“Christians face a lot of discrimination"
By ‘discrimination’’ Uncle Ben means ‘laughter.’
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We can…can the republicans talk about anything else but gay marriage and abortion and voter restrictions?
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“Everybody needs to be protected from discrimination,” Carson said. He also said that “Everybody has equal rights”… some unique definition of equal I am unaware of when he endorses unequal treatment of people.
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Benghazi?
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The Dr has absolutely nothing to say worth listening to.
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“I don’t really want to talk about the gay issue,” Carson said. “Except maybe you can get the answer for this question: ‘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?’”
How about, don’t get gay married if you don’t want to, and mind your own business when others choose to do so?
How can this guy be such a functional idiot?
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Americans ain’t gonna elect a president with facial hair.
Of course, there are about 524 other reasons why there’s never going to be a President Dr. Ben Carson.
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I can’t remember which one it was, but one of the Supremes (not any of the current ones, maybe Lewis Powell) told his law clerks, “I have never met a gay person.” What an insular, ignorant existence that man must have led. That statement says loads about why a person shouldn’t be a Supreme Court justice.
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Ben Ghazi? Wasn’t he the star of Run for Your Life?
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He’s riding the fence, as he knows he’s dead in the water if he goes full bigot, but he still wants to draw cash from homophobes.
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“Christians face a lot of discrimination. I wish we would talk more about that.”
Wow. I wonder what he’d say if asked to elaborate on all the “Christian Discrimination” he’s suffered or witnessed? We’ve obviously protected Ben Carson for way too long with the “special rights” of affirmative action.
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As Keilar said early in the interview, Carson has previously said gays haven’t experienced segregation the way black Americans have, and so gay rights are not the same as civil rights.
Seems that Coretta Scott King disagreed that gay rights aren’t the same thing as civil rights.
“We are all tied together in a single garment of destiny . . . I can never be what I ought to be until you are allowed to be what you ought to be,” she said, quoting her husband. “I’ve always felt that homophobic attitudes and policies were unjust and unworthy of a free society and must be opposed by all Americans who believe in democracy,” King told 600 people at the Palmer House Hilton, days before the 30th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination on April 4, 1968. She said the civil rights movement “thrives on unity and inclusion, not division and exclusion.” Her husband’s struggle parallels that of the gay rights movement, she said.
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More from Coretta Scott King:
“I still hear people say that I should not be talking about the rights of lesbian and gay people and I should stick to the issue of racial justice,” she said. “But I hasten to remind them that Martin Luther King Jr. said, ‘Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.’” “I appeal to everyone who believes in Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream to make room at the table of brother- and sisterhood for lesbian and gay people,” she said.
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Also, there is no discrimination in the US against Christians. That claim should have been followed up on.
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Or race.
Yep, and as everyone knows, if you straddle the fence, you get a sore arse.
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While lesbians, gays, bisexuals, trans people and the rest of us MOGII’s out there have not experienced the same discrimination as Blacks, neither have Hispanics, Native Americans, or any group. Each of us has our own social biases to face. The problem is, if we stand apart, the forces who work to keep us all down succeed, but if we work together, then we can accomplish a lot.
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Problem is Dr Ben…you don’t know shit about any “important issues”.
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It gets better. One of his clerks was gay.
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He gets the gay hives and they itch so…
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