President Obama: Out of (Touch with) Africa
 President Barack Obama delivers remarks at the Safaricom Indoor Arena in Nairobi, Kenya, 7/26/2015. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) |
As reported by CBN, “Seven hundred Kenyan evangelical pastors have written an open letter asking the president not to come to their country and talk about the gay agenda. Mark Kariuki is the key architect of that letter. He leads an alliance representing 38,000 churches and 10 million Kenyan Christians. ‘We do not want him to come and talk on homosexuality in Kenya or push us to accepting that which is against our faith and culture,’ Kariuki said.”
As he has done with many Christian leaders in his own country, Mr. Obama ignored the pleas of Christian leaders in Kenya, as well.
The Kenyans are not alone. Other African leaders share the Kenyans’ rightful indignation at the Administration’s cultural imperialism. The New York Times reports that “On his last trip to Africa in 2013, Mr. Obama was seen as wagging his finger at Africans on gay rights during a news conference with Senegal’s president, Macky Sall. Mr. Sall swung back, saying that laws governing gay rights were Senegal’s alone to decide. The United States should respect that choice, he added, just as Senegal, which had long abolished the death penalty, respected America’s position on that matter. The comments quickly established the script for other African leaders.”
Mr. Obama is the first U.S. President of African descent. His election thrilled millions of Americans and especially those among us whose ancestors were brought here in chains. But he has carried an unwelcome message to his ancestral homeland.
His joke about searching for his birth certificate in Kenya has a more somber side, too. He sent Vice President Joe Biden to in 2010 to pressure that pro-life country to adopt a new constitution that would open the door to abortion.
The ever-voluble Biden brazenly told Kenyans they needed to back abortion in order to allow “money to flow” from foreign aid treasuries. Talk about bribery.
Such shameless methods, such extortionate demands, have always accompanied Planned Parenthood efforts in the Third World. It is deplorable for Vice President Biden to employ them against needy Africans. It is even more tragic for President Obama, this son of an African father, to have been the most ungrateful of favorite sons.
The President joke about finding his birth certificate in Kenya rings hollow. Given his insistent pushing of abortion-on-demand, numberless thousands of Kenyans will never live to experience their own births, let alone have birth certificates.
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Ken Blackwell, Senior Fellow at the Family Research Council, is the former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Commission on Human Rights. . He is a contributing author to the ARRA News Service. Rob Schwarzwalder, Family Research Council Vice-President, formerly worked at the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
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