What an idiotic comment!
Dr. Carson merely "ventured" into exercising his free speech rights in a public forum, as America's Founders intended every citizen to be able to do without being silenced.
Her challenges to this man's opinions, as well as his constitutionally-protected right to express them, reveal her shallow understanding of history and, in particular, of the history of her own nation.
Carson is informed by his study of the history of nations and, in particular, the enduring principles of liberty underlying America's Declaration of Independence and Constitution.
By what authority does Mitchell assume such an outrageous willingness to challenge him?
The pseudointellectuals who occupy the White House, the media, and much of Congress fancy themselves "intellectuals."
By their words and actions, however, they display a provinciality reminiscent of that Dr. Kirk recalls as having been described by T. S. Eliot as being one of time and place, having no intellectual grounding in ideas older than their own little experience in dabbling and discussing Mao, Marx, and other theoreticians.
America's written Constitution deserves protectors whose minds are out of their teens in terms of their understanding of civilization's long struggle for liberty and of the enduring principles which have been found to undergird and support liberty when, indeed, it has been achieved in a society.
Ben has great potential, but he must realize that the press will never, NEVER, allow him to occupy the White House ... because he is a conservative Christian. So, he should give up trying to appease them right now, from the gitgo, and be true to his beliefs. His reply to Ms. Mitchell should have been simply, well yes Andria, I am a Christian, and the Bible explains to us what has been generally accepted for thousands of years by civilized man: that homosexuality is perversion of the same sort as bestiality. And yes, Andria, you should remember that almost all pedophiles are homosexuals. So no, Andria, I do not apologize. Ben has taken a turn to appeasement politics which will not work with the communists running the media.