Senate confirms Trump official Ben Carson, who thinks gay marriage is a ‘Marxist plot’
The Senate has confirmed Trump’s Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson- who believes gay marriage is a Marxist plot.
Former Fox News pundit Dr Carson was picked to serve as the President’s HUD Secretary despite having no experience in the field at all.
Dr Carson is known for his endless font of surreal views about homosexuality – comparing gay people to paedophiles and insisting that prisons ‘prove’ being gay is a choice.
During his confirmation hearing he doubled down on his past comments, attacking “extra rights” or gay people.
Carson, who opposes equal marriage and anti-discrimination protections because gay people are “abnormal”, was approved by a vote of 58-41 today.
Six Democrats voted for Carson: Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Joe Donnelly (D-IN) Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) Joe Manchin (D-WV) Jon Tester (D-MT) and Mark Warner (D-VA).
The Republican previously insisted that same-sex marriage is a Marxist plot from the New World Order, claiming in a speech to a listed anti-LGBT hate group that gay weddings are part of a plan “to destroy unity [and] bring America down.”
Carson previously claimed that gay people were responsible for the fall of the Roman Empire, warned that “there will be mass killings once again” over same-sex marriage, and insisted that gay weddings are like car seats for conjoined twins.
He has also claimed equal marriage is a Marxist plot created by the ‘New World Order’.
Speaking at an event for the anti-LGBT National Organisation for Marriage, he claimed “[America’s] strength lies in our unity. And there are so many forces that are there to try to destroy that unity —the only way to bring America down.
“If you look in a lot of writings of the Neo-Marxists when they talk about the New World Order, they say there’s only one stick in the mud: how do you get them out of the way and how do you change them?
“They said there were two things: their Judeo-Christian faith, and their strong families. Those were the things that had to be attacked, and those things have been systematically attacked.
“There’s a book called the Naked Communist… it lays out the whole agenda of how to attack the family and the Judeo-Christian values, to weaken the structure of America.
“This stuff is not secret, you can read about it. You can see all the things that are happening in America today.”
He continued later: “When we talk about liberty and justice for all, doesn’t that mean that people can be left alone, that no-one else gets to change definitions on them and change life for them?”
“They have no right to say to me that I must change the way I think in order to accommodate what they believe.
“That’s where the injustice comes from, and we have to understand that.”
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