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Kenyan Leader to Obama: If He Brings 'Gay Agenda, We Will Tell Him to Shut Up and Go Home'
CNS ^ | July 7, 2015 | Patrick Goodenough

Posted on 07/07/2015 7:21:55 AM PDT by xzins

With the American and Kenyan flags behind him, then-Sen. Barack Obama speaks to students at University of Nairobi, Monday, Aug. 28, 2006. (AP File Photo) (CNSNews.com) – When he visits his father’s homeland in Africa later this month, President Obama is expected to run into vocal opposition over his administration’s high-profile promotion of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) issues.

Obama’s trip to Kenya, his first as president, is scheduled to take place four weeks after the White House was bathed in rainbow colors to mark the U.S. Supreme Court ruling declaring that same-sex marriage is a right.

At a small pro-family demonstration at the parliament in Nairobi Monday, organized by the Evangelical Alliance of Kenya, participants called on the American president not to raise the subject during his visit.

“It is important for us as Kenyans to know that the U.S. is not God,” local media quoted evangelical Bishop Mark Kariuki as saying, adding that Obama should not use the visit to “talk about the gay issue.”

Irungu Kangata, a lawmaker in President Uhuru Kenyatta’s The National Alliance (TNA) party, was blunter: “We are telling Mr. Obama when he comes to Kenya this month and he tries to bring the abortion agenda, the gay agenda, we shall tell him to shut up and go home.”

According to The Standard of Nairobi, Kangata said Kenyans would demonstrate against Obama over the issue during his visit.

Kenya’s The Daily Nation quoted several other lawmakers’ views on the matter.

“Anybody who tries to come and preach to this country that they should allow homosexuality, I think he’s totally lost,” said TNA lawmaker Jamleck Kamau.

“And I would also like to add, our son from the U.S., Barack Obama, when he comes here, to simply avoid that topic completely,” added Kamau, “because Kenyans will not be happy with him if he comes to bring the issue of homosexuality in this country.”

“Liberal thoughts are being entertained in some countries under the guise of human rights,” the speaker of the National Assembly, Justin Muturi, told an Anglican Church congregation. “We must be vigilant and guard against it. We must lead an upright society and not allow obnoxious behavior as we have a responsibility to protect our children.”

Rose Mitaru, one of 47 female lawmakers representing counties across the country, said that allowing same-sex marriage in Kenya would open “floodgates of evil synonymous with the biblical Sodom and Gomorrah.”

TNA lawmaker Cecily Mbarire urged the government to reject any foreign aid tied to efforts to legalize same-sex marriage.

On Sunday, Deputy President William Ruto delivered a church sermon in Nairobi in which he said homosexuality was “against the plan of God.”

“God did not create man and woman so that men would marry men and women marry women,” The Daily Nation quoted him as saying.

“Those who want to engage in those businesses, they can do it in their countries, and they can do it wherever it is they want. In Kenya, we will stand firm.”

White House press secretary Josh Earnest indicated Monday that Obama would not avoid the topic during his visit.

“We have been clear that when the president travels around the world, he does not hesitate to raise concerns about human rights,” he told a press briefing, in response to a question on the Kenyan criticism.

“I’m confident the president will not hesitate to make clear that the protection of basic universal human rights in Kenya is also a priority and consistent with the values that we hold dear here in the United States of America,” Earnest said.

‘Everybody has to be treated equally’

Obama is scheduled to visit Kenya later this month to open the sixth Global Entrepreneurship Summit, an Obama initiative aimed at promoting entrepreneurship, particularly in Muslim societies. He will then visit Ethiopia for bilateral and African Union meetings. It will be his fourth trip to sub-Saharan Africa during his presidency.

Homosexuality is frowned on in many African countries, both Christian and Muslim. The Obama administration’s State Department has made promotion of LGBT issues a foreign policy priority.

Obama’s last visit to the continent coincided with the June 2013 U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the Defense of Marriage Act, and the LGBT question came up during a joint press appearance with Senegalese President Macky Sall.

