Ben Carson: Gay Couples ‘Not That Smart’ Because Loving Christian Bakers Might Poison Wedding Cakes

[KamaAina]

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/01/26/ben-carson-gay-couples-not-that-smart-because-loving-christian-bakers-might-poison-wedding-cakes-video/

Ben Carson, who functions largely as the GOP’s Uncle Ruckus, is once again speaking out in favor of wanton discrimination. At Steve King’s gathering of the most deluded “minds” in politics, the Iowa Freedom Summit, Carson held a short press conference after his 20-minute deluded rant.

For most of the seven minutes, Carson railed against LGBT individuals’ demand for equal rights. Carson told members of the media that “a few judges” have overthrown the will of the people in 32 states where it was decided “that marriage is between a man and a woman.”...

“If two adults want to be together,” Carson said, “I’m not going to stop them from being together.” Carson suggested that equal marriage rights are not necessary because two people can take the very expensive route of setting up a “legal contract” so they can “share property and have visitation rights” or otherwise experience some benefits of marriage.

Carson says he does have a problem with good, pure, sweet, innocent Christian bakers being forced to make cakes for LGBT couples. In fact, those loving Christians might get so mad that they poison the cake, according to a man who wants to be President:

Well, someone's not that smart, and I don't think it's the gay couples.

[avebury]

1. It appears that he is advocating

for the commission of a criminal act. Now who is the idiot here?

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

2. I have said for a long time that rightwing christians hate gay PEOPLE and want them to die

[lunasun]

9. Sad but I think they believe doing it or not stopping it would be a blessing for them

[shenmue]

3. "Nice cake you got there"

"Be a shame if something were to happen to it..."

What a creep.

[davidpdx]

48. My thought is if you say something like that outloud, you probably want it to happen

Which in this case is sick.

[TNNurse]

89. or maybe he is admitting that is what he would do

Does not speak well for his idea of a Christian.

[davidpdx]

90. Very well could be

Good point

[Trillo]

55. I agree with you, but maybe he's outing himself

How is it any different from police who want an app censored because it may lead to the killing of cops?

I suppose the cops are interested in self preservation, while suggesting that folks may use the app to kill cops. Carson is implanting the suggestion that baker's poison gay couple's cakes. So it would be more similar if Ben Carson is gay. Maybe he's more afraid and expressing self-preservational fear than advocating others commit a crime?

Is Ben Carson outing himself?

[olddots]

4. he gets to drive the clown car

[IdiotsforPalin]

67. That's about as Presidential

as Palin holding up an FU sign to Michael Moore.......well played clowns

[KT2000]

5. Seriously - what happened to him?

He really sounds like he has mental issues. I guess it is good he is no longer operating on children because his hatred is expanding daily. Would a Christian surgeon "make a mistake" while operating on a child he knew to be gay because he was "forced" to treat him/her?

[Orsino]

54. Money can make weak minds say just about anything.

Weak characters are even more pliable.

[Blue Owl]

6. The Ben Carson school of projecting

Say Ben, where'd you come up with that little idea?

[lunasun]

7. Does he only patronize Black owned establishments?? For fear of racist harm?

Probably doesn't believe in racism I don't know much about him except everywhere I go I see old white people only reading his book. Enough people that I can guess he is rich

Being mad at someone is a good reason for attempted murder!

[NickB79]

8. WWJP: Who Would Jesus Poison?

[BlueStater]

10. Who the fuck is this guy, anyway?

I know he's some sort of doctor but, seriously, where did he come from and what exactly is so notable about him that the press covers all the stupid shit coming out of his mouth?

[Bluenorthwest]

14. He was a Republian Presidential candidate in 2012 and will be again....

nt

[lunasun]

29. Huh ? All Black People look alike to you? you are thinking of Herman Cain

[BlueJazz]

39. No...No...That was Bill Cosby. Good grief!

[lunasun]

40. That was Morgan Freeman not Samuel L Jackson

Samuel L. Jackson was the one mistaken for Lawrence Fishburne

http://time.com/3340330/morgan-freeman-samuel-l-jackson-television-entertainment/

[BlueJazz]

41. Informative and funny link. Thanks1

[treestar]

51. I think Carson is running now, IIRR

He yapped about running for POTUS, and so did some right wingers.

