There are some from our camp who think the same!

I'm serious - he's one that disgusts me. I have nothing sage or wise to offer other than that.

And yeah -he's 'stepping and fetching' to fit in with the wrong crowd.

Of course, he is speaking to a certain audience who will lap it up. I always find it interesting how many people are under the illusion that educated people can't be bigots, as if education or intelligence some how negates the ability to be a bigot. One only has to look to history to see how untrue that speculation really is.

of all gay people should not benefit from the civil rights struggle, because that struggle was only for the STRAIGHT African-Americans.

Also: how many of the 92% straight African-Americans and mixed-race Americans would be allies of the GLBTQ community? Let's just callously disregard their opinions too, shall we Benny? And all those black churches' stallward defense of gay marriage for scriptural, ritual, and personal reasons - pfooey, that doesn't exist in your word, eh Benny?

After all, when civil unions were introduced, there was NOTHING about that situation that recalled the days of the white-only fountains. Isn't that right, Benny?

It's not as if there has been a time when people like you refused to drink from the same water as a gay person because "you don't know where their hands have been / also AIDS!".

Oh Benny, where would we be without you?

Yes, all the above is sarcasm. You probably guessed that already.

Who got his - and now it's 'screw you - go get yours'.

[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=teal]He rather play the oppression olympics where everyone loses rather than see reality.[/font]

In Ben Carson's world homosexuals have never been lynched or murdered for no other reason than their sexual orientation. In his world, there were never PSAs that taught school children to be afraid of the "homosexual male." In his world, the military never had a rule prohibiting homosexuals from serving their country. Carson's world does not have homosexuals who have spent their entire adult lives with someone only to be denied access to them by the hospital as their partner is dying. As a black man, I would expect him to recognize the overlap between a rock thrown at someone's head for no other reason than what the thrower witnessed... a black man walking down the street with a white woman or in my case, walking down the street holding my boyfriends hand.