To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (706506 ) 3/29/2013 3:12:34 PM From: tejek Read Replies (3) | Respond to Ted, you probably think solar power would be as cheap as oil if it weren't for those damn right-wingers. Carson to bow out of Johns Hopkins event after anti-gay comments Steve Benen a far-right cause celebre just last month after using his National Prayer Breakfast platform to condemn the Affordable Care Act, which inexplicably led conservative news outlets to tout him as a possible 2016 presidential candidate.But the more he talks, the more trouble Carson finds himself in. This week, the doctor equated homosexuality with pedophilia and bestiality , which led to criticism from Carson's own colleagues at Johns Hopkins. Soon after, a group of students from the graduating class at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine called for replacing Carson as their commencement speaker, citing his extremist rhetoric and criticism of, all things, evolutionary biology. he said . "I would say that this is their day. And the last thing I would want to do is rain on their parade."Postscript : Incidentally, Carson also believes marriage equality could destroy America like the " fall of the Roman Empire ." I'm sure this guy is an accomplished medical professional, but a historian he isn't it -- unless Carson knows something scholars don't about fifth-century German tribes, it wasn't married gay people that caused the sack of Rome.
