FULL VIDEO CLIP: Kenyan Leader Won’t Be Lectured By President Barack Obama, As Uhuru Shuts Up Barack

President Barack Obama was fully lectured on gay rights on the road in Africa this past week, deciding to take the Kenyan president to task over what he sees as the country’s lack of acceptance on the issue of gay rights. Unfortunately for Obama, he didn’t quite get the uncritical praise he tends to get from people at home. In fact, the president of his father’s home country roundly criticized our commander-in-chief for his remarks.

 

“When you start treating people differently not because of any harm they are doing to anybody, but because they are different, that’s the path whereby freedoms begin to erode. And bad things happen,” Obama said during a Saturday news conference with the Kenyan president at the White House.

 

The president had been warned by Kenyan government and religious officials not to push the gay rights agenda, but he did anyway. And if he didn’t think he would get any blowback from his barely-disguised remarks, Obama was sorely mistaken.

In response President Uhuru said, “The fact of the matter is Kenya and the U.S. share so many values: common love for democracy, entrepreneurship, value for families — these are some things that we share,” Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said, standing right next to Obama.

 

“But there are some things that we must admit we don’t share. Our culture, our societies don’t accept.” “It is very difficult for us to be able to impose on people that which they themselves do not accept,” Kenyatta added. “This is why I repeatedly say for Kenyans today the (gay rights issue) is generally a non-issue. We want to focus on other areas.”