Ben Carson’s Troubling Record on Homosexuality

Dr. Ben Carson (Photo credit: Michael Vadon)

I received some disturbing information today about Dr. Ben Carson’s support for the homosexual agenda in my email today.

When I initially glanced at this shortly after I received it on my phone in an email, I didn’t see the links to more information, and decided at the time that I’d need to know more before I held this against Carson.

When I got a closer look at the email on my desktop, I saw there were links and looked them up.  What I saw caused me to cool considerably toward Carson.

From Yahoo News:

But some leaders in the social conservative movement that has backed Carson say his more than 15-year record on the boards of retailer Costco Wholesale and food manufacturer Kellogg could pose a challenge for him as he seeks the nomination.

Carson supported various initiatives at both companies, such as barring discrimination based on gender identity, providing health insurance for employees’ domestic partners, and offering more diversity training. Because of such changes the companies now are ranked as some of the best in the United States by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender advocates.

“I think he has to explain this,” said Tony Perkins, president of the Christian conservative lobbying group Family Research Council. “As he is pursuing the presidency, what he has to make clear is that the board positions should not be reflective of his public policy.”

Perkins and other conservative leaders say they fear that some of the changes at American corporations could be used to punish employees with unpopular political views. They worry, for instance, that workers who do not support same-sex marriage could be found in violation of anti-discrimination policies.

Very few people in America would hold anything significant against a homosexual in the workplace who was doing their job and not flaunting their immoral sexual behavior publicly.  But that’s not really what’s at issue here. “Anti-discrimination policies” sound innocuous on the surface, but as we are seeing around the country, they can and are used to brutally oppress and punish Christians who refuse to go along with the Left’s agenda to corrupt marriage, family and sexual normality.  So-called “anti-discrimination” postures are often used these days to discriminate against anyone who disagrees with the liberal line, and force them from where ever Leftists want to see them removed.

And when it comes to providing health benefits for homosexual partners of employees, this is nothing short of subsidizing an immoral and unhealthy sexual practice, and attempting to normalize habitual sodomy. Further, subsidizing this dangerous lifestyle adds to the premiums of others in the plan because of the increased health care costs common among homosexuals–and forces others to help pay for that dangerous lifestyle.

“Diversity training” is nothing more than pro-homosexual indoctrination and harassment. “Diversity training” is a method used by the Left to browbeat anyone who knows right from wrong into conforming to save their job…or losing their job for maintaining that what is right is right. Forced “diversity”, especially when it involves an immoral behavior, is often at the expense of others. On the hypocritical Left, remember that “diversity” means “everyone agrees with us, or you’ll regret it.”

This is where the rubber meets the road.  America doesn’t have time to play around with leaders who are anything less than 100% totally committed to returning this nation to sanity–moral, fiscal, and otherwise.

Ben Carson impressed a lot of people, myself included, a few years ago when he spoke candidly about the moral bankruptcy of the Obama Administration at the National Prayer Breakfast. Those things needed to be said.  As George Orwell pointed out, “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

Saying the right thing is important. But doing the right thing, especially when you’re in those critical decision-making positions, is infinitely more important than merely saying the right thing.

After all, how many “Republicans” in recent years have SAID the right thing on the campaign trial…only to DO the wrong thing once they are elected, failing America yet again?

A leader joining in, acquiescing to, or surrendering on things like “anti-discrimination” policies, policies that attempt to normalize dangerous and immoral behaviors, and “diversity training” is nothing short of failing both those subordinate to them and society as a whole.  When it comes to the vicious, relentless assault of the Left on the moral fiber of this nation, everyone must do all they can to hold the line. For a leader to fail to hold the line is simply unacceptable.

I would be interested in knowing more specific details about Carson’s precise involvement in these matters, but it doesn’t look good.

Carson has been my third choice after the man with the best record of reliable conservatism (Senator Ted Cruz) and the man whose record is close on Cruz’s heel (Bobby Jindal)–second among those with a likely shot at the nomination–and though the alternative pickings for #3 or #2 get pretty slim after Carson, this information has caused me to rethink his ranking in my list of presidential choices.

I was already cautious about Carson because of his political and leadership inexperience, and I became more so when I learned of his ill-informed comments on the right to keep and bear arms and amnesty for illegal aliens (sorry, not buying the BS that “pathway to citizenship” is anything other than the amnesty that it is). Now I am even more cool.

It is extremely important that every American know everything they can about any candidate they are considering for our nation’s highest office. Hoping for the best, feeling good, and the like are not sufficient, especially when our nation is in critical condition.  Nothing less than the best will do.

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Bob Ellis has been the owner of media company Dakota Voice, LLC since 2005. He is a 10-year U.S. Air Force veteran, a political reporter and commentator for the past decade, and has been involved in numerous election and public policy campaigns for over 20 years. He was a founding member and board member of the Tea Party groups Citizens for Liberty and the South Dakota Tea Party Alliance. He lives in Rapid City, South Dakota with his wife and two children.

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