[lunasun]

68. Yeah he has a book out and joined the Repuke party officially on the eve of 2014 elections

Guess he knows a gravy train when he sees one. Become a candidate sell books earn some PAC coin too

He is not going anywhere withem other than in the clown car that will push his party to Bush he dislikes insurance co.s per Wiki and is a yes on affirmative action

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Carson

[DebJ]

56. A former neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins who apparently did some work on himself somewhere.

As in, a partial lobotomy. But he removed his soul instead.

He's a completely looney, right wing butt brain.

i'm sure he will have our jaws dropping during the debates.

[DebJ]

57. Here's a link to his positions on issues.

http://www.ontheissues.org/Ben_Carson.htm#Welfare_+_Poverty


Don't read this if you just ate lunch.

[DeSwiss]

80. Here's who the fuck he is.

- Great surgeon. But that's where it ends. He should operate and STFU......

[Bluenorthwest]

11. I hate to be this way, but I am sick to death of writers who present anti gay hate mongers as being

'Uncle Ruckus' or 'that crazy Uncle Pat' as Rachel Maddow used to call racist bigot Pat Buchanan when he was her constant guest.
Someone who spoke like that about another minority group would not get that 'aw shucks we love him in spite of his old fashioned ways' shit. Not ever. Yet for the raging anti gay crusaders, there are excuses and modifiers and nicknames.....

[Panich52]

20. You mean like Huckabee's 'Uncle Sugar' f/women?

[Bluenorthwest]

26. Nope. That was a sexist, racist bit of verbiage from a right winger, I'm talking about liberals who

soften their verbiage about hate mongering anti gay bigots by using charming nicknames for them. Uncle Ruckus is a comic character, from the funny papers. Carson is a politically active hate monger. Not a comic book funny guy.

[NYC Liberal]

75. Just look at the support Pope Francis gets around here.

"Yeah yeah, he's said nasty, horrific things about gays, and he's a misogynist... but HE KISSED A BABY...and he drives an OLD CAR *swoon*"

[dissentient]

12. Oh please, if a christian business really finds it offensive to make cakes for gay couples, its not

like there isn't a simple solution for them, and it doesn't involve anything criminal. Just do a really crappy job on their cakes! Then word of mouth will ensure they lose that portion of their business, if they really don't want that business in the first place (which seems nonsensical to turn down business, but whatever)

[BlancheSplanchnik]

88. perhaps, but not nearly as enjoyable.

christopukes love the christian virtue of hate. Cleaning the world for jeeezus, one mass homicide at a time? What a hard-on.

[City Lights]

13. Looney toonz.

[SummerSnow]

15. this guy is violent

[napkinz]

16. ...

[napkinz]

17. ...

[napkinz]

18. Ben Carson's Hypocrisy

[Ruby the Liberal]

19. I hear a dog whistle...

Let the primaries begin!

[Dawson Leery]

21. How was Ben Carson ever granted a medical degree?

[COLGATE4]

23. The saddest part is that he is obviously a very

intelligent man. As a doctor he excelled in the highly specialized (and very chellenging) field of pediatric neurological surgery, being the first doctor in the U.S,. to separate twins conjoined at the head. All that intelligence, however seems to be compartmentalized and he suffers from an ill which seems to affect many physicians who believe themselves to be as superior in all areas as they are in medicine. Regarding politics he seems to bear a close resemblance to Herman Cain, being the new Uncle Ruckus for the Republicans longing to have a black man spouting their hateful rhetoric.

[hifiguy]

25. Clarence Thomas has had the Uncle Ruckus role

sewn up for more than twenty years.

[dhol82]

30. Sadly, his major problem

is that he is a devout Seventh Day Adventist. Hence his belief that the earth is only 6000 years old, that the Rapture is real and coming, and that Barney Rubble rode to work on a dinosaur.

He is obviously a brilliant surgeon. From what I have read he did wonderful things for kids. It's just a shame that all that intelligence was subsumed by a religious belief that went to strange places.

No offense to anybody here who is an Adventist - just not a believer.

[stevenleser]

64. Minor but important point. He WAS a very intelligent man.

I have no doubt that he attained a high degree of knowledge and proficiency as a surgeon. I think as of the time he retired and probably now, he still retains the knowledge of how to perform in that profession.

But I also believe his mind ceased to be able to take in and evaluate new information of any kind of sophistication at least 10 years ago. I doubt he would be able to complete a graduate program of any kind at this point.

