U.S. Ambassador to Kenya Meg Whitman maintains the country's support to support and protect the LGBTQ community.
In a status update on social media Tuesday, the ambassador reiterated how the United States is actively championing the acknowledgement of the LGBTQI+ community while indicating that having discrimination towards the movement equates to infringing on basic human rights.
"Over the past week my team and I met with the LGBTQI+ community & stakeholders to support human rights of LGBTQI+ persons," said Whitman.
"The U.S. proudly advances efforts to protect LGBTQI+ persons from discrimination & violence and will continue to stand up for human rights & equality." the post added
Did you read this?
Her post comes weeks after the united states of America distanced itself from accusations that the kshs 16 billion donations to the drought relief programme were connected to the controversial supreme court ruling on LGBTQ.
"Countries have their differences, we have a very strong working relationship of many years and I think the Kenyan government probably knows the U.S. perceptive, in fact I know they do, but we also respect Kenya's rights on this particular issue," she said then.
"I want to underscore that there is absolutely no linkage at all between the food and drought relief and Kenyan's stance on LGBTQ."
Meg Whitman, however, clarified that the USA views LGBTQ rights as human rights but that they respect kenyas views on the matter, adding that different cultures hold different opinions on the matter and that there is no coercion.
The supreme courts ruling on the LGBTQ matter caused a stir among politicians as well as religious leaders who faulted the court's ruling, saying that it would promote homosexual behaviour in the country, which would corrupt the morals of kenyans. Religious leaders said that the ruling was against the holy book's teachings. Lawmakers promised to introduce harsher sentences for those guilty of engaging in homosexuality.
