Posted on 06/18/2010 4:45:24 PM PDT by NYer
NAIROBI, Kenya, June 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden travelled to Kenya to personally urge the country to pass a new constitution that would legalize abortion - and to assure Kenyans that such a change would "allow money to flow" from foreign aid treasuries.
At the same time, a federal probe is attempting to determine whether the Obama Administration is violating federal law by using taxpayer money to lobby for the constitution, deeply controversial in Kenya in large part because of its abortion provisions.
"We are hopeful, Barack Obama is hopeful, I am hopeful that you will carry out these reforms to allow money to flow," Biden told a crowd of Kenyans, among whom President Obama is extremely popular and touted as a native son of their country.
A clause in the proposed constitution has received heavy criticism from religious leaders in Kenya for allowing abortion when a mother's "health" is endangered - a term that, as abortion advocates admitted at the Women Deliver conference in Washington, D.C. last week, "can be broadly interpreted when need be."
Asked about the abortion issue, Biden told Rev. Timothy Njoya not to confuse that with the position of the US President, US Vice President and US Government," according to Kenya's Daily Nation.
Yet some are not so sure that such a line can be drawn. Last month, 3 U.S. congressmen with legal oversight jurisdiction over federal international funds launched a probe into whether the Obama administration is violating federal law by promoting the controversial constitution.
The Obama Administrations advocacy in support of Kenyas proposed constitution may constitute a serious violation of the Siljander Amendment and, as such, may be subject to civil and criminal penalties under the Antideficiency Act," wrote Reps. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) in a May 6 letter to Inspectors General of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development.
The Siljander Amendment of the State, Foreign Operations Appropriations Act, reads: None of the funds made available under this Act may be used to lobby for or against abortion."
The lawmakers pointed out that the abortion issue is prominent in the public debate over the proposed document, and that the chairman of Kenyas Committee of Experts on Constitutional Review identified abortion as "one of the four most contentious issues in the proposed constitution.
Rep. Smith said that as much as $10 million in taxpayer funds may have been spent in support of the pro-abortion constitution as of May.
So Joe “The Jester” Biden, a Catholic, is bribing a country to promote abortion? I’d like to see him justify that in the confessional.
Too many black babies in the world, Joe?
Please remind me. Is Joe Biden still taking communion?
Yeah. At the church of Molech.
what a find catholic he is and guess what...no hail mary’s
These EVIL people want to kill even more babies courtesy of the US taxpayer. Make me wonder why they focus on africa so much. Do they really hate black people that much?
Shortly after the shamwow election, rahm made a trip to Kenya. No reason stated. Kenya keeps coming up as the destination of lots of people in this admin.
Why are they so interested in Kenya? And why are all of obama’s records still sealed? He got a judge to unseal sealed records of his senatoral opponant. Hello?
Obama is kenyan for illegal alien.
This is way over the top! Biden is despicable. Too bad his mother didn’t believe in abortion.
>>Yea Father just keep giving him Holy Communion.<<
Bishop Malooly has publicly stated that he is not in favor of using the Eucharist as a “political tool” and that he will continue to dialog with Biden.
OK, dialog all you want while Biden continues to tell us all what a wonderful Catholic he is and thumb his nose at Church teaching.
It was purely an illustrative question/statement pointing out the level of stupidity and self destruction born into certain peoples.
Allegations of US interference in Kenyan constitution referendum
By Ecumenical News International
20 May 2010
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/12190
We do not understand if all Americans agree with Obama that he can use American money to fund a yes campaign in Kenya, said the Rev Peter Karanja, the General Secretary of the National Council of Churches of Kenya, on 30 April in Nairobi.
Karanja said that many American Christians were standing with their fellow believers in the East African country.
Anglican, Evangelical, Protestant and Catholic churches have said they will oppose the draft law, which they argue entrenches Kadhi courts, as the Islamic courts are called.
They also say it will encourage abortion and reduce freedom of worship.
In America there are lobbies fighting for increased worship space.
Those will not be pleased to see a law passed that contradicts their values.
It is imprudent for the administration to use their money to fund what they do not agree with, said Karanja.
The US lawmakers wrote:
The Obama Administrations advocacy in support of Kenyas proposed constitution may constitute a serious violation of the Siljander Amendment and, as such, may be subject to civil and criminal penalties under the Antideficiency Act.
Ecumenical News International
Right.
For those in the billionaire clubs, globalist and Malthusian foundations, and elite secret society cabals who are obsessed with population control, the motives are linked with eugenics and racist ideology. Hence, the targets of their policies - Third World countries and minorities.
It has little to do with “women’s rights” as they like to claim. Although stupidly and ironically their ideology has helped to depopulate Western countries and the educated population with a disaster looming in the demographic crash which will have an impact on retirement plans, social security, and the economies of these countries. Sanger, Planned Parenthood, the Rockefeller Foundation and all of the other pro-abortion population control kooks have helped create this disaster (which was originally racist and linked with eugenics and Social Darwinism).
Biden and Obama are just their moronic hand puppets and useful idiots. They get paid to promote this.
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