What Would Ben Carson Think If Being Black Was A Choice?

The political outrage of the day for Wednesday centers around remarks that brain surgeon and Republican presidential exploratorer Dr. Ben Carson made about homosexuality, or to put it another way, today is a day. On CNN’s New Day, Dr. Carson patiently explained to Chris Cuomo that being gay is a choice because prison:

CUOMO: One issue, same-sex marriage. You have equal protection. It’s working its way through the courts. The decisions are getting more and more uniform. But then you have people of faith who say marriage is ours. God says it is a man and a woman. The Bible says my faith says — which one wins with Dr. Carson?

CARSON: Here’s what I would do. I would do what the Constitution says. The Constitution says civil issues of that nature should be determined at the state level. Why does it say that? Because the judicial system at the state level has to answer to the people.

CUOMO: What if people of the state vote for a law 100-0 that winds up infringing on the rights of a minority, like happened very often with slavery? Like many would argue is happening now with people who are gay?

CARSON: And our Constitution was followed, and we corrected those things.

CUOMO: And isn’t that what’s happening right now with same-sex marriage? It’s being corrected as a form of violation of equal protection.

CARSON: No. You can’t just say because it happened that way this time. This is the same situation. It’s not the same situation.

CUOMO: Why not?

CARSON: Because people have no control over their race, for instance.

CUOMO: You think they have control over their sexuality?

CARSON: Absolutely.

CUOMO: You think being gay is a choice?

CARSON: Absolutely. CUOMO: Why do you say that?

CARSON: Because a lot of people who go into prison, go into prison straight, and when they come out they’re gay. So did something happen while they were in there?

CUOMO: Most gays never go to prison. And you know there’s a whole theory of dominance.

CARSON: Wait a minute. I said a lot of people who go in come out — are you denying that that’s true?

CUOMO: I am not denying that that’s true, but I am denying that that’s a basis of understanding homosexuality.

CARSON: If, in fact, that is the case, then it obviously thwarts what you just said.

There is so much gaping stupid here, I hardly know where to start, but I’ll go with the very most obvious, which is that people don’t choose to go to prison. They also don’t choose to get raped in prison. I’m no brain surgeon, but it sounds to me like Dr. Carson has just proved that…READ MORE

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By: Tommy Christopher

Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.