Senate will outlaw same sex marriage ' Mark

Senate President David Mark has rejected the proposal for same sex marriage in the country saying that the Senate will outlaw it. Speaking at a public hearing on a bill for an act to outlaw same sex marriage in Nigeria, Senator Mark said 'My faith as Christian abhors it. It is incomprehensible to contemplate on same sex marriage. I cannot understand it. I cannot be a party to it. There are enough men and women to marry each other. The whole idea is the importation of foreign culture but this one would be a freedom too many. We cannot allow our tradition and value system eroded.'Mark added that, 'It is offensive. It is repugnant. I will preach against it and we must stand up to reject same sex marriages in Nigeria.'However, a self-confessed lesbian, who gave her name as Dr. Obiowu and spoke on behalf of Nigerians in diaspora against anti-sex laws, described the move to outlaw same sex marriage as a gross violation of their fundamental human right.She said lesbians and others deserved to be allowed to live their lives since Nigeria is a secular state saying, 'Fundamental human rights of sexual minorities are violated because of criminalisation of same sex marriage'.'If we are all same sex how do we produce human beings who have human rights'' asked Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba (PDP, Cross Rivers Central).Senators on the committee have vowed to pass the law since according to them it is a taboo.
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