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.
Catholic ping!
GO BEN GO!!!
“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?”
Ben is a thinker, so, welcome to Team Trump! Help us to Make America Great Again!
I love that Dr. Carson so rightly grouped these perversions together.
The Speech Control Thugs at it again
Homosexuality IS a choice. One CHOOSES to engage in it or not.
“They” do not deserve “extra rights” No quotas, no affirmative action preferences, no adoptive rights, no extra monies for mental health, STDs, HIV/AIDS. You play, you pay
The QWEERTY.
Bravo, Ben. Well-worded. No extra rights for anybody. We are all equal under the law.
Ben.
LGBT, Liquor, Guns, Bacon & T!ts?
Damned straight (no pun intended). Very glad he’s found a place in the administration. HUD is a far more powerful agency in peoples’ everyday lives than anything the Surgeon General oversees, who is just an adviser to a cabinet member (Sec. Of HHS).
Ben recognizes that forcing all these perversions into LAW, is the way to bring in the supremacy of evil and bring the normal and traditional and the Christian to heel.
The perverted get rid of Christianity and then see the Muslim radicals come in and overwhelm the perverted.
The main gay activist argument is that if people do it it is ok.
Certainly one of the wisest men of my generation.
It takes a great deal of courage these days to speak the truth. He needs encouragement so that more will follow his lead.
Awesome, Dr. Carson!!! Speak your mind! Let’s bring some sanity back.
I like this man more every day.
Thank you for being the voice of reason, once again.
At the very least, the “B” and “T” in LGBT are pure nonsense. Bisexual hedonists are a political rights movement? I think not.
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