Posted on 03/04/2015 5:07:30 PM PST by SeekAndFind
After 500 comments about his prison-sex theory of orientation, I figured you’d be interested in an update. Having taken a ferocious beating in the media for the better part of a day, Carson finally says no mas:
“I also believe that our Constitution protects everybody, regardless of their beliefs, and that includes people who are gay,” Mr. Carson continued. “I have no problem with them doing whatever they want to do. I’m just not willing to change the definition of marriage for anybody, because once you do that, you have to change it for everyone else who comes along. Why would we want to do that? We have something that’s worked for thousands of years to create a nurturing environment for raising children. And I think that’s where we ought to leave it.”
He added: “I simply have decided I’m not going to really talk about that issue anymore, because every time I gain momentum, the liberal press says, ‘let’s talk about gay rights.’ I’m just not going to fall for that anymore.”
Okay, but that’s like Jeb Bush deciding he’s not going to talk about amnesty anymore. It’s one of his pet issues. He’s beloved by his supporters because of his opinion on that particular topic. Ben Carson muting his social conservatism on the most hot-button social issue of the day makes him Mike Huckabee minus the boldness (and executive experience), a major flaw for a guy running as an “outsider.” If you like Carson, chances are you like him precisely because he’s not a politician and therefore more likely to speak candidly about his opinions when asked. He’s the one you turn to for Common Sense that cuts through political niceties. What’s the point of passing on Ted Cruz or Huckabee and rolling the dice on Carson if his attitude towards plainspoken debate with the media on gay marriage going forward is “yeah, pass”?
Say this for him, though: He’s going to end up making a lot of consultants very, very rich. Not Bush-level rich, but still. Click the image to listen.
He is a compromiser. Sodomy and sodomites are evil/wicked. It’s gross, vile disgusting. It should be so stated. Anything short of this plants the seeds of destruction, logically.
Wow. I don’t think I have ever seen a more disastrous first 24 hours of a presidential (or any) candidate in history. First was his ill-advised “exploratory committee” announcement — on the day of Bibi’s speech. Does he read a newspaper? Then the bizarre prison/gay comments to Cuomo. Carson always had an odd way with words, but it is damn clear he would not even finish in the top 3 in the GOP race. Well at least the RunBenRun fundraising shyster John Phillips Sousa IV made millions on his name while it lasted.
[When one puts oneself in the situation where one knows one will face such, then surrendering and fleeing bespeaks character flaws.]
Oh, really? What more would like him to say on the subject?
Character flaw? When one says this is a character flaw of Dr. Carson that one appears to be talking through one’s lowest orifice.
Not a simple answer, a cop out answer just like close the border first. Both answers give tacit approval to the perversion and invasion.
We don't.
Rom 1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
Rom 1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
Rom 1:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
Rom 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in [their] knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
Rom 1:29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
Rom 1:30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
Rom 1:31 Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
Rom 1:32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
Wavering indicates a lack of conviction.
Dr. Carson was brave to say what he said, but to allow the libs to run him out of the room so to speak, when he knows what their reaction will be, shows either inexperience or lack of real belief in one’s positions or both—one cannot let fear take hold. As Winston Churchill once said, “Never, never, never give up.”
Indeed. The “states’ issue” copout allows for a violation of Article 4 Section 4 Clause 1 of the Constitution, allowing for any tyrannical and/or licentious government to assert itself at that level.
How do you get Dr Carson’s comments to speak to gay rights vs. speaking to all people’s rights, including gays? Seems you’ve done a helluva spin here.
[Wavering indicates a lack of conviction.]
I don’t think Dr. Carson shows a lack of conviction. Granted he probably has never faced the presstitutes before and this will be a good early learning experience for him. How he answers to similar “gotcha” questions in the future will tell if he has or has not learned from this experience
He comes across as Mr. Rogers of the presidential candidate field. I’ll pass.
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