U.S. President Barack Obama recently visited his ancestral home in Kenya. During a joint press conference with the Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta he challenged the Kenyan president on the issue of gay rights.
“When you start treating people differently,” Mr. Obama said, “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.”
What freedoms begin to erode by not legally approving of gay rights? These would largely be newly defined freedoms and rights that were never part of society, such a gay marriage. Gay marriage erodes other important freedoms such as religious liberty and freedom of conscience.
Mr. Obama said that countries that discriminate by policy are wrong and end up on the wrong side of history. “And when government gets in the habit of treating people differently,” he said, “those habits start to spread. I am unequivocal on this. The idea they are going to be treated differently or abused because of who they love is wrong, full stop.”
Mr. Kenyatta insisted to a frowning Obama that the issue of gay rights in Kenya is a “non-issue” during the tense exchange. “It’s very difficult to impose that on people that which they themselves do not accept. 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 people.”
Mr. Obama raised concerns about endemic, visible corruption holding back the economic growth of Kenya, saying that “people aren’t stupid.” He also said the United States is concerned about International Criminal Court charges facing Mr. Kenyatta over post-election violence in 2007. The ICC has dropped the charges.
In spite of his negative remarks about Kenya, Mr. Obama vowed further American help to dealing with al-Shabaab, an Islamic militant group that has conducted successful attacks in Kenya.
Sodom and Gomorrah were sister cities that promoted gay rights. No doubt they too tried to export these concepts to other cities of the plain, such as Zoar. It is one thing to nationalize sin in the name of equality before the law. It is quite another to try to get other nations to nationalize that same sin.
“As it was in the days of Lot…” Luke 17:28
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