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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: FourPeas

Too late. He needed coaching LONG before he tossed his hat in the ring. He is clearly not presidential material.


121 posted on 11/05/2015 7:50:20 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Seems that your definition of “clearly” and mine are very different.


122 posted on 11/05/2015 7:51:08 PM PST by FourPeas ("Maladjusted and wigging out is no way to go through life, son." -hg)
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To: Nervous Tick

+1

123 posted on 11/05/2015 7:53:39 PM PST by SunLakesJeff (Life)
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To: All

The solution is obvious — Democrat and Non-Democrat washrooms. Problem solved.


124 posted on 11/05/2015 7:54:58 PM PST by Peter ODonnell (Hey Vlad, was this what you meant by flexible?)
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To: Whenifhow; Alas Babylon!; Jane Long; All; springwater13; Hostage

This special (and expensive) accomodation dictated by fedzilla started decades ago. 25 years ago, when our kids were in our little town’s parent volunteer preschool, a family with a handicapped child DEMANDED we add a wheelchair ramp for her. It wasn’t good enough to carry her up the four steps into the building. No, that simply wouldn’t do.

I think the ADA compliant ramp cost $10k or $15k.

A couple days before the new term started, they pulled their daughter out of our school. To this day, I doubt the ramp has ever had a wheelchair on it.


125 posted on 11/05/2015 7:58:04 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
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To: FourPeas

Clearly that is so.


126 posted on 11/05/2015 7:58:33 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
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To: Hostage

“How about having the federal government stay the hell out of dictating bathroom arrangements?”

Exactly.


127 posted on 11/05/2015 8:05:41 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: hoosiermama

In Europe, a lot of the bathrooms are stalls with full doors/walls and common sink area (like at restaurants, etc.).

That means a female can walk into a stall that a man just used/vice versa.

I’ve noticed this at a few places in NYC, as well.


128 posted on 11/05/2015 8:06:05 PM PST by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: springwater13

This, coming from supposedly a surgeon.

There is no such thing as a transgender; only mutilated cross-dressing homosexuals.

Kiss his popularity goodbye.


129 posted on 11/05/2015 8:14:26 PM PST by CodeToad (Stupid kills, but not nearly enough!)
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To: Grampa Dave

It was funny considering Carson’s comments.


130 posted on 11/05/2015 8:14:32 PM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance.)
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To: CodeToad

No kiddin’.


131 posted on 11/05/2015 8:15:47 PM PST by RedHeeler
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To: Norm Lenhart

Isn’t it better than 4 bathrooms. Family makes the most sense since the person doesn’t know what sex they are.


132 posted on 11/05/2015 8:16:31 PM PST by napscoordinator (Walker for President 2016. The only candidate with actual real RESULTS!!!!! The rest...talkers!)
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To: springwater13

133 posted on 11/05/2015 8:22:32 PM PST by Rodamala
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To: napscoordinator

So to be clear here, you advocate sticking people with a sexual mental issue into family rest rooms as a lesser evil. Because you support the idea forwarded by the homosexual lobby that a man cannot identify his penis or a woman her vagina.

Before I go down your throat on this I want you to verify that yes, this is indeed what you just said on a conservative forum. Of your own free will. So that I have no remorse and a reduced chance of lightning in my life.


134 posted on 11/05/2015 8:25:35 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (Existential Cage Theory - Embrace it)
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To: tennmountainman

Funny and scary!


135 posted on 11/05/2015 8:28:43 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

Men, Women, Freaks


136 posted on 11/05/2015 8:29:06 PM PST by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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To: Hostage

amen


137 posted on 11/05/2015 8:50:03 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: Jane Long

The “family bathroom” is for parents who need to watch over their kids who are of the opposite sex, like dads with girls or moms with boys and for changing diapers.

The thought of these deranged paraphiliacs invading that space horrifies me.

They should have their own bathroom with “FREAKS” on the door.


138 posted on 11/05/2015 8:54:39 PM PST by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away...)
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To: Grampa Dave; WayneS

B-12 deficiency explains a *lot*.


139 posted on 11/05/2015 8:57:22 PM PST by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away...)
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To: bigtoona

He’s clean and articulate...


140 posted on 11/05/2015 8:57:53 PM PST by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away...)
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