Kenya’s Deputy President-William Ruto Says ‘No Room for Gays in Kenya’

Despite the increasing global acceptance of people’s sexual orientation to the extent that many countries have granted gays the right to even marry—most African countries continue to clamp down gays and Kenya is one of such countries…

According to Kenya’s deputy president-William Ruto, there is “no room” for homosexuality in Kenyan society, a widely-shared view in African countries that puts their leaders at odds with Western aid donors who back gay rights.

William Ruto speaking at a church service on Sunday, the very day U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived for talks said; “The Republic of Kenya is a republic that worships God. We have no room for gays and those others.”

As you can see, Ruto’s dislike for gays springs from the fact that he considers gays as abomination to God and therefore there is not way a God worshiping society like Kenya can tolerate them alongside worshiping God.

This begs the question; how are the western countries who also worship this same God doing it?

When it comes to homosexuals, many Africans ride on the back of religion and culture to say they do not want to have anything to do with them and this is exactly what Kenya’s vice president is saying.

Homosexuality is illegal in Kenya and has been so since colonial British rule, which ended in 1963.

Kenyan activists condemned Ruto’s remarks on social media, saying;

“Kenya’s deputy president joins an important tradition by Africans in power to spread hate in church on a Sunday,” Binyavanga Wainana, a prominent Kenyan writer who is openly gay, said on his Twitter account.