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Barney Frank Gets Personal In Response To Ben Carson's Ridiculous Comments That Being Gay Is A Choice
Barney Frank became a spokesman for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality as the country's first congressman to voluntarily come out, and in a conversation with HuffPost Live, Frank had strong words about comments by Ben Carson, who recently stated on CNN that being gay is "absolutely" a choice.
The former Massachusetts Congressman, who has a new memoir out titled Frank, referenced troublesome mentalities like Ben Carson's as he described to host Alyona Minkovski the struggle of being a young teen who knew he wanted to go into politics but also knew "people hated gay people."
"For those like Ben Carson, who just announced that it was a choice, I do want to say at 14 I did not choose to be a member of what I thought was the most hated group in America. That was not a typical teenage reaction at the time," Frank said Tuesday.
Presidential hopeful Carson has since apologized for his comments, which cited prison as an example to back his claims. In an e-mailed statement to reporters, Carson wrote: I do not pretend to know how every individual came to their sexual orientation. I regret that my words to express that concept were hurtful and divisive. For that I apologize unreservedly to all that were offended, TIME reported.
Watch the full HuffPost Live conversation with Barney Frank here.
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Barney Frank Gets Personal In Response To Ben Carson's Ridiculous Comments That Being Gay Is A Choic (Original Post)
DonViejo
Mar 2015
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RKP5637
(67,112 posts)1. Ben Carson is a damn fool, no apology will change that fact. n/t
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)2. It is time for every one who gets out and says things like this to have
reparative therapy for the extreme homophobic. If it works (we know it doesn't) to reverse choices then it should work for those who makes the choice to say dumb thing, huh.
daleanime
(17,796 posts)3. Why do they always add....
"were offended"? Are you apologizing or not. If you are, don't qualify who your apologizing to.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)4. Being gay is natural; it's hating gays that's a choice.