Dr Ben Carson RNC speech: Saul Alinsky, abortion is evil, transgenderism is absurd
Carson went further Wednesday morning, equating gay marriage and abortion rights with “evil.”
“When you look at the principles that are espoused by Christ, by Christianity, then look at what is espoused by evil, and then you look at things like killing babies, you look at things like redefining marriage away from what the biblical definition is, I think there’s pretty good consistency there,” Carson said on CNN’s “New Day .”
Carson was speaking in defense of his convention-night claim that Clinton’s values were suspect because of a 1968 college thesis she wrote on Alinsky, the late Chicago-based community organizer. Alinsky wrote an epigraph that mentioned Lucifer in a book published in 1971, “Rules for Radicals.”
“You have to also use your brain. You say if she believed that at that time, now look at her actions. You look at what she advocates — the killing of babies, the dissolution of traditional marriage, all these kinds of things. Those are pretty consistent, quite frankly,” Carson said.
He also pointed out that Clinton had been on a “first-name” basis with Alinsky and that he offered her a job after college, an episode Clinton described in her 2003 memoir “Living History.”
“This is a nation where every coin in our pocket, and every bill in our wallet says, ‘In God We Trust,'” he said. “So, are we willing to elect someone as president who has as their role model somebody who acknowledges Lucifer? Think about that.”
Full RNC transcript on final page (via TIME)
