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Obama’s gay support irks Ugandans
The Observer ^
| 6/12/12
| PATIENCE AKUMU
Posted on 06/12/2012 5:28:03 PM PDT by jimbo123
2008 was an epic year for Africans. A black man, with African roots, won the elections in the most powerful nation in the world.
On the day Barack Obama was sworn-in, I was at a beauty shop where a crowd gathered around a 14-inch television to see their brother, icon and pride swear-in as the first US African American president. Thereafter, we walked with a sense of accomplishment. After all, Obama is not just black, his father was Kenyan.
The people of East Africa felt elevated. He is Luo, so the Luo ethnicities in East Africa declared themselves intelligent. Ugandans demonstrated their love for Obama by making chapattis (flat bread) and naming them after him. They wore Obama T-shirts, placed Obama stickers on their cars or wheelbarrows, and named their children and pets Obama.
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So when the Obama administration asked President Yoweri Musevenis government to respect the rights of homosexual people, Ugandans murmured that the US was corrupting the African peoples sense of morality.
Obama was, presumably, a wayward son who would one day find his way back home where homosexuality is considered a perversion. But when, in May, Obama became the first American president to openly support gay marriages, the murmurs turned into fury. I watched the announcement on a plasma screen at Colline hotel in Mukono where I was attending a media workshop.
Adolf Mbaine, a media ethics lecturer at Makerere University, was livid.
They do not support polygamy. But they want us to embrace homosexuals. Obama has betrayed Africans. He is a shame to us, he said.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 57states; africa; firstgaypresident; gaymarriage; homosexualagenda; kenya; kenyanbornmuzzie; mediawingofthednc; mymuslimfaith; obama; partisanmediashills; polygamy; swrdswllwngsdshw; uganda
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First gay president fail.
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posted on
06/12/2012 5:28:10 PM PDT
by
jimbo123
To: jimbo123
When you lose the Ugandan vote, you’re toast!
To: immadashell
Idi Amin would be disappointed, too.
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posted on
06/12/2012 5:33:15 PM PDT
by
jimbo123
To: jimbo123
Obama has queered every deal he has ever had with people.
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posted on
06/12/2012 5:33:49 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: jimbo123
To: jimbo123
The submission to the state clause is to be gay and follow the gay official church month of June. This is completely unconstitutional and tyrannical.
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posted on
06/12/2012 5:36:17 PM PDT
by
JudgemAll
(Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
To: jimbo123
But don’t they realize Obama will fight for the rights of women to wear the veil across the globe? This helps with the homo thing too; one partner can wear it.
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posted on
06/12/2012 5:40:05 PM PDT
by
bukkdems
(Polygamy is the essential ingredient of Islamic evil.)
To: jimbo123
Well, he just lost the Ugandan-American vote.
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posted on
06/12/2012 5:45:12 PM PDT
by
pistolpackinpapa
(Why is it that you never see any Obama bumper stickers on cars going to work in the mornings?)
To: jimbo123
I think gay marriage is a sin against God...However, I could care less what the Ugandan people think of us or our President (for about 5 months left).
To: jimbo123
"He is Luo, so the Luo ethnicities in East Africa declared themselves intelligent."
Uurrmm???
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posted on
06/12/2012 5:54:08 PM PDT
by
davius
(You can roll manure in powdered sugar but that don't make it a jelly doughnut.)
To: jimbo123
Somebody please remind the Ugandans that Hussein does NOT speak for most Americans on this issue.
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posted on
06/12/2012 5:56:01 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: jimbo123
“He is Luo, so the Luo ethnicities in East Africa declared themselves intelligent.”
Anyone who would declare themselves intelligent based on someone else, especially this moron, can’t be very intelligent.
To: jimbo123
Uganda has a nasty history with this stuff, including a sodomite monarch King Mwanga II.
The great saint, Charles Lwanga, was martyred by this wicked malefactor:
Twelve Catholic boys and men and nine Anglicans were then burnt alive (another Catholic, Mbaga Tuzinde, was speared to death for refusing to renounce Christianity, and his body was thrown into the furnace to be burned along with those of Lwanga and the others[3]).
One of the reported reasons the ire of the king was particularly inflamed against the Christians was because they refused to accede to demands to participate in sexual acts with him.[4] Charles Lwanga, in particular, had protected the pages from King Mwanga's sexual advances.
From Wikipedia.
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posted on
06/12/2012 7:29:17 PM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
("You forget, it isn't who you claim, but instead, who claims you. We don't claim you!")
To: Boogieman
He is Luo, Yep... A Luosy, Luo down Luoser gonna Luose in November.
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posted on
06/12/2012 7:31:06 PM PDT
by
tflabo
(Truth or tyranny)
To: jimbo123
“A black man, with African roots, won the elections in the most powerful nation in the world. “
No, he is at least half white and apparently a lot middle eastern.
I look forward to having the first REALLY black president someday - Walter Williams, Thomas Sowell, or another similar true American patriot - someone who can indeed be a President we can all be proud of.
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posted on
06/12/2012 7:48:56 PM PDT
by
Persevero
(Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
To: jimbo123
How many electoral votes does Uganda get?
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posted on
06/12/2012 7:54:04 PM PDT
by
HIDEK6
To: Persevero
When posters mention Sowell and politics I refer them to his biographical Personal Odyssey where he spells out how little he cares for politics. He hasn't registered with any party or voted since 1972.
He turned down cabinet post talk in the 80s.
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posted on
06/12/2012 8:02:45 PM PDT
by
KC Burke
(Plain Conservative opinions and common sense correction for thirteen years.)
To: Persevero
When posters mention Sowell and politics I refer them to his biographical Personal Odyssey where he spells out how little he cares for politics. He hasn't registered with any party or voted since 1972.
He turned down cabinet post talk in the 80s.
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posted on
06/12/2012 8:03:02 PM PDT
by
KC Burke
(Plain Conservative opinions and common sense correction for thirteen years.)
To: Persevero
When posters mention Sowell and politics I refer them to his biographical Personal Odyssey where he spells out how little he cares for politics. He hasn't registered with any party or voted since 1972.
He turned down cabinet post talk in the 80s.
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posted on
06/12/2012 8:03:10 PM PDT
by
KC Burke
(Plain Conservative opinions and common sense correction for thirteen years.)
To: Persevero
When posters mention Sowell and politics I refer them to his biographical Personal Odyssey where he spells out how little he cares for politics. He hasn't registered with any party or voted since 1972.
He turned down cabinet post talk in the 80s.
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posted on
06/12/2012 8:03:10 PM PDT
by
KC Burke
(Plain Conservative opinions and common sense correction for thirteen years.)
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