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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: Jane Long; Nervous Tick; All

When I was traveling with my late husband who had advancing Alzheimers, Family Bathrooms were a lifesaver. Seems like a good solution for many large public places.


141 posted on 11/05/2015 8:58:21 PM PST by gleeaikin
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I’m appalled.

You forgot “Amphibian”.


142 posted on 11/05/2015 8:58:53 PM PST by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away...)
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To: CodeToad

I’m considering walking into the biker bar mens’ room and declaring myself “male” every once in a while, next summer.

Might be...amusing.

;D


143 posted on 11/05/2015 9:00:45 PM PST by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away...)
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To: Norm Lenhart

I’m with you.

Keep the freak show away from the family facilities.


144 posted on 11/05/2015 9:01:58 PM PST by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away...)
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To: springwater13

This is confusing. Are they to be all-encompassing or vice versa things? Does everyone use a urinal or a toilet? Should there be bidets or showers or simply hand sanitizer? Is clothing optional or is an attendant needed to help with any garment, um, difficulties? Should there be hair spray, Old Spice or makeup?


145 posted on 11/05/2015 9:03:24 PM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: Salamander

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


Agree.


146 posted on 11/05/2015 9:04:30 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: combat_boots

Skip all that and install a licensed counselor.


147 posted on 11/05/2015 9:06:49 PM PST by Salamander (Like acid and oil on a madman's face, reason tends to fly away...)
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To: springwater13

Thank you Ben ...

148 posted on 11/05/2015 9:09:04 PM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life :o)
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To: Salamander

You’re a redhead. Most of the men will naturally respond with “Works for me” as a survival mechanism ;)


149 posted on 11/05/2015 9:11:00 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (Existential Cage Theory - Embrace it)
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To: Salamander

Mindblowing how many ‘conservatives’ here are just fine with exposing entire families to sexual mental illness when their pants are down. WTF is WRONG with people here?


150 posted on 11/05/2015 9:13:02 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (Existential Cage Theory - Embrace it)
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To: umgud

Remember the SNL skit of “PAT”?


151 posted on 11/05/2015 9:13:26 PM PST by WTFOVR (I find myself exclaiming that expression quite often these days!)
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To: springwater13

To implement this, there will have to be a "Pointers" restroom, a
"Setters" restroom, and a new "Bruce-Jenners" restroom.

152 posted on 11/05/2015 9:14:30 PM PST by Heart-Rest ( "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil!" Isaiah 5:20)
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To: Salamander

Knowing you, it would a show of shows! Bring the slither critter!


153 posted on 11/05/2015 9:23:11 PM PST by CodeToad (Stupid kills, but not nearly enough!)
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To: springwater13

Maybe, the Pharaoh’s had them in their grain storage units? Dr. Ben is getting a little cooky on the trail! Nice guy, becoming a gaffe machine...shades of Uncle Joe...


154 posted on 11/05/2015 9:25:37 PM PST by HoosierWordsmith
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To: springwater13

OMG and we wonder why “conservatives” can’t win.

Even Conservatives don’t support them.

Even republican supporters don’t support the republican candidate.

LMAO and we wonder why we can’t win and we don’t have a say in the political arena.


155 posted on 11/05/2015 9:31:02 PM PST by Twink
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“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.”

An ADA activist in a wheel chair making the rounds of public buildings demanded that a small local public library add an outdoor wheelchair elevator on the front face of the building, because he wasn’t satisfied with the path to the side entrance that everyone else used. The path had no steps and others with wheel chairs had no problem with it. The elevator thing did get built on the front of the building - there was not the will on the part of local government officials to deny the request - but that device, also costing about $10,000 about 15 years ago, was never used by him or anyone else. Public dollars down the drain and the quaint building facade scarred for no reasonable reason.


156 posted on 11/05/2015 9:35:58 PM PST by Seeing More Clearly Now
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To: WTFOVR

I rarely ever watched SNL, so I guess I probably missed that.


157 posted on 11/05/2015 9:36:13 PM PST by umgud (v)
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To: springwater13

The Democrat Party is the party of toilet community organizing

Stay out of it.


158 posted on 11/05/2015 9:38:21 PM PST by PGR88
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To: springwater13

159 posted on 11/05/2015 9:55:23 PM PST by wastedyears (uchikudake - toki michite - ikiru tame - tokihanate)
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To: peyton randolph

Carson is an idiot, forever putting his foot in his mouth, then his poll numbers go up. Who in the world are this baffoon’s supporters.


160 posted on 11/05/2015 10:00:01 PM PST by NKP_Vet (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle,stand like a rock ~ T, Jefferson)
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