[randome]

22. Dr. Ben Carson, official cake-tester at all gay weddings from now on.

Didn't he lose his medical license recently? Now he can have a healthy niche business to fill the void.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]The truth doesn’t always set you free.
Sometimes it builds a bigger cage around the one you’re already in.[/center][/font][hr]

[hifiguy]

24. He's entering the same delusionary territory as

Princess Sparklemoose.

[appalachiablue]

27. The brain surgeon sounds like his mind is going. That or someone is paying him a lot of $.

I know Mitt 'is that store bought?' Romney must have food tasters but didn't think Carson was in that league.

[tanyev]

28. Yeah...'cause that's totally how Jesus rolled.

[shraby]

31. They wouldn't be "good Christians" if they poisoned the cake, now would they?

[LynneSin]

43. Perhaps those good 'Christians' have faulty bibles that are missing Exodus 20:13

Which btw is part of the only old testament laws that Jesus actually mentioned we should obey. Ironically Jesus never said anything about Leviticus 20:13

[pansypoo53219]

32. 'loving' xtian.

[Cha]

33. "Well, someone's not that smart, and I don't think it's the gay couples" Just what I was going to

say.. but just how damn dumb is he?

[Rhinodawg]

34. Psychotic f**cker.

[sendero]

35. You can see why...

... this guy believes there is a pie shop in the sky, he's a fucking moron.

[iandhr]

36. This sound like it could be the The Onion

[UTUSN]

37. R#8 & K

[Brigid]

38. Carson needs to have some brain scans done.

I'm just sayin'.

[KamaAina]

42. With what?

An electron microscope?

[ChosenUnWisely]

44. Ben just says what the republican base cannot say in public same with All the GOP

clowns, that is why they are so popular with the base.

Don't be surprised to see on the news soon that some 'christian' baker or caterer poisons the food of a gay wedding and the base will approve and be so proud of that person too.

Hate is what motivates the GOP and their supporters.

[Herself]

45. the answer to this is simple.

LGBT people get the cakes made, but that doesn't make them stupid enough to eat them.

Didn't you see the movie "the help"

C'mon folks, LGBT didnt' get this far because of lack of intelligence.

[Skittles]

46. it always amazes me

how a member of a historically oppressed group can so easily oppress others

seems like he is OK with gay folk getting on the bus as long as they stay in the back

[NuclearDem]

47. Just like Jesus would have done.

[Bossy Monkey]

49. Brain surgeon, heal thyself! n/t

[treestar]

50. I would call Ben Carson the one not so smart

What an insane idea.

Good grief.

Gay couples may be able to find a baker who is not a fundie nut, Ben, you idiot.

[Iliyah]

52. Once again, these gawd fearing Christians advocate killings, murders, etc.

[Fred Sanders]

53. If you realize they are fascists just borrowing the bad parts of Christianity it makes sense.

[FiveGoodMen]

58. I think this complete asshole is right at the top of the list now

It pains me to know that he's still breathing.

[TheSarcastinator]

59. Ben Carson: Stochastic Terrorist

He wants people to do this. It is very clear to me that this incitement to murder.

[amuse bouche]

60. "Loving Christian - Poison"

That about sums up religion for me. Thanks Ben

[Tsiyu]

61. And this should make me want to be a Christian, why?

Growing up, never heard the commandment to poison people with whom I disagree.

If Christians are out there poisoning people, then Christianity is a violent, brutal faith and no decent, rational person should want any part of it.

7th day adventists around here are fond of the rapture. They've been ready for years. Any minute now....

They are decent, helpful neighbors, keep their places tidy, and they always adopt an ever-so-slight condescension as their primary expression and affect. They are better than you are. By a long shot.

But I noticed something that troubled me. Loving neighbors and residents of Planet Earth plant flowers for their neighbors and for the bees and the butterflies.

Self-preserving people couldn't care less about pollinators or anyone's view. They hide in the woods and make sure they have smooth driveways and that nature is blown to smithereens if it encroaches on their bunkers.

The draw of their form of Christianity are the constant affirmations that they are superior people, that they are wiser than everyone else, and that they are gonna show us we were wrong any day now, by golly.

They are very devoted and invested in being "right." So "right," they will poison you for your own good. Just like they poison their children's minds by insisting on telling them that they have no future, that the rapture is imminent and is far more important to consider than planning a good life. I cant imagine being told as a child that the world is about to come to an end.



Having said that: Believe what you wish. Just don't come around asking me to buy it. If you don't worry about the suffering of people where you live right here, right now; and you don't care about bees or birds, you are just not that wise. And I doubt even your god is impressed.

