Ben Carson Confronted at Town Hall: 'Do You Think I Chose to Be Gay?'

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  1. RP12

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    What made her more real then anyone else?
     
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    who is saying pedophiles should legally be able to have sex with children because they are born that way? how is child rape in any way comparable to consenting adults?
     
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    The anti-gays have always shown their inability to distinguish between adults and children. I find that alarming.
     
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    She wasn't a media talking head, or just someone in a pre-selected crowd. She confronted him, and he couldn't answer her. Typical of people like that when someone confronts them face to face.
     
  5. RP12

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    I would say being a local activist would put you beyond being just a random person.
     
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    It seems we are at the point that species continuation requires a lower birth rate. We know that nature regulates populations. You would think people would be happy that more gays exist.
     
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    Exactly. But some people are just too obtuse to even consider there might be a reason for such things. They just want someone to hate, that's all.
     
  8. RP12

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    You seem to say its not a "right" its more a kin of a social experiment to lower population?
     
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    We have been around forever. I'd say we're not an "experiment".
     
  10. Penrod

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    I dont see how anyone can take any other position on this. Some think they are gay just because as teens they tried it and liked it and they are now told its perfectly acceptable . Heck sex feels good.

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    Well they also contribute to a higher death rate and lower the average age of living for men.
     
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    Only someone as leftwing as yourself would think that amounts to an argument. Bottom line it is statistically proven that being gay is not genetic. For example the odds that someone is gay and was sexually abused as a child is higher than the population being gay. The odds that someone is gay and has an older brother is higher than the general population being gay. This is called statistical dependency. If the probability of X is different than the probability of X given Y then they two are dependent. These dependent relationships falsify the born gay argument. It might be an unconscious conditioning but it is still environmental conditioning. Now you wont like that is but that is only hypocrisy because the same type of statistical analysis was what proved the relationship between smoking and cancer and that tabacoo companies were artificially raising he nicotine content in their cigarettes.
     
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    Your reply to the previous poster would suggest you dont truly believe that. I would say the concept of Mother Nature.. ( sorry gender non-specific nature i dont want to offend) is having people born gay to lower population or to control is would be a sign of mental illness. Perhaps in limited way the OP is correct.
     
  13. Think for myself

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    What?




    Really? Statistically proven? By all means link the world to this proof.


    None of that makes any sense. None of it.
     
  14. Windigo

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    That is because you have your fingers in your ears going la la la or you simply aren't educated enough to understand basic statistical relationships.

    You have

    prob X

    prob X given Y

    if prob X ≠ prob X given Y

    then

    X and Y are dependent.

    If being gay was genetic then there wouldn't be such dependent relationships.

    Now members of the gay lobby who are smarter than you recognize this statistical problem so they have come up with some elaborate and scary excuses. They say that abused childer were actually always gay and the reason for the statistical anomaly is that the gay children unconsciously seduced their rapists.
     
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    Is this the citation that supports your claim that being gay has been statistically proven to not be genetic?
     
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    Much of which is from suicide which has more with the (*)(*)(*)(*)ty way anti-gay bigots treat them.
     
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    Do you deny that someone is more likely to be gay if they were molested as a child?
     
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    More likely to be gay? Or more likely to engage in similar behavior? Pedophilia between an adult and child of the same sex is not homosexuality. Two entirely different things.

    Have you that link that supports your claim?
     
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    You are avoiding the question is someone more likely to be gay if they were molested as a child yes or no?
     
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    Your question makes no sense. It appears to call two different things, pedophilia and homosexuality, synonymous when they are not.
     
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    It should be a long conversation but for Ben it is a short one. We already know what Ben really thinks. This is a guy that has stated publicly that the theory of Evolution is a result of Satan's influence.

    Obviously then ... anyone who is gay is under the influence of Satan.
     
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    Is someone more likely to be gay if they were molested as a child yes or no? Quit avoiding the question.
     
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    Another drama queen. Nobody cares if you're a gay. Your gay liberal status does not make you better than anyone else.
     
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    Then stop comparing it to "choice" or "genetics"....

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    This I agree with. Society should decide not the courts.
     
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    Again, your question is illogical.
     

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