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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: Grampa Dave

Where’s the beef?


41 posted on 11/05/2015 6:28:04 PM PST by WayneS (Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
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To: Dalberg-Acton

Whoever decides they need to cater to homosexuals. It’s on them.


42 posted on 11/05/2015 6:28:11 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Is the pope Catholic?)
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To: springwater13; Jane Long; BlackFemaleArmyCaptain; Black Agnes; djstex; mkjessup; visualops; ...

Ben has gone liberal!!! that is what this is all about...he has been liberal all the time, trying to knock Trump out...all planned by the GOPe....

We have been wondering what is going on, well here it is!!!

He’s behind Hillary and the GOPe....


43 posted on 11/05/2015 6:28:52 PM PST by HarleyLady27 (I have such happy days, and hope you do too!!!)
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To: springwater13
If I ran a small restaurant out in the county, is the power of the federal government going to be used to COMPELL me to have a third or fourth* bathroom???

Will they pay the thousands of dollars I'll have to pay workmen to do the work and buy materials? What about lost business due to construction?

Just a dumb-ass idea. Too many see the role of society is to regulate every minuscule aspect of behavior, and don't stop to think for a few seconds that the government can only force and compel. Resist and die, comply and obey and go out of business.

*Current: Male/Female; Future: Male/T-Male/Female/T-Female

44 posted on 11/05/2015 6:29:18 PM PST by Alas Babylon! (As we say in the Air Force, "You know you're over the target when you start getting flak!")
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To: umgud

Why in Gods name did you hire someone so F’s up you couldn’t tell what they were in the first place?


45 posted on 11/05/2015 6:29:24 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (Existential Cage Theory - Embrace it)
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To: springwater13

He’s like that feather in Forrest Gump just flitting all over the place whichever way the wind blows.

I’m starting to wonder if he has multiple personality disorder.

That would explain the closed eyes-switching over to another personality.


46 posted on 11/05/2015 6:29:44 PM PST by Califreak (Hope and Che'nge is killing U.S. Feel the Trump-mentum!(insert ireallysupportCruzdisclaimerhere/))
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To: umgud

That’s all well and good, but what I want to know is: why did you hire so many revolting people?


47 posted on 11/05/2015 6:30:01 PM PST by WayneS (Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
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To: springwater13

How bout we go to “Church” on Saturday too.

Carson the cultist is a JOKE.

This years black pizza guy Herman Cain.

http://onpolitics.usatoday.com/2015/11/04/ben-carson-stumbles-on-cuba-questions/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/11/05/ben-carson-believes-joseph-built-egypts-pyramids-to-store-grain-and-it-just-may-get-him-some-votes/


48 posted on 11/05/2015 6:31:03 PM PST by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA)
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To: springwater13
The good Doc would be advised to respond with "No comment" to these kind of "social" issues lest the always-alert-for-a-racial-angle mainstream media turn his answer into something he did not intend.

A declining number of Southerners can attest to the cost and inconvenience of building and maintaining two sets of restrooms, as required by law.

49 posted on 11/05/2015 6:31:51 PM PST by logician2u
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To: rockinqsranch

CONFUSED


50 posted on 11/05/2015 6:32:13 PM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: springwater13

Carson is an idiot. So now we have to have special bathrooms for faggots who like to dress as girls?


51 posted on 11/05/2015 6:32:45 PM PST by Godebert
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To: springwater13
This is so much fun. The Pyramids were good but Transgender Bathrooms are ... I'm speechless ... let me see ... I'll think of something ...


52 posted on 11/05/2015 6:32:58 PM PST by InterceptPoint
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To: springwater13

My question to Dr. Carson is: “Will these bathrooms have attendants?” /s

Surely our Government would create a NEW Dept of attendants.


53 posted on 11/05/2015 6:33:45 PM PST by VideoDoctor
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To: logician2u

No, best this come out now rather than in office. Let him fry himself. The only people still on board are moderates anyway. At best.


54 posted on 11/05/2015 6:34:09 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (Existential Cage Theory - Embrace it)
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To: Hostage

This would be a big deal for businesses,costing billions to accommodate a relatively rare psychiatric condition.


55 posted on 11/05/2015 6:34:29 PM PST by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: springwater13

Carson, that’s plain crazy talk. It means architectural mandates worth $100 billion.


56 posted on 11/05/2015 6:35:08 PM PST by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: Jane Long

Saw a public bathroom the other day simply labeled “Bathroom”. One person room with a lock on the door. Handicap compliant, had a changing tray for dealing with baby’s diapers and plenty of room so mom could go in with kids. Don’t know why that wouldn’t work everywhere or is that too simple?

Obviously wouldn’t work in sports venue areas or schools but should be fine for retail establishments.


57 posted on 11/05/2015 6:35:14 PM PST by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: springwater13

Carson really says some off the wall stuff some times.


58 posted on 11/05/2015 6:35:18 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel (I LOVE JESUS CHRIST because He first loved me!)
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To: peyton randolph

It’s not really a dumb idea...what he was trying to do was wiggle out of a question where if he answered truthfully, it would erupt a firestorm on him.

I would prefer the answer; that they should “use the can that is assigned to their sex”. He should have said the idea of “gender” is absurd. Nobody has a gender, they have a sex....male or female.

This was a take-down question, and Carson tried “not so artfully” to dodge it.


59 posted on 11/05/2015 6:35:46 PM PST by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: InterceptPoint

Love that sign!


60 posted on 11/05/2015 6:35:48 PM PST by Kenny (RED)
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