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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Great point, that isn’t even what I was thinking of.
I suppose he has diplomatic immunity, otherwise,.......... Wouldn’t his speaking out like that in Kenya be considered a criminal act?
Monstrous shill piece from Politico.
“No. Possession occurs when a demon enters a person.
Obama is the actual demon. He is Satan’s son.”
He is a demon. He’s pure evil.
Why in hell can’t most people see it?
I think he is as evil as Stalin or Hitler or .........
If ANYONE ever doubted whether or not Barack Obama is a homosexual and his marriage is a total sham...here’s your sign.
I love how Michelle and his kids stayed home...of all visits...they stayed back for this one. THIS tells you everything.
INTERESTING!! I had no idea the Mooch wasn’t with him!! I think the Mooch is having some kind of cosmetic surgery.....haven’t seen or heard of her in some time.
Doesn’t Obama’s criticism of Kenyans go against the current progressive philosophy which says it is impossible for minorities to be prejudiced?
I thought Africans were humanity perfected, incapable of sin, and all that ills Africans and the African diaspora is due to white people, and this white sin is congenital, those white people alive today are just as guilty as the slave traders of centuries ago.
Of course progressivism also teaches us homosexuals and transgenders are also humanity perfected, and all that ills them is due to straight people, and this is also congenital making all straights guilty.
So when one perfect people discriminate against another perfect people, which falls from grace? Obama has answered.
What an absolute narcissist that has no respect whatsoever for anyone else. The all knowing obama. His was or the highway. Ugh.
Then I got even more PO’d watching my local news covering this story about the trip and not mentioning ONE SINGLE WORD about his lecturing them about the gay agenda. The media is constantly covering up for him.
That’s funny. 0bama, a semi-black community organizer tells the wholly black president of Kenya that the homo struggle is akin to civil rights abuses . . . and the black man says, “No, it ain’t!”
I bet that puckered up the boy king’s Reggie hole.
These are sexual kinks the “president” of the United States is lecturing a 3rd world nation about being “ok” with IN FRONT OF CAMERAS!
Well Michelle Obama wasn’t on the trip I hear she did tape video for Special Olympics in LA
I would prefer they arrest him and keep him arrested, forever.
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