Dr. Carson at it Again, “LGBT Issues Should be Kept [in the closet] Personal”

By Elizabeth Nelson

I'll say it again, this is who people want as the next President of the United States? Another no-experience motivational gaffer? One has to wonder if Dr. Carson thinks before he speaks, which is rather ironic coming from a man who made his fortune working on brains. Okay, so maybe Carson didn't say gays should "stay in the closet," but he did say that gays and lesbians should keep their business at home and in the bedroom, which is where they want government and all us right-wingers to stay out of.   

Potential presidential candidate Ben Carson doesn't want to talk about LGBT issues.

I guess that is, anymore.

Perhaps Dr. Carson is still stinging from his latest queer gaffe - in a long line of gaffes - and the rebuff he got when he stated that being gay is a choice and that a lot of straight prison inmates come out gay, when they wind up someone’s “friend”. Wait, with no guns in prison, except for the law-man, rape and violence shouldn't exist in prisons, right? Oh, but that’s another topic for another day.

The neurosurgeon insisted Thursday on CNN's "New Day" that the topic is "a personal issue" that should be left to private forums -- not discussed in a public forum like the media.

"It seems to be a topic -- a person's sexual orientation -- that is of fair amount of concern to you. I don't find it to be anywhere near as interesting," Carson said Thursday. "I think it's a personal issue and we ought to leave it as a personal issue."

"Leave...the personal issues to the personal people," Carson added.

Carson also refused to share his views in the widely discredited practice of gay conversion therapy, which is intended to make gay people feel heterosexual. The White House officially announced Wednesday it supports banning the practice.
While he called for LGBT rights to remain a private issue, Carson called for a "much greater conversation about Christians and their rights."

"Why are we not talking about that?" Carson asked.

Religious discrimination, like discrimination on the basis of race or gender, is protected under the Constitution. Sexual orientation is not protected under the Constitution and LGBT groups are pushing for anti-discrimination laws tailored to protect members of that community.

Carson would not say whether he thinks religious groups or LGBT individuals received more protections under the law.

The intolerant irony is not lost on me, how 13 gay bakeries can get away with not making a “pro-hetero-marriage” cake, because it "goes against what they stand for." Oh, and it’s acceptable and not surprising for Muslim bakeries to turn away a “gay” request, but yet OMG the Christian is not only sued but crucified for doing the same thing?  Yet, there is no Christian persecuting in our Country. 

"I would like to see as much emphasis on the rights of Christians and people who are members of the faith community as there is to some of the other groups," he said. "The important thing is for us as a nation to recognize that all citizens of the United Sates are protected by our constitution. We need to stop deciding that one group versus another group is the flavor of the day and we need to do things that provide for justice and liberty for everybody."

Carson's comments come as the Supreme Court prepares to weigh in on same-sex marriage this summer and in the wake of the recent controversy over the push for controversial "religious freedom" laws that could give business owners leeway to refuse services to gay couples planning to get married, for example. Read more CNN

What slays me about fighting over a cake is, instead of acting like an adult and doing the shopping wisely and maturely, they want to get their panties in a wad and start a food fight like a bunch of spoiled sissy bitc*es, instead of going to a shop that will actually do what they ask.  Do you liberals go to a bar, when you want chocolate milk, or to church when you want a lap dance?

How do I know that there are places that will “do what they ask?” Easy, gays and lesbians have several searchable business directories. Now, before liberals go all victim mentality, “oh, it’s pathetic that they have to have a directory.” Christians have had a directory of Christian Businesses for over a decade, because of narrow-minded liberal idiots.  We support our own, first-and-foremost. 

Although Dr. Carson is a renowned neurosurgeon and a moving motivational speaker, much like Obama has the gift to stir people’s emotions; this “keep it in the closet” gaffe among all his other gaffes, divisive leanings and hints of Constitution double-mindedness shows me that Dr. Carson is far from ready to lead our Country as President of the United States.

Sadly, the LGBT have been fighting with Christians for so long over the word “marriage”, they’ve lost sight of what they wanted and now just enjoy being a bully over cake; when they could have been a joined couple with all the perks and benefits decades ago. However, they were too stubborn and short sided to think outside the box.  All they had to do was have Congress acknowledge Civil Unions as being equal to the rights and federal protections of “marriage,” and they would have conquered the so-called issues between the two. 

If this is what they were really after in the first place.  Honestly, I think they just wanted the word “marriage,” because it sounds better, but now even that has been changed to, “same-sex-marriage,” soon, it will be wrong to say the word, “gay” because that will be “derogatory” where once that word meant, “joyful and happy.” What word will they hijack next and be called then, I wonder?