Asked about the issue of homosexuality in Africa, Obama said he believed that “every country, every group of people, every religion have different customs, different traditions.”

“But when it comes to how the state treats people, how the law treats people, I believe that everybody has to be treated equally,” he said. “I don’t believe in discrimination of any sort. That’s my personal view.”

In his response, Sall said Senegal was not ready to change to decriminalize homosexuality, and that countries should respect each other’s choices.

He also said Senegal “does not discriminate in terms of inalienable rights of the human being.”

According to data compiled by the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA), same-sex sexual acts are illegal in 76 countries around the world, 36 of them in Africa.

In May 2014, the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights, which reports to the African Union, passed a resolution calling on African countries to “end all acts of violence and abuse … including those targeting persons on the basis of their imputed or real sexual orientation or gender identities, ensuring proper investigation and diligent prosecution of perpetrators, and establishing judicial procedures responsive to the needs of victims.”


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KEYWORDS: abortion; africa; deathpanels; homosexualagenda; homosexuality; obama; obamaafricatrip; obamacare; obamakenyatrip; zerocare
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To: xzins
I guess Obama's communist pal (possible 'cousin'), Raila Odinga, is no longer president of Kenya?

"When Raila Odinga lost the presidential election last week (12/27/2007) to Mwai Kibaki, he claimed the vote was rigged, whereupon his tribal followers went on murderous rampages such as in the town of Eldoret, where on New Years Day dozens of people were burned to death in a church set on fire. Throughout Kenya, hundreds of people have been politically murdered in the last few days."
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Up to 1,000 killed in Kenyan crisis: Odinga
AOL India Editorial
Last Updated: January 07, 2008

Odinga, who turned 63 on Monday, faces a dilemma of responding to international pressure to avoid provoking more violence while also maintaining momentum to oust Kibaki.

http://www.aol.in/news/story/2008010710489019000001/
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From Atlas Shrugs:
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/kenyas_killing_fields/index.html

"...this hasn't even gotten into the relationship between Obama and Raila Odinga, yet another politician who ran on the 'hope & change' theme while utilizing criminal ties, who would then stage a violent and bloody uprising when national elections didn't go his way. Somehow we don't hear much about the nightly phone calls between Sen. Obama and Raila Odinga these days..."

Kenya's first truly free and fair democratic election was in December 2002, won by Mwai Kibaki and a multi-ethnic coalition party NARC (National Rainbow Coalition). One of the leaders of that coalition was Raila Odinga.

Kibaki didn't give him positions in the new government that he felt were important enough, so Odinga formed an opposition party, ODM (Orange Democratic Movement, orange the symbol color of opposition).

When Raila Odinga lost the presidential election last week (12/27/2007) to Mwai Kibaki, he claimed the vote was rigged, whereupon his tribal followers went on murderous rampages such as in the town of Eldoret, where on New Years Day dozens of people were burned to death in a church set on fire.

Throughout Kenya, hundreds of people have been politically murdered in the last few days.

Kenya's 37 million people are divided up into over three dozen tribes and sub-tribes, but the two dominant ones are Kikuyu and Luo. Kenyan politics since independence in 1963 has essentially been a duke-out between them.

The father of Kenyan independence and president until 1978 was Jomo Kenyatta, a Kikuyu. His main political opponent was Oginga Odinga, known as "OO," a Luo and Raila's father.

While Kenyatta was pro-West and sided with America in the Cold War, OO [Oginga Odinga, Raila's father] was a Communist who was aided and supported by the Soviet Union.

That's why Raila went to school in East Germany (born in 1945, he graduated from Magdeburg University in 1970), and named his first-born son after Fidel Castro.

Thus it likely won't shock you to learn that Raila has now made a deal for support from the Soviets' successors as world-champion enemies of the West and democratic freedoms: Moslem fundamentalists.