[Third Doctor]

62. What the hell?

A true Christian wouldn't think to poison anyone. This guy is a clown.

[ProfessorGAC]

63. I Think This Surgeon Inhaled Too Much Anesthetic

There are several circuit paths to nowhere in this guy's head.

[mstinamotorcity2]

65. he doesn't speak for

anyone but himself. I wonder does he go to bakeries???

[KamaAina]

66. Onward Christian Bakers!

[0rganism]

69. Ben Carson could never get the GOP nomination

on the other hand, he messes with the racist republicans by inserting into their thoughts of racial purity and colored parasitism a black man who's a successful wackadoo conservative. the only way he could be better therapy for them is if he were a female candidate.

let the healing begin.

[americannightmare]

70. With regard to his intelligence...

perhaps a distinction needs to be made between the ability to acquire very specific knowledge and the ability to think about anything else! This affliction is rampant in religious communities. Carson is an exception only in that he acquired very specific knowledge beyond the bible or believing in trickle-down economics or the ideology in conservatism. It's the difference between thinking and believing. Unfortunately, most Americans believe in believing in things (no alternative to capitalism, positive psychology, etc.) which makes it easy for someone like Carson to sell his book and spread his pernicious gospel.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

71. He knows his audience well

I give him that.

[snowjob]

72. Wow

Just wow. This guy is way out there. Please saw off the branch.

[blkmusclmachine]

73. Creepy

[Initech]

74. This just in: Jesus has quit!

[riversedge]

76. Umm....Ben Carson is not that smart--for saying such a stupid thing.

[workinclasszero]

77. What a sick f**k this jackass truly is!

In fact, those loving Christians might get so mad that they poison the cake..

Sure cause "loving Christians" go around poisoning anyone they don't agree with right Carson?

I think the bottom of the republican barrel has been reached with this batshit insane would be killer!

And that's sayin a lot! Throw this creep into the trunk of the republican clown car and lock the lid teabaggers!

[onecaliberal]

78. What is he on? He's got to be on something.

Surely he didn't just suggest some baker would poison cake because the people they baked it for are gay. Doesn't he just think they'd refuse to bake it in the first place rather than risk spending their life in prison for poisoning people.

[KamaAina]

84. Well, he does have his own prescription pad

Prescription drug abuse is far from unknown among doctors for this reason.

[Rex]

79. I'm not that smart, but even I can see he is recommending the mass murder of LGBT people.

If only we lived in a country where there were lays against such rhetoric.

[KamaAina]

85. I believe we do.

It's called "incitement to commit a felony".

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

81. Loving Christian = murderer?

[DallasNE]

82. That Gives New Meaning To "Loving"

At least I have never associated poisoning people to being "loving".

[mythology]

83. I'm not sure he's entirely wrong

Some of those same people who hate same sex marriage also hate abortion enough to kill abortion providers. And the anti-same sex marriage people are likely to become more desperate as they lose on the issue.

Granted that's not an argument against same sex marriage or against the intelligence of the same sex couple as (unfortunately) often you can't tell who's a blithering idiot just by looking at them. Fortunately many of those blithering idiots prove it when they speak, for example, Ben Carson.

[OldRedneck]

86. I think I have figured out what Carson is up to.

He saw how far Sarah Palin went by saying really, really stupid shit and he's decided to jump on the gravy train.

[SunSeeker]

87. Who the fuck would let this psycho operate on their brain?!

[nightscanner59]

91. Wow. Just wow.

Frankly, I wouldn't mind if bigoted bakers were required to post "straight only" signs. Let them be up-front offensive rather than embarrass someone who comes to ask for a product to be turned away in shame.
Better yet to just look for the rainbow flag on the door.
Now the casual way this creep comes across with this notion tells me he's likely to have dozens more zingers like this to appeal only to the most radical of his base. That makes me relax a bit, even in the face of the Kock's poised to spend a billion on misleading ads in '16.

[fbc]

92. There is something seriously wrong with this guy if that's the way he thinks.

[Ace Rothstein]

93. Holy shit, he's gone off the deep end.

[Paladin]

94. Why would anybody entrust their brains (literally) to someone this delusional?

Honestly, think about somebody with this many open and obvious psychological problems, about to plunge a scalpel into your gray matter. No thank you.

[valerief]

95. Cause nothings says Christian Love like cyanide in your food. nt