BURBANK, CA, August 7, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com)
– President Obama canceled a summit with Russian President Vladimir
Putin one day after criticizing that nation's law against homosexual
propaganda on NBC's The Tonight Show as immoral.
Obama said the law, which among other things forbids anyone from promoting same-sex marriage, “violates basic morality.”
Host Jay Leno led into the subject matter during Obama's sixth visit to
the comedy program, and his fourth as president of the United States.
“I’m surprised this is not a huge story: suddenly, homosexuality is
against the law,” Leno said, incorrectly. "This seems like Germany.
'Let's round up the Jews, let's round up the gays, let's round up the
blacks.' I mean, it starts with that. You round up people you don't
like. Why is not more of the world outraged at this?"
Russia's anti-gay propaganda law, which Vladimir Putin signed
this summer, falls short of herding homosexuals into concentration
camps. The law fines Russians who advocate gay “marriage” the equivalent
of $156 (U.S.). The wildly popular
measure does not criminalize homosexual relations but bars any public
communications “intended to form in a minor a nontraditional sexual
foundation.”
Obama, who did not correct Leno, replied, “I’ve been very clear that
when it comes to universal rights, when it comes to people’s basic
freedoms, that whether you are discriminating on the basis of race,
religion, gender or sexual orientation, you are violating the basic
morality that I think should transcend every country.”
He added that he had “no patience for countries” that do not affirm “gays or lesbians or transgender persons.”
The president has signaled that he considers marriage redefinition an
inalienable right since at least 2010, when his administration included a
reference to “equal rights to marriage” as a part of the first-ever report on U.S. human rights to the UN Human Rights Council.
Obama widened the discussion to include Africa, where he said his
hectoring of foreign leaders “makes for some uncomfortable press
conferences sometimes.”
President Obama's zeal to secure state approval of homosexuality in Africa, which commenced years ago, boiled over this summer as Obama provoked a confrontation with his African host during a joint press conference with President Macky Sall. The shock waves reached continent-wide, as both the deputy president of Kenya and a Kenyan Cardinal criticized decadent, progressive nations that they said had forsaken God and the natural order.
The president told Leno promoting the LGBT political agenda globally is
“very important,” because such prerogatives “should apply everywhere.”
Russia has indicated it will not suspend its law during the upcoming
Olympics, leading to calls from homosexual organizations to boycott the
event. Obama responded that Russian officials know that "most of the
countries that participate in the Olympics...wouldn't tolerate gays and
lesbians being treated differently."
His ire over Russia's family-affirming law seemed to outweigh concerns
over national security, as he said only that he was "disappointed"
Vladimir Putin had granted temporary asylum to NSA whistleblower Edward
Snowden.
On Wednesday, Press Secretary Jay Carney said
the president had canceled the September meeting with Putin, because
“there is not enough recent progress in our bilateral agenda.” He added
that Russia's “disappointing decision” on Snowden “was also a factor
that we considered.”
Tuesday night's pre-recorded interview ranged on a variety of topics,
including NSA surveillance, immigration, and the George Zimmerman
verdict.
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"We don't have a domestic spying program," Obama said
at one point. The NSA, he said, merely has "some mechanisms that can
track a phone number or an email address” and produces information that
“is useful."
John McCain received stout praise from his former rival, who called the senator a "person of integrity" for assisting his push for amnesty for illegal immigrants.
Obama also commented on the shooting of Trayvon Martin, again, noting that Martin was “a perfect kid.”
“We all know young African-American men disproportionately have
involvement in criminal activities and violence for a lot of reasons,
and that’s no excuse,” he said.
“What I’m trying to do is just make sure that we have a conversation
and that were all asking ourselves, ‘Are there some things we can do to
foster better understanding and to make sure we don’t have laws in place
that encourage the kind of violent encounter that we saw there that
resulted in tragedy?'”
Barack Obama has yet to address the Kermit Gosnell case.
