Local church leaders yesterday differed with South African Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu's views on homosexuality and asked Kenyans to ignore them.
The group of inter-denominational clerics also asked delegates to the National Constitutional Conference to block a section of the draft which they claimed "leaves an open window for the official sanctioning and recognition of same-sex marriages".
The review talks resume at Bomas of Kenya, Nairobi, on Monday.
The Federation of Churches in Kenya, an umbrella independent church organisation, described Archbishop Tutu's remarks in Nairobi as "shocking and unfortunate "as they flout biblical principles".
The anti-apartheid campaigner was on a one-day visit.
The clerics backed Anglican Archbishop Benjamin Nzimbi stand on the controversy which was kicked off by the recent election of Bishop Canon Gene Robinson, an openly homosexual priest in the US.
In a statement read by Pastor David Oginde of the Nairobi Pentecostal Church, the six said: "We were shocked to hear the remarks attributed to our esteemed visitor that sexual orientation is not an issue in a Christian leader, and that a homosexual leader should remain celibate."
The statement was signed also by the Rev John Gichinga, the Rev Margaret Wanjiru and the Rev Robert Mahiri who represented the Nairobi Baptist Church, the Nairobi Lighthouse Church, the Kenya Assemblies of God, the Foursquare Gospel Church and the Jesus Is Alive Ministries.
They said they were dismayed by the retired archbishop's statement, adding that the word of God is clear and specific on the issue which they maintained was not a matter of orientation, opinion or interpretation.
"This is a matter of obedience," the leaders said, adding that they were unable to understand how a church leader could wilfully and continuously continue to disobey God and still consider themselves Christians.