Posted on 04/06/2013 8:37:40 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
Dr. Ben Carson on Friday apologized to Johns Hopkins University for “poorly chosen” comments he made last week in which he seemed to compare gay relationships to pedophilia and bestiality.
The pediatric neurosurgeon’s message to the Hopkins community came after a top university official issued a statement calling Carson’s words “offensive” and saying he would meet with students who want Carson removed as commencement speaker.
(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...
Maybe there isn’t one.
Did Ben Carson just win?
My comment is not negative just to be negative, it is simply reality.
If you are going to fight an enemy who intends to destroy you, then you had best be prepared to fight for your life.
If you kick him in the balls and he accuses you of dealing a low blow, then you kick him in the balls again and then knee him in the mouth when he cries about it.
This is a war.
What wins wars is strength. People follow strength.
Apologizing to the enemy because he said you offended him is the folly of fools.
It is not strength, it is not even close to strength, and what he said was right, and now he is apologizing for it.
It is truly amazing how quickly the left can destroy a person’s reputation. Even John Stewart was mocking him the other night and I am sure his huge audience now believes that Dr Carson is a total idiot. The only person who came back stronger is Sarah Palin. I think Dr Carson should make a trip to Alaska and stay with Sarah and Todd for a week. He needs to get some good advice on how to handle the media.
BTW you know that Obama could not stand the spotlight on another AA man who actually accomplished something in life.
> When do liberals, the media and the left ever apologize?
Never, of course.
Even worse, the right has NOTHING to apologize for.
Yes, that's as far as ANY apology should go.
You’re right. Good on Rick.
Apologizing for telling the truth shows how weak he is
This needs to be memorized by *ALL* conservatives!
You’ve got that right.
So, for a Sodomite to be compared to a Pedophile is offensive. Who would have thunk it. My only question is which one of the two perverts is offended?
When I watched the movie on TNT I think, I didn’t know who he was and was touched by such a sweet story. When I saw the Prayer Breakfast, it dawned on me who the movie had been about. It gave me such a full picture of who he is.
Santorum does his own version of groveling, like fighting to keep Specter in the Senate in 2004, defeating Toomey by less than 2% and then trying to defeat Toomey again in 2010, in total devotion to Specter, or supporting and campaigning for Specter’s Presidential run on the platform of making the GOP a pro-abortion party in 1996.
I can only imagine the vitriol the Carson family has had to endure the last month. Remember that there is a Mrs Carson and children involved in this drama and knowing how the left works I am sure they have been working them over. Remember how quickly they went after the Palin children because they knew Sarah was the strongest link.
This must have been what it was like to live in Sodom or Gommorah...
Soon...soon they will demand people like Carson ...come out and have sex with them, not just approve of their lifestyle.
They kept bringing pressure on Lot and moved forward to break down the door. But the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house and shut the door. Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, young and old, with blindness so that they could not find the door.
Judges 19:13-27 While they were enjoying themselves, some of the wicked men of the city surrounded the house. Pounding on the door, they shouted to the old man who owned the house, “Bring out the man who came to your house so we can have sex with him.” The owner of the house went outside and said to them, “No, my friends, don’t be so vile. Since this man is my guest, don’t do this disgraceful thing. Look, here is my virgin daughter, and his concubine. I will bring them out to you now, and you can use them and do to them whatever you wish. But to this man, don’t do such a disgraceful thing.” But the men would not listen to him. So the man took his concubine and sent her outside to them, and they raped her and abused her throughout the night, and at dawn they let her go. At daybreak the woman went back to the house where her master was staying, fell down at the door and lay there until daylight. When her master got up in the morning and opened the door of the house and stepped out to continue on his way, there lay his concubine, fallen in the doorway of the house, with her hands on the threshold. (NIV)
The story of Lot and the story from Judges. But...what is really going on here? What is the real connection? It isn’t about homosexuality really. Homosexuality isn’t about sex...it is about power.
From the base of power, what is happening now with the gay agenda has nothing to do with the ‘sex of the matter.’
