{"id":8468,"date":"2015-03-05T14:09:27","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T14:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8468"},"modified":"2015-03-05T14:09:27","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T14:09:27","slug":"good-doctor-snaps-out-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8468","title":{"rendered":"Good doctor snaps out of it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>No one ever should question Ben Carson&#8217;s smarts as a neurosurgeon.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s one of the best ever, in the world. But the good doctor stepped in it big time during a CNN interview and has actually apologized for some remarks he made about homosexuality and how he thought people &#8220;become&#8221; gay.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/234695-carson-apologizes-for-comments-on-sexuality<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Carson told CNN&#8217;s Chris Cuomo that one needs to look at the prison population to understand that homosexuality is a lifestyle choice. He said prisoners have begun their sentences as straight but come out as gay.<\/p>\n<p>Sexual <em>orientation?<\/em> The doctor called it a &#8220;choice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s taken it back. Carson, a possible 2016 Republican presidential candidate, still doesn&#8217;t believe marriage equality, preferring to support civil unions for gay couples. But he&#8217;s said he&#8217;s sorry for the offense he caused by using the prisoners-choose-to-be-gay example.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not pretend to know how every individual came to their sexual orientation,\u201d he said on Facebook. \u201cI regret that my words to express that concept were hurtful and divisive. For that I apologize unreservedly to all that were offended.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Apology accepted, Dr. Carson. Now, let&#8217;s stick to the issues that we can control. Sexual orientation isn&#8217;t one of them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one ever should question Ben Carson&#8217;s smarts as a neurosurgeon. He&#8217;s one of the best ever, in the world. But the good doctor stepped in it big time during a CNN interview and has actually apologized for some remarks he made about homosexuality and how he thought people &#8220;become&#8221; gay. http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/234695-carson-apologizes-for-comments-on-sexuality Dr. Carson told &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8468\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Good doctor snaps out of it<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[13,14],"tags":[588,966,1043,2161,4238],"class_list":["post-8468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-ben-carson","tag-chris-cuomo","tag-cnn","tag-homosexuality","tag-sexual-orientation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8468","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=8468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}