Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta: Gay rights are “of no importance.”
Kenyan courts are currently weighing whether to overturn the nation’s repressive colonial-era anti-sodomy law, but in an interview with Christiane Amanpour of CNN: , Kenyatta claimed that gay rights are “of no importance in Kenya.”
“I won’t engage in a subject that is of no importance to the people of Kenya. This is not an issue of human rights, this is an issue of our own base as a culture, as a people regardless of which community you come from.”
RUNNERS UP
Kenyatta edged out the following nominees for Homophobe of the Week. Each of them deserved similar dishonor:
In Jamaica, provocateur Orville Taylor, who claims that former Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller must not have been thinking, so must have made a made knee-jerk response when she said gays could serve in her cabinet. http://ht.ly/OqgV30jFRWV
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