The Benue State House of Assembly on
Wednesday passed a Bill to prohibit marriage contract between persons of
the same sex in the state.
Cited as Same Sex Marriage
Prohibition Law, 2018, the bill was passed at plenary after a clause by
clause consideration by the Committee of the whole presided over by the
Speaker, Mr Terkimbi Ikyange.
According to the bill, “a marriage
contract or civil union entered into between persons of same sex shall
not be solemnised in a Church, Mosque or any other place of worship in
Benue’’.
The bill also prohibited the registration or recognition
of gay clubs, societies, and organisations, their sustenance,
procession, and meeting as well as a public show of same sex amorous
relationship directly or indirectly.
It stipulated that any
person who entered into a same sex marriage contract or civil union
commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a term of 14 years
imprisonment.
Speaking after the third reading of the bill, the
Speaker said same sex union was alien to the culture and tradition of
the State and has to be prohibited.
The News Agency of Nigeria
recalls that former President Goodluck Jonathan signed into law the Bill
which outlawed same sex marriage in Nigeria on January 7, 2014, in
defiance of protests from some countries, groups, and activists.
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