The Liberian Senate has passed a law restricting the act of homosexuality and lesbianism in Liberia.
The Chairman of the Senate committee on Judiciary, Claims, Petition; Senator Joseph Nagbe of Sinoe County in the close of his Committee?s
After an investigation on the Bill for an Act amending and restating section 2.3 of the Domestic Relations Law of Liberia, the Senate Committee on Judiciary, has recommended a big ?NO? to same sex relationships and/or marriage in Liberia.
Sinoe County Senator, Joseph Nagbe, who chairs the Judiciary Committee, said in his reports that the Bill seeks to emphasize that the Domestic laws of Liberia gave no effect to any public act, record, or judicial proceeding which represents a relationship between persons of the same sex that is treated as a marriage under the laws of the state.
The document also pointed out that laws in Liberia should consider the practice as a violation of the prohibition and a second degree felony.
The Senate?s act also states that ?No marriage shall be contracted between persons, one or both of whom has a spouse still living; not between an ancestor and a descendant, a brother and sister of either the whole or the half blood, an uncle niece or an aunt, nephew, first cousins; or of persons of the same sex.?
Liberia is under pressure to respect rights of people to engage in same sex relationships, while views are mixed ?mixed with other publicly supporting the practice while others think it should never be allowed to happen, branding it ??demonic?.
The Senate also said the law shall hold any Liberian and/or Liberians involved in the act abroad and entered into the Country and similarly engaged in said act.
Liberia?s traditional ally, the United States of America for instance allows same-sex relationships. Marriage has been made legal through court rulings and legislative action, in some states. But twelve other states in the US prohibit same-sex marriage in statute and thirty prohibit it in the state?s constitution.
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