"I want to talk to you about the gay man..."
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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Jesus once said to some hypocritical, murderous leaders: “You are of your father, the Devil” John 8.
Anti-Christ
So bathhouse Barry just couldn’t keep his big mouth shut about homosexuality - even in his homeland after its government told him not to push homo sex there. Another country trashed and alienated from America by Barry.
precursor
I hope and pray that our enemies will heed those lectures Obama gives.
Unless you're a Tea Partier, then the rules are easily broken and then lied about on the JonnyCake Stewart Clown Club.
"I want to talk to you about the gay man..."
That would be governments controlled by Democrats, right, Hussein?
Now why didn’t Obama make this an issue in the negotiations with Iran? They would have laughed Kerry out of the country, and we wouldn’t have ended up with this abominable agreement.
segregation, slavery, Jim Crow
“I am painfully aware” (Obama)
Barry’s been grabbing Aff. Act. bennies with both hands all his life.
Who does he think he’s kidding?
And for the millionth time, he compares being black to being a homo.
See, Mistuh President. Kenya has a 40% unemployment rate, and $1,700/year per capita income. Those are what they call REAL problems — NOT whether or not a sodomite can feel good about himself.
Perhaps Kenya should start sending missionaries to the US.
The real dig by Kenyatta, for whom I’d trade Obama any day based on this exchange, was naming “entrepreneurship” as a shared American- Kenyan value. Obama has no use for it, valuing it far below “tribalism,” which Kenya is trying to move away from.
RE: The real dig by Kenyatta, for whom I’d trade Obama any day based on this exchange, was naming “entrepreneurship” as a shared American- Kenyan value.
Did Obama tell him “You didn’t build that” ?
Stupid is as stupid does.
He was publicly warned before the trip and he did it anyway.
The Kenyans should follow through and boot his ass out of the country.
First world problems.
Didn’t someone say FUBO?
Obama must have hit on him..
Kenyans to Obama: “Have you ever heard of AIDS? Get lost, fag.”
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