{"id":2061,"date":"2015-08-02T15:17:22","date_gmt":"2015-08-02T20:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=2061"},"modified":"2015-08-02T15:17:22","modified_gmt":"2015-08-02T20:17:22","slug":"watch-obama-admonishes-kenyan-president-to-stop-discriminating-against-gay-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/2061","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Obama admonishes Kenyan president to stop discriminating against gay people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>During his recent trip to Africa, President Obama admonished?Kenya?s Uhuru Kenyatta to improve Kenya&#8217;s stance on gay rights. Via PinkNews;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Speaking at a joint press conference, President Obama told Kenyatta: ?I?ve been consistent all across Africa on this ? I believe in the principle of treating people equally under the law, and that they are deserving of equal protection under the law, and the state should not discriminate against people based on their sexual orientation<\/p>\n<p>?I say that recognising that there may be people with different religious or cultural beliefs ? but the question is how does the state operate, relative to people?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Watch Obama&#8217;s comments below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Presidents Uhuru and Barack Obama respond to the issue of gay rights in Kenya\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MsWlHVF8Q9Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman During his recent trip to Africa, President Obama admonished?Kenya?s Uhuru Kenyatta to improve Kenya&#8217;s stance on gay rights. Via PinkNews; Speaking at a joint press conference, President Obama told Kenyatta: ?I?ve been consistent all across Africa on this ? I believe in the principle of treating people equally under the law, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[255,96,92],"class_list":["post-2061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news","tag-kenya","tag-lgbt-rights","tag-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}