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Obama Chides Kenya President on Gay Rights

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President Obama pushed African nations today to treat gays and lesbians equally under the law, a position that remains unpopular through much of the continent. Obama's Kenyan counterpart responded by calling the matter a "non-issue" for his country. Obama tackled the sensitive matter on his first full day in Kenya, the country of his father's birth. He drew on his own background as an African-American, noting the slavery and segregation of the US past and saying he is "painfully aware of the history when people are treated differently under the law."

"That's the path whereby freedoms begin to erode and bad things happen," Obama said during a joint news conference with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta. "When a government gets in the habit of treating people differently, those habits can spread." Kenyatta was unmoved, saying gay rights "is not really an issue on the foremost mind of Kenyans. And that is a fact." A number of Kenyan politicians and religious leaders had warned Obama in outspoken terms that any overtures on gay rights would not be welcomed in Kenya, where gay sex is punishable by up to 14 years in prison. The Kenyan gay community also complains of sometimes violent harassment.

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I think our dear giving anyone a speech about eroding rights is hilarious and sad at the same time.
 
I'm of two minds here....the conservative in me thought it was a bit disrespectful to chide another country on their soul (a nod to Liberty's thought above... :fright: ...). On the other hand, the gay man in me is thinking as he reads Obama's subtle dig at Kenya over the rights issue, "Halle-fricken-juah!" :pride: *adds deadpan* Of course, the Wanker-in-Chief probably wouldn't've had to make those remarks if America's evangelical Christian Taliban weren't trying to spread their anti-gay bullshit across Africa... :mad:
 

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