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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: InterceptPoint

Seems appropriate that Capt. Questionmark is sportin a pup tent in a bathroom situation, all things considered.


61 posted on 11/05/2015 6:35:50 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (Existential Cage Theory - Embrace it)
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To: Crazieman

They already forced business to have a “Family” bathroom. What more do they want. Let the weirdos use the family bathrooms since they forced it on businesses. That seems the logical way to handle this. So now they want 4 bathrooms? Ridiculous.


62 posted on 11/05/2015 6:35:55 PM PST by napscoordinator (Walker for President 2016. The only candidate with actual real RESULTS!!!!! The rest...talkers!)
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To: springwater13

One for boys, one for girls, one for he-shes, one for she-hes, one for homo-he-shes, one for homo-she-shes, ...


63 posted on 11/05/2015 6:35:56 PM PST by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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To: InterceptPoint


I'll think of something ...

Please, Donald and Ted, do NOT bring this up...
64 posted on 11/05/2015 6:36:04 PM PST by SunLakesJeff (Life)
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To: HopeandGlory

This is easy . . . If you have an ‘’Innie’’ you’re a girl . . . if you have an ‘’outie’’ you’re a boy . . . problem solved!


65 posted on 11/05/2015 6:37:15 PM PST by HopeandGlory (Hey, Liberals . . . PC died on 9/11 . . . GET USED TO IT!!!)
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To: InterceptPoint
How about:

XX XY AB

66 posted on 11/05/2015 6:37:49 PM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: napscoordinator

Yes. It’s perfectly to expose the entire family to mentally ill people with sex issues. At once.


67 posted on 11/05/2015 6:38:14 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (Existential Cage Theory - Embrace it)
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To: Alas Babylon!

“Will they pay the thousands of dollars I’ll have to pay workmen to do the work and buy materials?”

$20,000 easy for a commercial building, IFF you can squeeze it in.


68 posted on 11/05/2015 6:39:31 PM PST by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: springwater13

The more he talks, the less I want to listen.


69 posted on 11/05/2015 6:39:45 PM PST by wideawake
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To: Jane Long
I kind of thought the same think at some point, but then I figured the pervs would probably use those bathrooms to look for anonymous hook-ups.
70 posted on 11/05/2015 6:39:56 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Hostage

How about PUT THESE DEVIATES IN JAIL???


71 posted on 11/05/2015 6:40:32 PM PST by WENDLE (Trump is not bought . He is no puppet.)
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To: WayneS

LOL


72 posted on 11/05/2015 6:40:37 PM PST by umgud (v)
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To: springwater13

How about we stop with this stupidly reckless PC accommodation of queer behavior?

Enough with the faggotry already!

Dr. Carson, if you continue with making such asinine remarks, you might as well close up your shop and go home. Notwithstanding the polling wet drams of certain liberal universities and the establishment news media, you really do not a a snowball’s chance, particularly considering your stances on the 2nd Amendment, immigration / amnesty - AND especially your cozy friendship with Al Sharpton and Calypso Louie.


73 posted on 11/05/2015 6:41:48 PM PST by WTFOVR (I find myself exclaiming that expression quite often these days!)
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To: Nervous Tick

Totally agree! Sick of capitulating to all this bullcrap!


74 posted on 11/05/2015 6:41:48 PM PST by ShelleyBear66
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To: SaveFerris
"Yes, equal rights for all." Peter Sellers photo: peter sellers BeingThere 47acaf68.jpg
75 posted on 11/05/2015 6:41:50 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Why don’t we just have rest rooms with locks like in our homes. There is no sign designating who can use it on either of out restrooms. May need to add stalls to the mens room with no shared urinals.


76 posted on 11/05/2015 6:42:23 PM PST by hoosiermama
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To: springwater13

That would require 4 restrooms at each location, with 2 being designated for a small percentage* of the population.

Then, as is typical with Lib grand ideas, there are unintended consequences — other ‘special’ groups and individuals demanding their own restrooms.

* Google says that 0.3% to 0.5% of the population identifies as transgender.

==

Does the Doctor actually think these things through before they come out of his mouth?


77 posted on 11/05/2015 6:43:09 PM PST by TomGuy
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To: Norm Lenhart

I didn’t hire IT, but I threatened to fire to person who did. BTW, IT was thought to be just a very manly and very ugly she with a 1st name of Terry.


78 posted on 11/05/2015 6:43:20 PM PST by umgud (v)
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To: Crazieman

And mine as well. What will be next, and will there be ever an end to all this crap? It is getting to be a little tiresome.


79 posted on 11/05/2015 6:44:13 PM PST by saintgermaine (Is she somehow related)
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To: springwater13

Dr. Carson needs to learn not to allow himself to be baited into gotcha questions like this.


80 posted on 11/05/2015 6:44:33 PM PST by FourPeas ("Maladjusted and wigging out is no way to go through life, son." -hg)
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