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Ben Carson: Create transgender bathrooms
CBS News ^

Posted on 11/05/2015 6:13:58 PM PST by springwater13

Ben Carson, the retired neurosurgeon and Republican presidential candidate, suggested in an interview Thursday that the U.S. should have bathrooms specifically for people who are transgender.

Carson was responding to questions about a recent ordinance in Houston that would have established nondiscrimination protections for gay and transgender people. Voters rejected the ordinance after an 18-month battle in which opponents argued that allowing transgender men and women to use their preferred public bathrooms would open the door to sexual predators who wanted to enter women's restrooms.

Carson's response: "How about we have a transgender bathroom?"

"It is not fair for them to make everybody else uncomfortable," he said. "It's one of the things that I don't particularly like about the [LGBT] movement. I think everybody has equal rights, but I'm not sure that anybody should have extra rights--extra rights when it comes to redefining everything for everybody else and imposing your view on everybody else."

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016election; amnesty; bencarson; carson; election2016; elections; homosexualagenda; houston; transgender
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To: springwater13

Or stop segregating men and women into different crapper rooms.


21 posted on 11/05/2015 6:20:48 PM PST by a fool in paradise (The goal of Socialism is Communism. Marx and Lenin were in agreement on this.)
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To: springwater13
Carson's response: "How about we have a transgender bathroom?"

Not a good answer, Dr. Carson. Gender confusion is a treatable mental disorder.

22 posted on 11/05/2015 6:20:51 PM PST by olezip
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To: Jane Long

I think he’s a “can’t we all just get along?” candidate.

Personally, I am not in the mood to get along.


23 posted on 11/05/2015 6:21:00 PM PST by Amntn
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To: springwater13
Maybe he's trying to take attention away from his "pyramid comments" by saying something even more stupid...
24 posted on 11/05/2015 6:21:06 PM PST by WayneS (Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
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To: butlerweave
Male , Female , ????
25 posted on 11/05/2015 6:21:16 PM PST by Grampa Dave ("If you use FR and don't donate. That means that you are a Left Wing or Rino plant, to be ignored!)
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To: springwater13

Was good to know you, Doc.
26 posted on 11/05/2015 6:21:39 PM PST by SunLakesJeff (Life)
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To: springwater13

Ben Carson: Create transgender bathrooms, and fill them with grain.


27 posted on 11/05/2015 6:21:53 PM PST by moehoward
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To: rockinqsranch
[Sign would read what?]

?
28 posted on 11/05/2015 6:22:08 PM PST by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: Jane Long
Family bathroom is the single serve unisex/handicapped/diaper station toilet.

No business should have to install extra accommodations. Or tolerate customers with penises walking into the women's restroom or dressing room.

29 posted on 11/05/2015 6:22:42 PM PST by a fool in paradise (The goal of Socialism is Communism. Marx and Lenin were in agreement on this.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Okay. But who will pay the billions of dollars required to retrofit every publicly accessible building in the country?


30 posted on 11/05/2015 6:23:06 PM PST by WayneS (Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
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To: peyton randolph
How about we build pyramids to store Ben Carson's dumb ideas?

The Carson/SDA food pyramid.


31 posted on 11/05/2015 6:23:25 PM PST by Grampa Dave ("If you use FR and don't donate. That means that you are a Left Wing or Rino plant, to be ignored!)
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To: SaveFerris

LOL


32 posted on 11/05/2015 6:23:30 PM PST by rockinqsranch ((Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.))
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To: springwater13

One toilet for transgender on the city plaza!


33 posted on 11/05/2015 6:23:38 PM PST by stocksthatgoup (When the MSM and Elites want your opinion they will give it to you.)
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To: springwater13

Won’t work. I was sued for this. I won’t tell you the War & Peace version, but the Readers Digest version I ended up with an employee who was an IT. Never did learn whether IT was a he or a she.

All my other employees were revolting. I built IT a separate facility, which hurt ITs feelings. Long story short, I settled with it and $40K later, IT was out the door. I’m sure it planned this all along.

I guess you need male, female, transgender male and transgender female.


34 posted on 11/05/2015 6:24:38 PM PST by umgud (v)
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To: SamAdams76

>> Are we going to force public establishments to build out different bathrooms for every perversity known to mankind?

Yes. It’s like a little shrine to their specialness, bless their hearts.

We should have rows and rows of pervert potties in EVERY public place.

LORD JESUS, COME QUICKLY! Not that long ago we USED to understand that brokenness was brokenness — an illness to be healed, not a “quality” to be encouraged and admired!

WAKE UP AMERICA. Europe too.


35 posted on 11/05/2015 6:26:07 PM PST by Nervous Tick (There is no "allah" but satan, and mohammed was his demon-possessed tool.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Give the mentally ill their own facilities”

Who is supposed to pay for all this giving?


36 posted on 11/05/2015 6:26:29 PM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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37 posted on 11/05/2015 6:26:54 PM PST by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: springwater13

This is gonna put a dent on his support.

Indeed, the 0 people I know for Carson will be further reduced... to 0.


38 posted on 11/05/2015 6:27:08 PM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is libertye)
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To: springwater13

Is Dr. Carson going to pay for these bathrooms?


39 posted on 11/05/2015 6:27:47 PM PST by Reno89519 (American Lives Matter! US Citizen, Veteran, Conservative, Republican. I vote. Trump 2016.)
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To: WayneS

>> Maybe he’s trying to take attention away from his “pyramid comments” by saying something even more stupid...

You know what, it’s kind of working. It’s got my attention, anyhow. The pyramid thing was harmless. This kind of nonsense is anything BUT harmless.


40 posted on 11/05/2015 6:28:01 PM PST by Nervous Tick (There is no "allah" but satan, and mohammed was his demon-possessed tool.)
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