“We may disagree about gay marriage,” the president said, “but surely we can agree that it is unconscionable to target gays and lesbians for who they are, whether it is right here in the United States or as Hillary mentioned more extremely in odious laws that are being proposed most recently in Uganda.”
In her speech, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she and the administration as a whole are concerned with the plight of LGBT people throughout the world, NPR reports:
We are standing up for gays and lesbians who deserve to be treated as full human beings [Clinton said]. And we are also making it clear to countries and leaders that these are priorities of the United States. Every time I travel, I raise the plight of girls and women, and make it clear that we expect to see changes. And I recently called President Museveni, whom I have known through the prayer breakfast, and expressed the strongest concerns about a law being considered in the parliament of Uganda.