{"id":418,"date":"2013-03-30T00:15:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-30T00:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/30\/dr-carson-speaks-uh-inelegantly"},"modified":"2013-03-30T00:15:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-30T00:15:00","slug":"dr-carson-speaks-uh-inelegantly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=418","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Carson speaks, uh, inelegantly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Ben Carson is a brilliant neurosurgeon and medical professor. He\u2019s also becoming a rising political star. But first, doc, you need to learn how to speak with nuance and precision.<\/p>\n

He recently spoke with conservative commentator Sean Hannity about gay marriage. Dr. Carson opposes it, he says, for Biblical reasons.<\/p>\n

Then he began to ramble a bit about gay marriage and, while stringing together a list of collective associations, said that marriage is a “a well-established, fundamental pillar of society and no group, be they gays, be they NAMBLA, be they people who believe in bestiality \u2014 it doesn’t matter what they are, they don’t get to change the definition.”<\/p>\n

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Critics jumped all over the good doctor, saying he was \u201cequating\u201d gay individuals with those who practice bestiality. He said his comments were \u201ctaken out of context.\u201d I don\u2019t know about the \u201ccontext\u201d argument, Dr. Carson. Those comments seem pretty self-evident to me.<\/p>\n

But whether they reflect the view his critics contend they do or not, Carson could have been a bit more, shall we say, discreet<\/em> in his comparisons. He could have stopped at \u201cbe they gays,\u201d and called it good.<\/p>\n

But he didn\u2019t. He talked a little too freely with his pal Hannity.<\/p>\n

Carson is being talked about now as a possible Republican presidential candidate in 2016. He has said he will consider it in due course, once he quits his medical practice, which he\u2019s already said he\u2019ll do.<\/p>\n

A word of caution, doctor: This political world into which you may enter is full of traps, which politicians are known to spring all by themselves with their own careless utterances.<\/p>\n\n

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Ben Carson is a brilliant neurosurgeon and medical professor. He\u2019s also becoming a rising political star. But first, doc, you need to learn how to speak with nuance and precision. He recently spoke with conservative commentator Sean Hannity about gay marriage. Dr. Carson opposes it, he says, for Biblical reasons. Then he began to ramble … Continue reading Dr. Carson speaks, uh, inelegantly<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}