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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.”

Michelle Obama “Barack’s Home Country in Kenya”

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Interesting read at Constitutionally Speaking.