Dan Savage to Ben Carson: “Choose to be gay yourself.”
“If being gay is a choice, prove it. Choose it. Choose to be gay yourself.”
— Dan Savage, advice columnist and founder of the It Gets Better campaign, responding to homophobic conservative commentator Ben Carson, who stated in a CNN interview that homosexuality was a choice. Savage, writing in his weekly column, told Carson, “Show America how that’s done, Ben, show us how a man can choose to be gay. Suck my dick.”
Carson apologized a day after making the statement.
Watch Ben Carson’s original statment below.
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