They allow time for vetting to catch looney tunes positions like this:
Ben Carson Blamed Same-Sex Marriage For “Dramatic Fall Of The Roman Empire”
In his 2012 history book, GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson wrote that same-sex marriage contributed to the decline of the Roman Empire.
“As a Bible-believing Christian, you might imagine that I would not be a proponent of gay marriage,” Carson wrote in his book, America the Beautiful. “I believe God loves homosexuals as much as he loves everyone, but if we can redefine marriage as between two men or two women or any other way based on social pressures as opposed to between a man and a woman, we will continue to redefine it in any way that we wish, which is a slippery slope with a disastrous ending, as witnessed in the dramatic fall of the Roman Empire.”
Ben Carson: “Political Correctness” Could Destroy U.S. Like It Did Ancient Rome
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson once said that America could “go the same route as Ancient Rome” because of “political correctness.”
In an interview with host Soul Watson uploaded to SoundCloud three years ago, Carson talked about advice he offered young people on the importance “of having values and principles that govern your life.”
He said that “no society” “can long survive without values and principles,” and argued that “political correctness” was eroding the values of America.
“You know, there is no society that can long survive without values and principles,” he said. “And if we get so caught up in political correctness, that nothing is right and nothing is wrong, then we go the same route as Ancient Rome. They did exactly the same thing. And they forgot who they were. They stood for nothing and they fell for everything and they went right down the tubes.”
Carson certainly seems to be obsessed with periods in history when men wore nothing under their togas. Hmmm.
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And FWIW, how does "politically correct" mean nothing is right or wrong? Indeed, using his issue of gay marriage and attributing proponents of it to "political correctness", I would think it is clear that political correctness deems those who deny to individuals the legal right to marry are wrong and that this denial is something that needed to be remedied. Otherwise, what is the point of the discussion?
