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President Obama on Saturday made an personal plea for gay rights during his visit to Kenya, warning that “bad things happen” when countries discriminate against certain groups of people . “As an African-American in the United States , I am painfully aware of the history of what happens when people are treated differently under the law,” Obama added during a joint press conference with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta . “I’m unequivocal on this.” But Obama’s call for universal gay rights was quickly dismissed by Kenyatta, who described the issue as something “our culture, our society does 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 our people,” he said, citing heath concerns and women’s rights. “This issue is not really an issue that is on the foremost of mind for Kenyans, and that is a fact," he said to some applause. Kenyatta’s comments represent the views of the vast major...

NAIROBI , Kenya,  – Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta signed Marriage Bill 2014 on Tuesday, legalizing polygamous “marriages” between one man and multiple women. “Parties to a marriage have equal rights and obligations at the time of marriage, during the marriage and at the dissolution of the marriage. All marriages registered under the Act have the same legal status," he said in a  statement . Although strongly criticized by the nation's Christian leaders and the Kenya's Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA), the new law was hailed by some as a return to traditional African practices, shorn of Western Christian influence. "In Africa, polygamy is a way of life, and when you're making a law you must go back to what the society wants,” said Nderitu Njoka, the chairman of Men's Empowerment and Development in Kenya. Kenyan lawyer Judy Thongori blamed the existing taboo on British colonial laws, which do not account for the practice of many Kenyan et...

NAIROBI, Kenya, – Among the chorus of African leaders responding to Obama last week after the president urged Africans to accept homosexuality was a Kenyan Cardinal, who strongly urged Obama to “forget” his promotion of homosexual behavior. “Those people who have already ruined their society...let them not become our teachers to tell us where to go,” said Cardinal John Njue , Archbishop of Nairobi and president of the Kenyan Episcopal Conference . U.S. President Barack Obama and Senegalese President Macky Sall face off “I think we need to act according to our own traditions and our faiths,” he added. On June 28, Obama began a three-country tour of Africa by celebrating two U.S. Supreme Court decisions liberalizing homosexual “marriage,” and then offered a thinly-veiled criticism of his host nations. “My basic view is that regardless of race, regardless of religion, regardless of gender, regardless of sexual orientation, when it comes to the law, people should be ...