The Evangelical Alliance of Kenya has posted on its website a photograph copy of a Memorandum of Understanding, dated and signed on August 29, 2007, between Raila Odinga and Shiekh Abdullah Abdi, chairman of the National Muslim Leaders Forum of Kenya.

It pledges the support of Kenyan Moslems for Raila's election. In return, as President of Kenya, Raila agrees to 14 actions, listed a) through n) on page two. Read them all, and be sure you're sitting down. Here's a sample:

b) Within 6 months re-write the Constitution of Kenya to recognize Shariah as the only true law sanctioned by the Holy Quran for Muslim declared regions.

c) With immediate effect dismiss the Commissioner of Police who has allowed himself to be used by heathens and Zionists to oppress the Kenyan Muslim community.

g) Within one year facilitate the establishment of a Shariah court in every Kenyan divisional headquarters. [Note: everywhere in Kenya, not just in "Muslim declared regions."]

Again, read all of them, for others are just as bad or worse.

It may also not surprise you that Raila is not Moslem himself, but claims to be a practicing Anglican. Only a minority of Luo are Moslem (most are Christian). Kenya on the whole is Christian, with 80% of Kenyans either Protestant or Roman Catholic, while only 10% are Moslem.

And here is the biggest non-surprise: Raila Odinga has, in his own words, a "close personal friendship" with Barrack Hussein Obama Junior.

When Obama went to Kenya in August of 2006, he was hosted by Raila and spoke in praise of him at rallies in Nairobi:

Much more at:
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/kenyas_killing_fields/index.html

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MUST SEE VIDEO OF OBAMA IN KENYA CAMPAIGNING FOR MARXIST THUG/"COUSIN" ODINGA!

"Barack Obama and Raila Odinga -- Did the Illinois senator violate the Logan Act in campaigning for his 'genocidist' cousin's bid for the Kenyan presidency?":
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=obama+odinga ____________________________________________________________

January 8, 2008
Odinga says Obama is his cousin


Split picture Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga (l) and US presidential hopeful Senator Barack Obama (r) Mr Obama (r) is descended from the same Luo tribe as Mr Odinga (l)

Odinga on Obama
Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga has said he is a cousin of US presidential hopeful Barack Obama.

Mr Odinga told the BBC's The World Today that Senator Obama's father was his maternal uncle.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7176683.stm

41 posted on 07/07/2015 7:59:22 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: xzins

....getting pop corn ready, icing down the Pepsi....this is going to be good...a rat without a country...LMAO...I love this!!!


42 posted on 07/07/2015 8:02:58 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 (Send 'slob boy of the oval office' back to Kenya ASAP, and save America...)
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To: Red Badger

Considering what America has become, he’s definitely an American.


43 posted on 07/07/2015 8:13:48 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: xzins
he's offending tens of millions in the US with this bathhouse bs.

why shouldn't he force it on the closed minded folks of kenya?

do it, barry

44 posted on 07/07/2015 8:17:50 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: xzins
Like I said, he’s not worthy of Kenya. Is he the classic “Man without a country”?

We don't even know his real name, let alone his country. Is he Soetoro or Obama? Barry or Barack?

He is truly Patient Zero in the new movement to "self identify"

45 posted on 07/07/2015 8:18:11 AM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: null and void

“I sure hope no muslims throw him off a tall building for being gay”

Now, now...let’s not be hasty.


46 posted on 07/07/2015 8:21:34 AM PDT by Gideon300
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To: ETL

Correction: Raila Odinga apparently never made it to president of Kenya. He was instead Prime Minister of Kenya.


