While Bernie Sanders (D) is proposing legal weed for all, Ben Carson (R) wants separate bathrooms for transgenders.
Carson made the suggestion on Thursday, during an interview on Fusion, where he was asked about Houston voters’ rejection of a law banning LGBT discrimination. “How about we have a transgender bathroom?” Carson said. “It’s not fair for them to make everybody else uncomfortable.” Carson goes on to say, “It’s one of the things that I don’t particularly like about the [LGBT] movement. I think everybody has equal rights, but I’m not sure that anybody should have extra rights—extra rights when it comes to redefining everything for everybody else and imposing your view on everybody else.”
In regards to the Houston Prop #1, voters rejected the equal rights measure that focused on which restrooms transgender people used. The Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO) wanted to ban discrimination against not only the LGBT community (which Prop 1 was mainly focused on) but also discrimination based on sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, familial status, marital status, military status, religion, disability, sexual orientation, genetic information or pregnancy. 200 cities and 17 states nationally have similar laws against LGBT discrimination.
Carson also shared his views on the LGBT community. “The way this country was designed was live and let live,” he tells Fusion. “I feel, gay people, they can do anything they want.”
“But you’re against gay marriage,” the reporter pointed out.
“I believe marriage is between a man and a woman,” Carson said. “But I don’t care what somebody else thinks. They can do whatever they want. What I object to is they try to change the definitions for everybody.”
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