President Obama Condemns Uganda Anti-Gay Bill As "Odious"

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Thu. February 4, 2010

U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday denounced as "odious" a proposed anti-gay law in Uganda that has drawn international condemnation.

"We may disagree about gay marriage, but surely we can agree that it is unconscionable to target gays and lesbians for who they are -- whether it's here in the United States or ... more extremely in odious laws that are being proposed most recently in Uganda," Obama told the National Prayer Breakfast.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, speaking before Obama at the annual bipartisan gathering of religious and political leaders, also criticized the draft law being considered by Uganda's parliament.

Clinton said she recently called Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and expressed the "strongest concerns" about the proposed legislation. The call was made on December 20, a State Department official said.

read: http://www.postchronicle.com/news/breakingnews/article_212282763.shtml


Remarks by the President at the National Prayer Breakfast
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-national-prayer-breakfast

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1. what exactly does he disagree with them on about gay marriage?

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3. He was addressing his audience as the "we"

In the audience were people who are pro-marriage and others who are anti-marriage and some with no solid opinion on it one way or the other, and he was stating that even with those disagreements, everyone in the room could (probably) see the inhumanity and disgustingness of Uganda's proposed law.

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2. Republicans: "That's a high-falutin' word."

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