Parliament is supreme to court - State :: Mmegi Online

The State, in its effort to fight the decriminalisation of same sex conduct, says it is Parliament not court that was tasked with changing policies in relation to law and the Constitution following the previous decision won by litigants permitting such.

The State has been relying heavily on the issue of morality since the case started and believes that opinions might have changed with regards to the society’s feelings about homosexuality in the country, but says it’s only the legislature that has the power to effect change on the matter.

State legal representative, Advocate Sidney Pilane on Tuesday before a full bench of the Court of Appeal (CoA) submitted that as much as opinions have changed, it is Parliament that was supposed to effect change with regards to gay rights but not the court as argued by the respondents in the appeal.

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