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Carson Willing to Step Down as Commencement Speaker After Protests [Gestapo Tactics!]
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| March 29, 2013
| Greg Richter
Posted on 03/29/2013 3:55:21 PM PDT by Steelfish
Carson Willing to Step Down as Commencement Speaker After Protests
29 Mar 2013 Greg Richter.
A pediatric neurosurgeon who has become the darling of conservatives since speaking against nationalized healthcare is now under fire for comments he made about same-sex marriage.
Dr. Benjamin Carson told Andrea Mitchell Reports on Friday that he would be willing to step down as commencement speaker at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine after faculty and students signed petitions asking that he not speak.
I would say this is their day, and the last thing I would want to do is rain on their parade, Carson told Mitchell.
Carson said in interview that he has not notified the university he wont be speaking. I am waiting for appropriate channels, he said. I dont think television is the appropriate channel.
The petitions began after Carson told Fox News Channels Sean Hannity, My thoughts are that marriage is between a man and a woman. Its a well-established, fundamental pillar of society and no group, be they gays, be they NAMBLA, be they people who believe in bestiality it doesnt matter what they are they dont get to change the definition.
One of the petitions, quoted by The Hill newspaper, reads: We retain the highest respect for Dr. Carsons achievements and value his right to publicly voice political views. Nevertheless, we feel that these expressed values are incongruous with the values of Johns Hopkins and deeply offensive to a large proportion of our student body.
MSNBCs web report on the story says Carson equating same-sex marriage with pedophilia and bestiality has caused him to lose some of his star power within the GOP. Carson has said he would consider a run for president if the public was still interested in him a year-and-a-half from now.
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To: Don Corleone
Yeah, but unlike the average German in the 1930s, we will NOT give up our guns. The 2nd Amendment has a purpose.
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posted on
03/29/2013 4:30:17 PM PDT
by
ought-six
( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
To: Steelfish
Please don’t give up, Dr. Carson. Right is right, no matter who says it, or where it is said.
To heck with the PC nut jobs.
To: Belteshazzar
I agree with you. It sure makes you wonder what marvelous medical advances (if any) are going to come out of this graduating class, eh?
43
posted on
03/29/2013 4:30:18 PM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
("I am the master of my fate ... I am the captain of my soul.")
To: llevrok
After 4 years of indoctrination, these little jam-tarts could use at least 1/2 hour for an opposing view point. That's the answer he should have given, rather than folding and apologizing.
44
posted on
03/29/2013 4:31:26 PM PDT
by
NurdlyPeon
(New tag line in progress.)
To: txrefugee
If you are ill you better stay far away from that crowd. I would not trust them to treat my dog’s ass. messing around with them will cause you to go from sick to dead very quickly.
45
posted on
03/29/2013 4:31:37 PM PDT
by
sport
To: Alberta's Child
It sure makes you wonder what marvelous medical advances (if any) are going to come out of this graduating class, eh?Future Johns Hopkins doctor.
46
posted on
03/29/2013 4:32:07 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: ought-six
I doubt the young useful idiots have any idea of the overall Marxist goals. They’re just going along with the flow, completely ignorant of the fact that they’ve been totally brainwashed by government union goons, aka public school teachers.
47
posted on
03/29/2013 4:33:13 PM PDT
by
Jim Robinson
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
To: buffyt
I really hope you realize that the series, “The Bible”, thoroughly sidestepped the facts in their portrayal of Lot being rescued from Sodom and Gomorrah. In the interest of “getting it all in”, they have seriously under served strong cultural and religious principles God wanted the children of Israel to not only learn and know but to internalize and realize everything that happened was a type, an example, a foreshadowing and ever mounting promise that was fully and totally realized in the birth, life, death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. The reason people watch the series in droves, IMO, is that they know there will be no vulgarity or perversion celebrated, no profanity and limited discreet skin exposure, and their beliefs not ridiculed or made as the focus of condemnation by people who themselves are unworthy to even speak the name of God and only do so in vain and cursing.
God is not mocked. He will judge, not with water as he did the first time, but with a refining fire that will ultimately wipe evil from the face of the earth.
48
posted on
03/29/2013 4:33:49 PM PDT
by
cashless
(Obama told us he would side with Muslims if the political winds shifted in an ugly direction. Ready?)
To: Alberta's Child
It sure makes you wonder what marvelous medical advances (if any) are going to come out of this graduating class
Exactly my point about them dragging us to the dark ages.
I vehemently disagree with Stephen Hawking on pretty much all social issues but I thank the God that he doesn't believe in for Hawking's existence. The man is truly brilliant and has advanced theoretical astrophysics and actual sciences in incalculable ways.
I refuse to be like the left.
49
posted on
03/29/2013 4:38:25 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: cripplecreek
Why would JH need a World class neurosurgeon, when they can have an expert fudge packer talk about fudge packing and how much they love each other?
50
posted on
03/29/2013 4:45:04 PM PDT
by
Williams
(No Obama)
To: Jim Robinson
51
posted on
03/29/2013 4:46:55 PM PDT
by
Williams
(No Obama)
To: Steelfish
MSNBCs web report on the story says Carson equating same-sex marriage with pedophilia and bestiality has caused him to lose some of his star power within the GOP.
But he didn't equate them. He said no group, whoever they are, gets to change the definition of marriage. He's right. He could have said no liberal, no pope, no president gets to ...... That's not equating liberals with the pope and/or the president.
52
posted on
03/29/2013 4:48:39 PM PDT
by
Girlene
To: Steelfish
My thoughts are that marriage is between a man and a woman. Its a well-established, fundamental pillar of society and no group, be they gays, be they NAMBLA, be they people who believe in bestiality it doesnt matter what they are they dont get to change the definition....If people at Johns Hopkins really believe that Dr. Carson was comparing the sexual appetites of gays to those who practice bestiality and pedophila with this statement, it would appear the intellectual prowess of those at Johns Hopkins has been vastly over-rated......
To: dfwgator
54
posted on
03/29/2013 4:58:12 PM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
("I am the master of my fate ... I am the captain of my soul.")
To: cripplecreek
...students at UofM...I believe you mean Johns Hopkins University (JHU), not the University of Maryland (UofM).
55
posted on
03/29/2013 4:59:54 PM PDT
by
foxfield
To: Steelfish
Ignorance is bliss.
The sheeple that repeat many nostrums supporting “same-sex marriage” - as though the issue is all about, and only about “how a couple feels towards each other” are totally ignorant of the legal language used by the activist lawyers and their supportive judges. The sheeple are ignorant of the fact that that legal language is tailor made to suit any “loving couple” (or more) who wants to claim the right to “marriage”. Carson is aware of that even if the sheelple are not.
They know that THEY are not supporting “gay marriage” with the intention of supporting marriage for any adult couple regardless of any conditions, and so they resent Carson connecting gay marriage righta to individuals and groups the sheeple think the issue is not about, or in favor of.
But, contrary to their ignorance, the legal language IS unable to be split off from “gay couples” to anyone else. Legal and judicial decisions based on the activist lawyers and judges legal language and arguments will establish precedents that the same courts will find rationally dificult to ignore that it suits almost anyone.
Ahhh, the activists say, legislatively we can deny all those others.
Really? So, merely legislatively we CAN define who gets to and does not get to “marry”.
Then its not a universal civil right applicable to any kind of couple, and therefore it cannot be a “civil right” for gays either.
56
posted on
03/29/2013 5:00:09 PM PDT
by
Wuli
To: foxfield
No, he’s supposed to give a speech at University of Michigan in the next few weeks and they’re throwing a tantrum about it.
57
posted on
03/29/2013 5:08:37 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: cripplecreek
Thanks. I didn’t know that.
58
posted on
03/29/2013 5:09:45 PM PDT
by
foxfield
To: foxfield
He went to med school at University of Michigan.
59
posted on
03/29/2013 5:19:38 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: Steelfish
Step Down as Commencement Speaker After Protests [Gestapo Tactics!]
Leftist tolerence for free speech bump for later...
60
posted on
03/29/2013 5:26:05 PM PDT
by
indthkr
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