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“Everybody needs to be protected from discrimination,” Carson said. “Everybody probably has somebody who discriminates against them because there are people with small minds who think that way.”
“Every group faces some type of discrimination,” Carson continued. “Christians face a lot of discrimination. I wish we would talk more about that.”
Ben, the difference between discrimination against LGBT people and “discrimination” against Christians is that LGBT people are born that way. On the other hand, being a holier-than-thou Christian is a choice.
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Sounds like Dr. Carson just figured out that being anti-LGBT+ in this day and age is probably not healthy for one’s political aspirations. The problem is that, when you’ve been anti-gay for as long as he has, it’s hard for people to talk about anything else.
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“Christians face a lot of discrimination. I wish we would talk more about that.”
WHERE? Because I don’t see it. Disagreeing with someone is not discrimination.
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Feel free to stop making a jack-ass of yourself over the issue any time you want, idiot.
Or put another way:
Same sex marriage isn’t gay privilege, it’s equal rights. Privilege would be something like gay people not paying taxes. Like churches don’t.
h/t Ricky Gervais
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I recall a sketch on the Daily Show in which Samantha Bee talked to a Christian radio host about how gays were assaulting, discriminating against, and doing horrible things to Christians only for him to realize at the end that it wasn’t happening and he had gotten caught having admitted that what he’d been saying was a load of bull.
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“I think the Constitution protects every single American,” Carson said. “Everybody has equal rights, nobody has extra rights.”
Mr. Carson, WTF are ¨extra¨ rights? Ones that you disagree with?
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Bill Maher did a bit last Friday challenging the people who keep saying Christianity is under attack to give examples besides Bill Maher himself.
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"‘What position can a person take who has no animosity toward gay people,
but believes in the traditional definition of marriage that would be
acceptable?’”
Well, Ben, how about not insisting that the legal system support your “belief” about traditional marriage. Why insist that everyone in the US be compelled by law to follow your particular beliefs? Some people have sincerely held religious beliefs that interracial couples should not marry, others that people unwilling or unable to procreate should not marry, still others that divorced people should not remarry. I do not doubt their sincerity, I just do not think the US government should be in the business of telling me I have to follow your religious beliefs.
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But in the Age of Rhetorical Overkill it’s sure presented that way, isn’t it? Some Germans disagreed with the Jews having full economic participation in the society and then what happened next? THE HOLOCAUST. See? Asking billionaires to pay some taxes or suggesting that gays should have the same rights straights do LEADS TO THE HOLOCAUST because shut up is why.
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Stop fighting against gay rights and we won’t have to discuss it at all.
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When one is an unabashed bigot, it’s sometimes hard to get the press to focus on his other positions, such as how to best deny food stamps to hungry kids.
I’m really shocked at the amount of gay bashing and war on women talk from the Republican candidates so far. Don’t any of them even want to pretend to be electable?
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“Everybody needs to be protected from discrimination,” Carson said. “Everybody probably has somebody who discriminates against them because there are people with small minds who think that way.”
The points in this bigot’s own comments fly right over his own damned head.
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You just know that there’s going to be a gay kid, gay sibling or some other gay family in the picture here.
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For some reason, that so very obvious fact never seems to get through the Stupid Brain barrier. Empathy – folks like Carson seem unable to feel this emotion/understanding for anyone unlike themselves.
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He was so spot on. That was one his best ever New Rules
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In other words, can we stop talking about stuff that is eventually going to sink my short lived career as a politician, let alone president
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Just like Justice John Roberts’ cousin, whom he seems to not give a shit about. (That said, I still am holding out a tiny bit of hope he gets it in his vote in the next week or so–and proves me wrong.).
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Dr. Carson missed his calling as a comedian. At least I have to laugh even when I see him, before I read him. He’s already quite entertaining, disgusting, but entertaining.
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Ben Carson exists to prove that my dislike of Michele Bachmann has nothing to do with gender.
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