Republican presidential candidate Ben
Carson claimed in November that activists will “try to ruin” the
lives of Christians over “the gay marriage issue.”
Carson made his remarks during an
appearance on Kingdom Connection with Jentezen Franklin.
He claimed that LGBT rights activists
use “hate speech ridicule” to silence opponents.
“The way it works now is they target
you and they have all kind of hate speech ridicule, if there’s a
way they can bring action against you they will do that, try to ruin
your life,” Carson
said. “Look at all the people who because of their religious
convictions and their belief in what the Bible says have lost their
livelihood and they're put in jeopardy over the gay marriage issue,
when in fact this is supposed to be a country where you live and let
live.”
“I personally don't have any problem
with any two people, regardless of what their feelings are, of living
together, of getting a lawyer to create some documents so they can
share property and have hospital visitation rights, but to change the
definition of marriage. The problem is once you do that for one
group, why wouldn't you have to do that for the next group?”
“If evangelical Christians don't
stand up,” he warned, “it's going to be too late.”