Christian conservative and former
presidential candidate Ben Carson has called changing gender the
“height of absurdity.”
Carson endorsed Donald Trump's
presidential ambitions on Tuesday, telling Republican National
Convention (RNC) attendees in Cleveland that America “may never
recover” from a Hillary Clinton administration and asking, “Are
we willing to elect as president someone who has as their role model
somebody who acknowledges Lucifer?” Carson was talking about
community organizer Saul Alinsky, whom Carson said had dedicated his
book Rules for Radicals to Lucifer. Alinsky dedicated his
book to his wife Irene, but in the book he describes Lucifer as the
“first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment
and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom.”
Speaking at the Florida delegation
breakfast in a Cleveland suburb, Carson, a vocal opponent of LGBT
rights, compared changing gender to changing ethnicity.
“I gotta tell you, for thousands of
years mankind has known what a man is and what a woman is. And now
all of the sudden we don't know anymore,” Carson said to applause.
“Is that the height of absurdity?”
“Because today you feel like a woman,
even though everything about you genetically says that you're a man,
or vice versa.”
“Wouldn't that be the same as if you
woke up tomorrow morning after seeing a movie about Afghanistan or
reading some books and you say, 'You know what, I'm Afghanistan. I
know I don't look that way, my ancestors came from Sweden, or
something, I don't know, but I really am. And if you say I'm not,
you're a racist.' This is how absurd we have become.”