Don’t forget creep Santorum went on ‘Face the Nation’ and effectively declared George Zimmerman guilty of murder!
It's offensive to them because a "pedophile" would probably be opposite sex. Packers are actually "pederasts" (boy-rapers)
So the latest experiment in conservative race politics crashed and burned huh? I’m shocked.
Carson has now been neutered by the Left.
Carson screwed up by apologizing. Worse, he screwed up -- and zillions of "conservatives" and Republicans screw this up -- by putting the gay marriage issue in the wrong context. It isn't whether or not gays "should be able to" get married or adopt children or take positions of leadership in youth groups like the Boy Scouts or force your local school to include "education" about the gay lifestyle or take part in on-line matchmaking services. THE REAL ISSUE is that Americans, every single one of us, HAS THE RIGHT TO REFUSE to play along privately AND publicly, in business and in social choices.
Until elections are monitored and vote ginning and manufacturing are openly and aggressively attacked for the cheating they are, and IDs are required at the polls, ALL OF THIS is totally absolutely moot. Get it through your head that MOST REBULAR, PRODUCTIVE AMERICANS are like we FReepers. Don't believe it? Go to the Reader Comments section of any mainistream news place online, whether its CBS, ABC, Yahoo, LA Times, or any other supposedly "neutral" news source, and you will see that generally common sense moral right-thinkers like us, though not necessarily self-decribed "conservatives" and certainly not self-declared "Republicans," dominate. Read the comments at the Blaze, for example, on this very story that's linked. There are a very large number of comments from people who think Carson shouldn't have apologized.
I'm getting a little frustrated at conservatives and "Republicans" stupidly mum on the real issue, the one that is at the root of why Americans are so opposed (though the MSM makes it look otherwise) to the gay agenda. Down deep, the bulk of average Americans recognize that it isn't about gays being able to reap all the legal benefits of marriage (which they could do ANYWAY with certain legal arrangments). It's about how "gay rights" is about TAKING AWAY OUR RIGHT OF REFUSAL TO PARTICIPATE.
EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US has the God-given right to peacefully tell those homosexuals who want to adopt children to find some other adoption agency, thank you very much; to find some other youth group, thank you very much; to go to some other online dating service, thank you very much; etc. Let gays pretend to get married if they want -- but if a church, a photographer, a bakery, a hotel, a reception site, a tailor, a florist, a preacher, or anyone else wants to refuse to be involved BECAUSE of the homosexuality involved, that should be their right.
As it is now, the government and gay agenda works to FORBID adoption agencies from excluding gay men as adoptive parents, to FORBID youth groups from telling homosexuals who want to get involved to take a hike; to FORBID matchmaking companies, as happened to EHarmony dot com, from only matching heterosexuals and telling gay people to take their business elsewhere -- EHarmony was FORCED to include gay matchmaking in its service! THAT is what this is all about. It isn't about whether or not you think gay people should be able to get married. It's about whether or not you think regular, peaceful people have the right to tell gay folks in their community to go be openly gay somewhere else because we don't want it around our kids and our families.
Here's the deal, Rhubarbk: The Republican party has for so long betrayed Americans who have in good conscience voted Republican to restrain government, that it has permanently LOST its base. It's too late, it is dead and gone, and anyone serious about taking this country back must recognize that a THIRD PARTY that will transcend the negative "liberal" (read media consumer comments and see how many Americans truly despise "liberals," not neccessarily "Democrats") and "Republican" stereotype labels is the ONLY path to recovery. For crying out loud, Romney was on record saying he believed that gay men "whou loved each other" should be able to adopt children (by which he really meant the government should be able to force adoption agencies to cooperate) and Romney was ALL FOR getting rid of don't Ask Don't Tell in the military. The GOP is dead and gone. Voting for its candidates, as personified by Romney, is voting against conservative limited government interests 100 percent. DUMP THE GOP and start clamoring for politicians who insist on voter ID and election monitoring.
Carson apologized to the enemy ?? Get real. JH is his employer for heaven’s sake...
Yes, that is right.
He blinked, and now it’s game over.
That is all it takes.
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