Republican presidential candidate and former neurosurgeon Ben Carson warned that if the definition of marriage were changed to include gay couples, it would also have to be changed to incorporate other types of unions.
But Carson, in an interview with CBNC’s John Harwood, wouldn’t elaborate on what other “groups” would be allowed to marry.
Carson started out saying if you “change the definition of marriage for one group, what do you say to the next group?”
“What is the next group?” Harwood interjected.
“Do you say, ‘well we changed it for this group but that’s it, we’re not changing it for anybody else?” Carson asked. “Does that seem fair?”
“Well, but what other groups are there?” Harwood asked.
“There are more groups, I guarantee,” Carson said. “I think you know there are more groups. Everybody knows there are more groups.”
“Honest to God, I don’t know what you’re talking about,” Harwood said.
“Other variations on traditional marriage. You don’t think there’s any others?” Carson asked.
“You mean like bigamy or something?” Harwood asked.
“That’s a possibility, that’s a possibility,” Carson said. “Why would you stop with one group being able to change it and then say to the next group ‘you can’t change it’?”
Harwood said he wasn’t “advocating” one way or another there.
“I’m just asking a question,” Carson said.
As TPM previously noted, Carson said in an interview with Newsmax that if the Supreme Court were to rule in favor of same-sex marriage, the President of the United States still wouldn’t have carry out that ruling.
Watch the exchange below:
Teatroll Rosetta Stone: “If you take the gays away from us, we’ll just find someone else to abuse, oppress and discriminate against.”
Ohhhh scary. When you see a sizable number of people are advocated for something, it deserves a look. If nobody is even talking about it–save for the anti marriage equality crowd–why even give it a moment’s thought?
This man has serious issues, and they revolve around his completely unhinged thought process. I realize he’s book-smart … but other than that, he makes Bachmann sound like Eleanor Roosevelt.
Just think, maybe even slaves will want to marry. Ben, how would you feel about giving African Americans that opportunity? Oh wait, never mind.
Carson was dumb-struck at being asked the question about what other groups he had in mind.
Unfortunately the interviewer provided him with an escape hatch to which he readily agreed by suggesting bigamy. It would have been far more illuminating had he let the candidate answer the question, but good on him for asking it.