Obama and Kenyan President clash over gay rights in Africa - Daily Mail

if you look at the history of countries around the world when you start treating people differently not because of any harm they're doing anybody but because they're different that's the path whereby Freedoms begin to erode and bad things happen and when a government gets in the habit of people treating people differently those habits can spread if somebody is a law-abiding citizen who is going about their business and working in a job and obeying the traffic signs and doing all the other things that good citizens are supposed to do and not harming anybody the idea that they are going to be treated differently or abused because of who they love is wrong full-stop just like President Obama I think we also need to be able to speak frankly about some of these things and the fact of the matter is that Kenya in the United States we share so many values our common love for democracy entrepreneurship value for families these are things that we share but there are some things that we must admit we don't share our culture our societies don't accept it's very difficult for us to be able to impose on people that which they themselves do not accept this is why I repeatedly say that for Kenyans today the issue of gay rights is really a non-issue we want to focus on other areas that are day-to-day living for our people the health issues that we have discussed with President Obama these are critical issues of ensuring inclusivity and of women a huge section of society that is normally left out of the mainstream of economic development what we can do in terms of infrastructure what we can do in terms of Education in terms of our roads in terms of giving our people power encouraging entrepreneurship these are the key focuses maybe once like you have overcome some of these challenges we can begin to look at new ones but as of now the fact remains that this issue is not really an issue that is on the foremost mind of Kenyans and that is the fact

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Published: Fri Mar 09 2018