On today’s “Faith and Freedom” radio show, Liberty Counsel’s Mat Staver and Matt Barber declared that Ben Carson has effectively destroyed his presidential chances by apologizing for his statement that prison sex proves that homosexuality is a choice and vowing not to talk about the issue of gay rights anymore.
Barber blasted Carson for backtracking after he had “rightly” stated that being gay is a choice, saying “it took, I think, a day for him to come out with hat-in-hand and give this blathering mea culpa, just apologizing and saying how he’ll never do this again and then promising never to talk about this issue again. So they have intimidated him into silence. From a political standpoint, now Ben Carson is dead in my eyes.”
Staver agreed, saying that there is no way that Carson can refuse to talk about this issue “because it is a real threat against our faith and freedom and we can’t ignore it.”
“We need politicians and we need leaders who can speak boldly on this issue and who will not shrink,” Staver said. “Saying that you’re never going to speak on it and apologizing is not the kind of leadership you need”:
