Dr. Ben Carson tells CPAC: Homosexuals ‘don’t get extra rights’
WASHINGTON, D.C. , March 10, 2014 – At CPAC , former Marine Oliver North and Dr. Ben Carson reminded cheering crowds that social issues are an integral part of America's future. Carson, the famed neurosurgeon and Johns Hopkins professor emeritus who entered the political limelight after criticizing President Obama during the National Prayer Breakfast last year , said that “of course gay people should have the same rights as everyone else. But they don't get extra rights. They don't get to redefine marriage.” He also pointed to the importance of “putting what God says in front of what any man says.” At the end of the national anthem, Americans “must remember that we cannot be free if we are not brave," he added. North, a longtime political commentator and former Reagan administration official, criticized those who “say that we must ignore social issues, like the definition of marriage and the sanctity of life, religious freedoms.” He said t