On Friday, Bryan Fischer blasted President Obama ahead of his trip to Kenya over reports that Obama would use the trip as an opportunity to criticize the country’s laws that make homosexuality a crime punishable by up to 14 years imprisonment. Over the weekend, Obama did exactly that, but his criticism was promptly dismissed by Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, and now Fischer is outraged that Obama was so “rude” and is heaping praise upon African nations that maintain harsh anti-gay laws.
African leaders, Fischer said on his radio program today, know that “there is something abnormal, there is something immoral, there is something unhealthy, there is something unnatural about homosexual behavior” because the continent has been ravaged by AIDS.
“These political leaders know what homosexual behavior does,” he said, and they “want something better for the African people than what homosexual conduct give them.”
These leaders do not need someone like Obama lecturing them, Fischer continued, because they “are more enlightened” than the United State on this issue.
“We are smart enough, we are bright enough, we are intelligent enough, we are sane enough to make this kind of behavior contrary to public policy,” Fischer said, as he approvingly laid out what he believes the correct African position on this issue to be. “We’re not going to embrace it, we’re not going to promote it, we’re not even going to make it legal.”
Nevertheless, President Obama went to Kenya and criticized laws criminalizing homosexuality which, Fischer said, “in my mind just makes him rude.”