47 posted on 07/07/2015 8:23:10 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: xzins
Follow-up headline:

Obama Decides to Put American Embassy to Israel in Kenya

48 posted on 07/07/2015 8:31:08 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: ETL
[1982] “Raila [Odinga] was placed under house arrest for seven months after evidence pointing to himself and his late father Oginga Odinga collaborating with the plotters of a failed coup attempt against President Daniel arap Moi in 1982, in which hundreds of Kenyan citizens and thousands of rebel soldiers died. Several foreigners also lost their lives. Raila was later charged with treason and detained without trial for six years.[8]

A biography released in July 2006 indicated that Raila was far more involved in the attempted coup than he had previously claimed. After its publication, some MPs called for Raila to be arrested and charged,[9] but the statute of limitations had already passed and, since the information was contained in a biography, Raila could not be said to have openly confessed his involvement.[10] His mother died in 1984, but it took the prison wardens two months to inform him of her death.[citation needed]

Released on 6 February 1988, he was rearrested in September 1988 for his involvement with human rights and pro-democracy activists[11] pressing for multi-party democracy in Kenya, which was then a one-party state. To his political followers, he is also referred as “Agwambo”, the meaning of which is difficult to specify, or “Jakom”, meaning Chairman.

Raila was released on 12 June 1989, only to be incarcerated again on 5 July 1990, together with Kenneth Matiba, and former Nairobi Mayor Charles Rubia.[12] Raila was released on 21 June 1991, and in October, he fled the country to Norway with a hint that the corrupt Kenyan government attempted unsuccessfully to assassinate him.[13]”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raila_Odinga#Detention
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49 posted on 07/07/2015 8:38:08 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: trebb

Yes, but is Jerusalem the capital of Kenya now?

:>)


50 posted on 07/07/2015 8:39:41 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Pray for their victory or quit saying you support our troops)
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To: xzins
Yes, but is Jerusalem the capital of Kenya now?

:>)

Give Obama and company (UN) time...no telling how the map will look if things keep going this way.

The only sure thing is that Israel and a select number will be around when God decides to set things straight.

51 posted on 07/07/2015 8:42:25 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: trebb
The only sure thing is that Israel and a select number will be around when God decides to set things straight.

And after the Scotus decision might not be that far off.

52 posted on 07/07/2015 8:43:47 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Pray for their victory or quit saying you support our troops)
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To: null and void

Can’t help who Laz likes or doesn’t like and don’t care.


53 posted on 07/07/2015 9:05:31 AM PDT by bkepley
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To: C. Edmund Wright
My wife travels a lot to East Africa - mainly Uganda - but she says East Africans think American blacks are CRAZY.

They also think America is a prime mission field for evangelism.

54 posted on 07/07/2015 9:39:56 AM PDT by polymuser ( Enough is enough)
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To: xzins

I detest gay marriage and the vulgar spectacle of gay rights parades, but you won’t catch me praising these savages in Africa whose greatest life accomplishment is sticking a bone in their nose.


55 posted on 07/07/2015 10:14:44 AM PDT by eater-of-toast ("It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones." --Calvin Coolidge)
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To: eater-of-toast
If you look at all countries who have advanced...and those who haven't ...for the most part those who live where it's really hot do not thrive nor do they advance.

Africa, India come to mind and others south of the equator or near to it. Until recently they had no air-conditioning...so their cultures have not advanced. We all know what it's like to work in soaring hot temps. So living in that year round does make a difference.

56 posted on 07/07/2015 10:17:35 AM PDT by caww
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To: xzins

Ouch. That’s gotta sting Mr. Resident.


57 posted on 07/07/2015 10:49:37 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (An Oath is Forever)
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To: PLD

Who is that he is kissing? When and where did it happen?


58 posted on 07/07/2015 10:55:41 AM PDT by rey
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To: C. Edmund Wright
My wife travels a lot to East Africa - mainly Uganda - but she says East Africans think American blacks are CRAZY.

I worked with 5 or 6, and I can assure you, that is true.

59 posted on 07/07/2015 1:01:29 PM PDT by Mark17 (Thy goodness faileth never. Good shepherd may I sing thy praise, within thy house forever. Amen)
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To: xzins

And when he pulls out wads of (our) cash and begins throwing into the air, suddenly the tune changes to, “We love the gay!”


60 posted on 07/07/2015 1:44:34 PM PDT by ponygirl (An Appeal to Heaven.)
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