Posted on 07/25/2015 5:56:26 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
NAIROBI, Kenya – President Barack Obama and Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta sparred over support for gay rights here Saturday, with Obama urging fast changes and Kenyatta saying it was not something Kenyan culture or society would “accept.”
Linking LGBT discrimination in Africa to the history of Jim Crow laws in America, Obama said ensuring gay rights must be a priority on a continent — and in a country — where bias against gays is accepted, and violence against gays is common.
Standing by Obama’s side at a joint press conference here in front of the Kenyan state house, Kenyatta repeated what he has said before about gay rights: it’s “a non-issue.”
Kenyatta’s remarks were the ones that drew applause among the Kenyan audience.
Obama, though, delivered a firm message: People may have their own personal biases, he said, but the government has a responsibility to make sure those are not part of the law.
“As an African-American in the United States, I am painfully aware of the history of what happens when people are treated differently under the law,” Obama said. “There were all sorts of rationalizations that were provided by the power structure for decades in the United States for segregation and Jim Crow and slavery, and they were wrong.”
Kenyatta went on to offer that kind of rationalization, arguing that he and his people are more concerned with economic growth, among other things.
“For Kenyans today, the issue of gay rights is really a non-issue. We want to focus on other issues that really are day-to-day issues for our people,” Kenyatta said.
Throughout Obama’s supportive response, Kenyatta’s body language was clearly uncomfortable, fidgeting at the podium.
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Go home, homo-American. Zero is sooo arrogant.
Is Obama Possessed?
The guy who pushes gay rights wants to give a nuke to psychopaths who regularly hang gays. Makes sense.
BO is a complete Ahole
To go into Kenya and try to make an issue of something Kenyans don’t see as an issue
and to make it in front of the country’s President
Everytime I think I can’t think less of this POS he does something to prove me wrong’
No. Possession occurs when a demon enters a person.
Obama is the actual demon. He is Satan's son.
Even his homeland won’t have any of his foolishness?
But I thought he was loved everywhere.
They ejected him from Kenya for a reason.
Can you imagine you are the Kenyan President, and this guy Obama comes over and everyone treats him like a hero because of the Kenyan connection, and then you get him in a private meeting and he starts pushing gayness? LOL LOL LOL! Out of ALL the problems in the world, all the problems in that country, what does he push? Homo gayness LOL LOL
Freedom of Faggotry and Global Warming Hoax are his biggest priorities.
That and arming jihadists.
Satan Smiles
A member of Kenya’s Parliament proposed a Bill in 2014 that gave the death penalty.
Another Parliament Member said that homosexuality in Kenya is as bad a problem as terrorism.
Zer0 had best not honeymoon there with Reg as a civilian.
Good for you Uhuru! The bastard csn’t run America properly and he goes off lecturing other people!
I wonder if Reggie Love was in his entourage...
This
THIS is EXACTLY how the GOP and Conservatives can win the black vote in America. Simply educating America.
I’m surprised they even let the tsob* in their country! Series Less
thats twisted SOB*
Most Africans reject mixed race,half black people.Had he grew up there most likely he would not be alive today.
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