Posted on 12/21/2015 7:59:11 AM PST by SeekAndFind
President Obama has spent at least $700 million promoting homosexual tolerance in Africa. Unfortunately, the initiative seems to have backfired:
Since 2012, the American government has put more than $700 million into supporting gay rights groups and causes globally. More than half of that money has focused on sub-Saharan Africa — just one indication of this continent’s importance to the new policy.
The U.S. support is making matters worse,” said Mike, 24, a university student studying biology in Minna, a town in centralNigeria who asked that his full name not be used for his safety. “There’s more resistance now. It’s triggered people’s defense mechanism.”
America’s money and public diplomacy have opened conversations and opportunities in societies where the subject was taboo just a few years ago. But they have also made gay men and lesbians more visible — and more vulnerable to harassment and violence, people on both sides of the gay rights issue contend. The American campaign has stirred misgivings among many African activists, who say they must rely on the West’s support despite often disagreeing with its strategies.
In Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, the final passage of the 2014 law against homosexuality — which makes same-sex relationships punishable by 14 years in prison and makes it a crime to organize or participate in any type of gay meeting — is widely regarded by both supporters and opponents of gay rights as a reaction to American pressure on Nigeria and other African nations to embrace gay rights.
Shortly after Nigeria’s law went into effect, Animashaun Azeez, 24, a university student here, arranged to meet somebody he had chatted with on Manjama,
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Ask Mike his tranny wife.
Come now, everyone.
If we expected Congress, let alone the Executive, to worry about a MERE $700M, they may soon get the notion we expect them to live up to the constraints of the Constitution of our Republic.
How would the gravy-train keep going if we lived up to THAT ideal!? What else is one expecting those hard-working elected reps to be doing with their time than ensuring We the People are taken care of, from cradle to grave. They are ‘the educated elites’, are they not!? They KNOW what’s best!
Really, that's the name they picked out for their gay social network? Manjama?
How do you pronounce that?
I would like to see how that money was spent and whose pockets the money went into. $700 million could fix alot of roads in the USA.
Too bad taxpayers aren’t represented in Congress.
This fruitcake needs to be keelhauled.
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