Ben Carson Steps Down as Johns Hopkins Commencement Speaker

Ben Carson is no Sarah Palin, it seems. After he equated homosexuality with bestiality and pedophilia, he responded to the firestorm by resigning his upcoming gig as commencement speaker.

While some Freepers are all "sekret masterstroke!" a lot of others will not stand for this kind of quitter behavior!

rlmorel knows liberals never resign in disgrace!

I understand how he didn’t want to distract. I wish he hadn’t backed down, but I understand.

Funny.

Liberal speakers NEVER care about the effect they might have on a commencement day. It is all about them.

Responsibility2nd is just gonna sit back and score zingers against the evil Liberals that exist in his brain:

Its very clear then.

Johns Hopkins is RACIST.

Truth2012 knows this only emboldens liberals to protest:

Caving in only makes them stronger. He may as well give up all of his public speaking engagements and stick to medicine.

Viennacon doesn't believe in outreach:

Hearing from Carson is a privilege. These students didn’t deserve it.

goodnesswins is gonna boycot doctors from Johns Hopkins:

I heard it was only 8 students who protested his speaking....but...I think we all should AVOID any doctor with a degree in the recent past or future from John Hopkins....likely not very qualified

Cyber Liberty is done with this guy.

IMO, he is disqualified from running for public office after breaking that promise to the rest of the graduating class. He’s a great speaker, but he hasn’t got the chops for politics.

SusaninOhio had an epiphany of why liberals are so totally unified!

I think that may be the problem - there is no one conservative with whom every other conservative agrees, so not all will vote for him. However, liberals lie to all the voters, telling each one what he wants to hear, and telling the next one the opposite - so all the libs vote for him.

Conservatives are lousy liars. That’s what it takes to get elected in this country. Off point, but I think I just made a break thru of some kind, if only in my mind.

ru4liberty tries a Sarah Palin-esque masterstroke scenario:

Dr. Carson is anything but a coward. He exhibited a lot of wisdom in this decision. He knows full well that the points he would have made in his speech would only be lost in chaos of the media narrative of his having been an unwelcomed speaker. We know for sure there would be those who would attempt to shout him down, and very little if any of his speech would be heard or remembered as a result. He will get plenty of chances to bring his message to those who are willing to hear it. He played this with maturity and grace and has taken much of the wind out of the sails of the media and leftists with this decision. It has to be so frustrating for them.

Bwahahahahahaha!!!

animal172 knows everything is a battle:

Hell would have frozen over before I caved to the homosexuals.

Wurlitzer is sad about all the maggot victories.

Every time we think there is someone in our corner who can take the fight to the ruling elite, they collapse like a cheap card table.

If you let a bunch of maggot infested, syphilis infected, brainwashed scum chase you away you would not have been a leader in the first place.

Too, bad but once again the lying but highly vocal communists win another battle.

I guess it is easier to stand up for your principals when you are on the left because your principals can change at will.

Candor7 thinks Obama is behind this somehow:

John Hopkins just LOST a whole cadre of donors and legatees who would have and could have given millions to the University.

I suppose Barrak Hussein will arrange for the Arab sheiks to take up the slack.

I used to think highly of such post secondary institutions as Notre Dame and John Hopkins. Not anymore. They have fallen for the propaganda of the liberal utopian fascists. We’ll see how they like THAT in a few years.

Then manc shows up to tell yet another story of being a giant weirdo asshole:

if the homostapo and the socialist and communists ever think that this family will ever stop speaking up in public etc about what marriage is and homosexuals then they have another thing coming.

Just two days ago my youngest is at soccer and he;s moved to an older team and we met some of the parents and one couple are on the left and yes I spoke up about what I believe and how disgusting homosexuality was to me and what marriage is.

Their reply nothing because when you confront the left they have no idea what to say past their sticker slogans or if they’re not in a big group