Kenya’s education ministry has initiated a crackdown on what it describes as LGBTQ agenda infiltration in schools.
According to Minister Ezekiel Machogu, the government would construct chaplaincies in schools.
There are concerns that the program will lead to misconceptions about LGBTQ persons and same-sex partnerships being taught in schools.
Homosexual intercourse remains illegal, but anti-gay sentiment has hardened in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision last month protecting the LGBT community’s ability to form an association.
According to the minister, a committee has already been formed to address LGBTQ issues in schools, and its mandate might include examining school books.
It will be led by an archbishop from Kenya’s Anglican Church.
The minister was responding to a senator who expressed concern about the proliferation of the LGBTQ agenda in primary schools.
