Kenyan president calls gay rights a 'non-issue'

Kenyatta and Obama
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Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said in a Saturday news conference with U.S. President Barack Obama that gay rights is a "non-issue" for his country.

For his part, Obama pushed Kenya to evolve on gay rights, drawing on his own background as an African American in the U.S., The Associated Press reports.

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Julie Kliegman

Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.