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Obama spent $700 million promoting homosexual tolerance abroad
American Thinker ^ | 12/21/2015 | Ed Straker

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: homosexuality; obama; tolerance
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1 posted on 12/21/2015 7:59:11 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

if it had been HIS money to spend, It could be pretty much ignored

700K of OUR money on the other hand...should not be


2 posted on 12/21/2015 8:02:08 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><> GO CRUZ!!!!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Just a small dent in His travel budget. /s


3 posted on 12/21/2015 8:03:54 AM PST by sasquatch
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To: SeekAndFind

Un freakin believable. Who authorized this or is it more of the same, he just does what the hell he wants? We got vets who can’t get medical help, and this pr*ck is blowing almost a BILLION bucks on promoting sodomy?? WTF?


4 posted on 12/21/2015 8:04:19 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Can we please kill the guy already who invented the saying "My bad"?)
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To: MeshugeMikey

RE: 700K of OUR money on the other hand...should not be

Make that 700 M as in MILLION !!


5 posted on 12/21/2015 8:04:26 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Forcing Obama’s new “American values” on small, 3rd world countries?

Sounds like Imperialism.

I wonder what leftist college professors will say about it?


6 posted on 12/21/2015 8:04:28 AM PST by PGR88
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s like the Left never read “The Ugly American”, or perhaps just that it doesn’t apply to them.


7 posted on 12/21/2015 8:05:44 AM PST by tanknetter
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

If we had a Congress worth a damn his worthless a*s would have been impeached years ago.


8 posted on 12/21/2015 8:07:25 AM PST by Marathoner (Cruz or Lose 2016)
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To: SeekAndFind

ahahaha See It really is so outlandish... I couldnt even keep the AMOUNT straight.

700 Million simply isnt a part of my “world view”

Thanks


9 posted on 12/21/2015 8:24:52 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><> GO CRUZ!!!!)
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To: SeekAndFind

This stuff, not Donald Trump, is the big recruitment tool for Isis. They hate us for our social liberalism.


10 posted on 12/21/2015 8:26:29 AM PST by djpg
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To: SeekAndFind

So, the question becomes, is BHO a peter puffer?


11 posted on 12/21/2015 8:28:16 AM PST by exnavy (good gun control: two hands, one shot, one kill.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The homosexuals love it when one of their own is in power and has mucho dinero to ‘blow’.


12 posted on 12/21/2015 8:29:13 AM PST by HomerBohn (Liberals and slinkies: they're good for nothing, but you smile as you shove them down the stairs.)
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To: Marathoner

What breathtaking hypocrisy— taxpayers forced to cough up 700 million bucks by an intolerant-of -Biblical-morality administration to promote tolerance of an intolerable lifestyle!


13 posted on 12/21/2015 8:29:30 AM PST by liberalism is suicide (Communism,fascism-no matter how you slice socialism, its still baloney)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Maybe Obama is paving the way for him to have a safe place to retire. Anyone know where Reggie will go when Obama is gone???

I certainly wonder how this kind of expenditure escapes the eye of Congress.

Another reason why Americans are tired of the Republican establishment & are embracing Trump????


14 posted on 12/21/2015 8:31:36 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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I'm sick and tired of seeing and hearing how much money of ours is basically flushed down the toilet.

I can't begin to tell you what I could've done with that kind of cash to help here at home.
15 posted on 12/21/2015 8:32:20 AM PST by ssfromla
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To: SeekAndFind

President Obama has spent at least $700 million

NO NO NO

CONGRESS and Speaker Boehner spent the Money, Obama just handed it out


16 posted on 12/21/2015 8:32:40 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: SeekAndFind

Congress you did not do your job or earn your keep


17 posted on 12/21/2015 8:39:03 AM PST by TYVets
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To: SeekAndFind

He basically laid $700 million debt on our grandchildren and the unborn for this b.s. It will accomplish nothing.


18 posted on 12/21/2015 8:45:10 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie (The Bush family needs to just go away. The Clinton family needs just to go to prison.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I loathe the reporting this is “America’s campaign” when in fact it’s the Democrat Party’s campaign led by Obama.


19 posted on 12/21/2015 8:45:24 AM PST by rockinqsranch ((Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.))
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To: SeekAndFind

Its nice to know that all of Africa’s more pressing problems have been resolved.

There should be no doubt who and what this president is. He surrounds himself with communists, muslims, and homosexuals, in his inner circle and throughout his administration. And we see here he spends $700 million to promote homosexuality in Africa.

He is not that hard to figure out. What you see is what you get, a muslim communist homosexual. Congratulations, America.


20 posted on 12/21/2015 8:48:57 AM PST by marron
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