The East African Christian Alliance (EACA) has petitioned the government against casting blanket condemnations against all churches and the clergy every time a church or a church leader goes wrong.
The alliance at the same time discouraged the government from legalising same-sex relationships and marriages or registering organisations and associations supporting Lesbians, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) orientation.
Speaking in Nakuru, EACA Secretary General, Bishop Geoffrey Buliba of the Christian Brotherhood Church said the government through its security organs and the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) should punish individual clergymen or churches involved in criminal activities.
He observed that the government has been attempting to regulate churches every time there is an errant church.
“There was a recent attempt to regulate church after the discovery of mass deaths in Shakahola Forest where followers of Pastor Paul Makenzi of Good News International Church were starving themselves to death,” he said.
Buliba who was accompanied by other church leaders, among them EACA chairman, Bishop Richard Kivai observed that the government was once against threatening to regulate churches after police discovered a consignment of bhang, electronics and a slaughtered stolen goat on Monday.
“The leader of the said church should be closed and the leaders prosecuted in accordance to the law and let the rest of the churches operate under the governance and regulations of their respective associations,” he said.
Registration of religious institutions in Kenya is governed by the Societies Act Cap 108 under the Attorney General's Office, a law that Buliba says is sufficient.
He appealed to fellow clergymen to study theology so that they fully understand the bible and their practice.
His sentiments were echoed by Kivai who said there was no need for additional regulations for churches adding that the government should instead enforce the current laws.
He affirmed EACA’s stand against same-sex relationships saying that it was against the will of God and the rule of creation.
“God created a man and a woman to live together and replenish the earth’s human population through reproduction which cannot happen in same-sex marriages,” he said.
Kivai said it was unfortunate that the Government and the Judiciary were leaning towards legalising these kinds of relationships.
“This is one way of killing generations because there is no recreation when a man marries a man or a woman marries a woman,” he said.
Kivai who is also the bishop of the African Church and a lecturer at the Bible College of East Africa claimed that these are the end times when people are forsaking the truth.
