By Tristan McConnell

People in Nairobi on Sunday gave a muted and measured response to US President Barack Obama's firm support for gay rights during his visit to Kenya.


Standing alongside President Uhuru Kenyatta outside State House on Saturday, Obama answered a journalist's question on gay rights by drawing equivalence between homophobia and racism.

"As an African-American in the United States I am painfully aware of what happens when people are treated differently under the law," Obama said.

The comparison is particularly stinging in Kenya, which, like other African countries, has a proud history of resisting and overcoming colonial rule by white foreigners.

"When you start treating people differently –- because they're different –- that's the path whereby freedoms begin to erode, and bad things happen," said Obama, adding that treating people differently "because of who they love is wrong, full stop."

"I've been consistent all across Africa on this," said Obama, who previously spoke in support of gay rights during a visit to Senegal in 2013.

Then, President Macky Sall replied that his country was "not ready" to decriminalise homosexuality, which is illegal in 35 African countries and carries the death penalty in four, according to campaign group Amnesty International.

On Saturday, Kenyatta repeated his argument that, for Kenyans, gay rights is "really a non-issue". He said it was an area of disagreement for Kenya and the US.

"There are some things we don't share, that our society, our culture, don't accept," Kenyatta said.

snip

for more:
http://news.yahoo.com/no-problem-gays-ke...-094627327.html

[It is becoming obvious that this President has a warped idea of what America stands for. Shoving homosexual equality down Kenyan's throats is hardly promoting the American heritage of freedom and liberty against oppressors and totalitarian rule TM ].

"As an African-American in the United States I am painfully aware of what happens when people are treated differently under the law," Obama said.

And he violates the cardinal rule of speaking down about your Country while on foreign soil. The same people he disses elected him disproportionately because he was black. It's hard to deny that being black gave him an attraction that he should be grateful for. Instead he pokes us in the eye from Kenya.

And this week HALF of the Cuban men's field hockey team defected while at the Pan Am competition in Canada. Why doesn't this president start appreciating and talking up those values that America is built on that others still sacrifice so much to live here.

for more on that see:
http://news.yahoo.com/half-cuba-mens-hoc...-080115006.html