Posted on 01/14/2017 1:51:14 PM PST by NYer
WASHINGTON, D.C., January 13, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – Dr. Ben Carson reiterated at his confirmation hearing Thursday that individuals identifying as LGBT shouldn’t get special rights.
All Americans deserve protection under the law, Carson said, but no one is entitled to “extra rights.”
Trump has appointed Carson as Housing and Urban Development (HUD) secretary.
Questioned during the hearing by Ohio Democrat Senator Sherrod Brown on whether he would enforce protections for LGBT Americans in public housing, Carson reconfirmed his previously stated belief.
“Of course, I would enforce all the laws of the land,” Carson said. “Of course, I think all Americans should be protected by the law.”
He then added, “What I have said before is I don’t think anyone should get ‘extra rights.’”
Carson made the same point in a 2014 speech at CPAC, a major conservative conference, earning the ire of LGBT and gay “marriage” advocates the year before the June 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court ruling legalizing homosexual “marriage.”
“Of course gay people should have the same rights as everyone else,” he said at the time. “But they don't get extra rights. They don't get to redefine marriage.”
The retired neurosurgeon and former GOP presidential candidate has spoken frankly about homosexuality and other issues in the past.
He faced backlash in 2015 for saying homosexuality was a choice. Later the same year when asked by a journalist if transgender individuals should be allowed access to the restroom of the opposite sex, he replied, "It is not fair for them to make everybody else uncomfortable."
“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,” Carson said.
At July’s Republican National Convention Carson said the idea of gender fluidity was absurd.
“For thousands of years, mankind has known what a man is and what a woman is, and now, all of a sudden we don’t know anymore,” he stated. “Now, is that the height of absurdity?”
Carson first came to political prominence in 2013 when he criticized Obamacare while giving the National Prayer Breakfast keynote address with Obama on the stage beside him.
That same year the longtime director of pediatric neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital stepped down as commencement speaker for the university’s School of Medicine and School of Education graduation after anger from homosexual activists over comments he’d made defending marriage.
“Marriage is between a man and a woman,” Carson told Fox News host Sean Hannity. “It’s a well-established, fundamental pillar of society and no group — be they gays, be they NAMBLA, be they people who believe in bestiality, it doesn’t matter what they are — they don’t get to change the definition.”
A former GOP presidential rival to Trump, Carson was one of the first to support the president-elect as the presumptive Republican nominee after dropping out of the race in March.
If one expects special rights then they are not equal they are a problem to everyone else.
Ben Carson might could dazzle those transgendered the facts of X and Y chromosomes.
He’s a brain surgeon and they ain’t!
BRAVO for BEN CARSON!
No special rights. The same is enough.
I’ll add to what Dr. Carson says though. We are supposeldy a land of equal opportunity not equal outcome.
Why the hell is it though that I have to wrok my ass off to provide for my family day in and day out and several others too on a permananet basis as well? Our system is not one of support and help it is simply perpetual care for slugs.
Why is it that I can only afford chicken and hamburger while I have to watch the EBT cards go for steaks?
Why is it that I have to pay $20,000 a year for health insurance I can’t use until I spend another $7,500 and still have to pay for someone else to get the Silver plan?
That is not only not equal opportunity it is unequal outcome for no work or input.
The Bible says you don’t work and you don’t eat. Those aren’t the rules anymore.
Cincinnati’s Citizens For Community Values saw this idiocy coming 20 years ago and pushed for an equal rights not special rights law.
Of course, the leftists and militant gays were outraged because someone had beaten them to the punch and predicted with absolute accuracy their future plans.
As we all know now, CCV were spot on...
| 2357 Homosexuality refers to relations between men or between women who experience an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction toward persons of the same sex. It has taken a great variety of forms through the centuries and in different cultures. Its psychological genesis remains largely unexplained. Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that "homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered." They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved. |
Good man!!
Looks like he doesn’t accept the lesson taught by Orwell’s pigs: “All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others”.
LGBT American's public housing should be a "gated community". (and locked from the outside). ;)
Absolutely. He is a national treasure. Had he won the nomination, I would have voted for him in a heartbeat.
LOL
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It can’t be genetic, which anyone who believes in science knows. If homos were born that way (genetically programmed) there would be less and less of them till they disappeared, since they can’t reproduce. A genetic variation that results in sterility is very quickly eliminated for obvious reasons. I guess I’m the only one aware of that, as I’ve never seen it in print.
Christian and Feminist Groups Team Up to Challenge Obama’s Bathroom Mandate
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2017/01/14/christian-and-feminist-groups-team-up-to-challenge-obamas-bathroom-mandate-n2271124?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=
“Homosexuality IS a choice. One CHOOSES to engage in it or not.”
Same-sex attraction disorder is induced by the trauma of a molestation or seduction in the pre-adult years.
Although I hate to associate it in any way with conduct on the battlefield, it has three similarities to PTSD: it is induced by a trauma; only some who suffer the trauma develop the disorder; and the trauma knocks you off kilter with great emotional violence. The victim has no choice in that.
It is different in that many different kinds of trauma can induce PTSD, while only the trauma of a molestation or seduction in the pre-adult years induces SSAD.
Homosexuality is not a “lifestyle” or a “choice.” SSAD in men is a serious disorder that manifests as a compulsion to engage in pseudo-sexual practices (correctly described by G. K. Chesterton as “loathsome perversions”) with other males, combined with a fixation on youth. Note the word “compulsion.” It seems to be such a strong compulsion that it inevitably erupts into action, even if only during an annual visit to the boy brothels of Thailand.
If you ever have the chance, discuss this with a man who suffers from SSAD. He will at first deny it, but if you pursue the matter, and if he hangs around instead of fleeing, you will sooner or later uncover a seduction or molestation in the pre-adult years.
The victim will probably have rationalized the trauma such that he believes he was already homosexual when it happened, and the perpetrator merely helped him “explore his sexuality.”
If you get to the point that he is asking if he had never allowed the predator to nail him in the keister—or had never been raped by the predator, whichever—that he would never have become homosexual, you will see in his face what the Greeks were trying to copy in their masks of Tragedy.
The good choice at this point is to seek treatment. Since the victim is surrounded by so many lying voices glorifying his suffering, it’s not likely that this road will be chosen.
Ugh ... I'll take your word for it.
Dr. Carson is precisely right.
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