot be marketed or broadcast within the country.
“As we rate and classify content,” Wambua said, “we also consider other applicable laws. If there is any content that normalizes, glorifies same-sex relationships, our position in Kenya has always been to restrict and not to broadcast, exhibit, or distribute that kind of content within the borders of the country.”
According to the KFCB, such films violate Article 165 of the Penal Code, which outlaws homosexuality, as well as the provisions of the Films and Stage Plays Act, Capp 222, of the laws of Kenya.
Just last year the KFCB restricted the film I am Samuel because of
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