Ben Carson: Gay Marriage Will Lead to ‘Mass Killings’ and ‘Utter Chaos’

Ben Carson: Gay Marriage Will Lead to ‘Mass Killings’ and ‘Utter Chaos’

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Former Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson says that opposition to same-sex marriage is the only thing preventing the U.S. from descending into “utter chaos.”

Speaking last Friday at the Pensmore National Symposium on Religious Liberty at the College of the Ozarks, Missouri, Carson urged his audience to be strong in their faith against an “ever-growing government.” Failure to take a strong stand against government, he warned, will lead to mass killings. “The peace we experience now,” he added, “will be a memory only.”

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According to the Springfield News-Leader, at a press conference following his speech, Carson explained that the carnage would be caused by “the whole gay marriage issue.”

“Why must they change [the definition of marriage]? I believe the reason is, if you can change the word of God in one area, then you can change it in every area. It’s the camel’s nose under the tent, and it will just be an avalanche of one thing after the other.

“We won’t have anything that we can use as our reference point because we will have thrown out God’s word. It’ll be every man for himself, every man deciding for himself what is right and what is wrong, and that can’t possibly lead to a good place.”

Religious freedom, he argued, is “incredibly important because it was about us being able to lead our lives according to our beliefs, without interference from the government or anyone else.”

Just to confirm that god only discriminates on terms that suit the religious right, Carson revealed that his deity “does not care what color you are. The fact that we are different colors indicates that God is a very wonderful and gracious individual, because can you imagine how boring we would be if everybody looked exactly like you?”

DLouie Gohmerturing his speech, Carson also said “the transgender stuff” is “absurd” and “the same silliness as safe spaces” on college campuses.

Other conference speakers included Louie Gohmert (right), First Liberty’s Kelly Shackelford, and Abraham Hamilton III from anti-gay litigation group Liberty Counsel.

 

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Bob Dylan Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

Bob Dylan Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

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American Music icon Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.”

Press release from the Swedish Academy @bobdylan awarded 2016 #NobelPrize in Literature: t.co/fPsRtG97r7 pic.twitter.com/Il0xdIfJo2

— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 13, 2016

The NYT reports:

He is the first American to win since the novelist Toni Morrison, in 1993. The announcement, in Stockholm, came as something of a surprise. Although Mr. Dylan, 75, has been mentioned often as having an outside shot at the prize, his work does not fit into the traditional literary canons of novels, poetry and short stories that the prize has traditionally recognized.

The prize comes with a cash amount of $900K.

The other American Nobel laureates in literature have been:

Sinclair Lewis, 1930
Eugene Gladstone O’Neill, 1936
Pearl Buck, 1938
TS Eliot, 1948
William Faulkner, 1949
Ernest Miller Hemingway, 1954
John Steinbeck, 1962
Toni Morrison, 1993

Adds NPR:

Yet few would argue Dylan has been anything but influential, both in the U.S. and beyond its borders. The prolific singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist has produced dozens of albums, including The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, Highway 61 Revisited and Blood on the Tracks. His track “Like a Rolling Stone” has taken on mythic standing in the decades since its release; many, including Dylan himself, have pointed to it as emblematic of a sea change in American music.

“Tin Pan Alley is gone,” Dylan proclaimed in 1985, referring the dominant conventions established by music publishers of the early 20th century. “I put an end to it. People can record their own songs now.”

WatchDylan perform “The Times They Are a Changin’”

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