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Kenyan Leaders Slam President Obama’s Gay Rights Comments – Washington Whispers (usnews.com)

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Kenyan Leaders Slam President Obama’s Gay Rights Comments – Washington Whispers (usnews.com).

WASHINGTON WHISPERS

Kenyan Leaders Slam President Obama’s Gay Rights Comments

July 1, 2013

(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)U.S. President Barack Obama takes questions from the audience and from people in Nigeria, Uganda and Kenya during a ‘town hall’ meeting at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa.

President Barack Obama’s comments while in Senegal last week in support of gay rights aren’t sitting well with politicians in Kenya, where same-sex acts are treated as crimes.

Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta and deputy president William Ruto slammed Obama’s remarks at separate religious events. Addressing a congregation Sunday, Ruto said Kenya will uphold its strong religious beliefs on homosexuality.

[READ: Obama’s Africa Trip Draws Ire]

“This country, the nation of Kenya, is a God-fearing nation,” Ruto said.

Homosexuality is illegal in Kenya, where 90 percent of people believe homosexuality is wrong, according to the Pew Research Center.

“Those who believe in other things, that is their business,” Ruto said, referring to Obama’s comments in support of gay marriage. “We believe in God.”

Episcopal Nuns Come Home to Roman Catholicism

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H/T to Susan G. in Nebraska who said this article from the Baltimore Sun would make me happy:

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In a move that religious scholars say is unprecedented, 10 of the 12 nuns at an Episcopal convent in Catonsville left their church Thursday to become Roman Catholics, the latest defectors from a denomination divided over the ordination of gay men and women.

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The sisters said they converted for the orthodoxy, unity and leadership they said they could no longer find in their own faith.

“We know our beliefs and where we are,” said Mother Christina Christie, superior of the order that came to Baltimore in 1872. “We were drifting farther apart from the more liberal road the Episcopal Church is traveling. We are now more at home in the Roman Catholic Church.”

Also joining the church was the Rev. Warren Tanghe, the sisters’ chaplain. In a statement, Episcopal Bishop Eugene Taylor Sutton wished them God’s blessings.

“Despite the sadness we feel in having to say farewell, our mutual joy is that we remain as one spiritual family of faith, one body in Christ,” he said.