Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in a keynote speech this morning at the National Prayer Breakfast, said the Obama administration is “standing up for gays and lesbians who deserve to be treated as full human beings,” adding, “these are priorities of the United States.”

She told attendees she had called the president of Uganda to express “our strongest concerns about a law being considered in the parliament of Uganda,” referring to what has come to be called the “Kill the Gays” bill because it would implement a death sentence for certain crimes involving homosexual activity.

The prayer breakfast, an annual tradition that brings together world leaders in Washington, is sponsored by The Fellowship Foundation, which some accuse of having ties to anti-gay leaders in Uganda who have proposed the legislation Clinton condemned.