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Ben Carson Is Fighting a Culture War

Posted: March 6, 2015 at 9:45 pm

The presidential candidate's remarks on homosexuality are more likely to help than hurt his political aspirations.

You might think Ben Carsons recent comments suggesting that prison turns people gay have hurt his presidential campaign. I dont buy it. In fact, I suspect theyll improve his chances.

First, Carsons supporters agree with what he said. According to a March 2014 Washington Post poll, 48 percent of conservative Republicans think being gay is something you choose while only 39 percent disagree. If you polled the activists on the Christian-right most likely to back Carsons campaign, that figure would probably be even more lopsided.

Second, it wont exactly shock Carsons backers to hear that hes anti-gay. Last March, Carson made headlines for linking gays to members of NAMBLA, the man/boy love society, and to people who believe in bestiality. Liberals pounced. But theres no evidence Carsons comments hurt his nascent presidential campaign. In fact, polls in key primary states regularly show Carson running ahead of candidates like Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and Rick Perry, who the press takes more seriously.

Carsons anti-gay reputation may hurt him among Republican elites, which could help explain why, after his prison comment, he has now backtracked. But among the hard-right activists hes courting, Carsons ability to offend is key to his appeal.

The Politics of Sexuality

Being politically incorrect is a big part of Carsons brand. In his 2009 book, The Big Picture, Carson argues that the obsession with politically correct speech has reduced the quality of meaningful dialogue and discourages honesty. And he claims that the two issues on which political correctness takes the greatest toll are abortion and gay rights. In the 2013 National Prayer Breakfast speech that helped catapult him to political fame, Carson said, PC is dangerous, because you see, this country, one of the founding principles was freedom of thought and freedom of expression. And it muffles people. Last month, Carson declared that theres no such thing as a politically correct war.

Statements like this make right-wingers stand up and cheer. Last December, after Carson spoke to 900 adoring fans at a forum sponsored by the Christian right group Family Leader, the groups president, Bob Vander Plaats, told CNN, It is like a breath of fresh air when he talks about not being politically correct and how he wont be controlled by the PC police and he will say what needs to be said. That message really resonated.

It particularly resonates, I suspect, because Carson is black. Theres no subject on which conservatives feel as harassed by the PC police as on race. Thus, to hear an African American denounce political correctness offers a special thrill. And for conservatives, the fact that Carson, despite being African American, is regularly stopped and frisked by the PC police himself, proves that maybe liberals are the real racists after all. After Carsons comments comparing homosexuality to bestiality, Sean Hannity declared that, The left just has daggers out for him. You cant be African American and conservative without breaking some liberal rule.

To stay in the public conversation, Ben Carson must keep committing gaffes like the one he committed this week. After all, hes never held elective office and has little command of policy. Hes not offering a governing agenda; hes fighting the culture war. And the more fiercely he fights it, the more excited conservatives are to have him on their side.

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Censorship of UK porn laws – Video

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Newsroom: Modi Government Pushes For Internet Censorship In SC – Video

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Why Be Good? Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (2007) – Video

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Safe sex groups slam Facebook for censorship

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Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images A mosaic of user photos shows the Facebook logo.

By most measures, The Great American Condom Campaign would seem a pretty easy cause to get behind. The national youth-led effort, through which volunteers distribute contraceptives on college campuses and educate young people about the importance of safe sex, features an array of colorfuladvertisements and clever teases like, Do It For Your Country.

Its the perfect mix of passion and practically, packaged with, if youll pardon the phrase, cold hard facts about the precarious mix of youth and sexuality. So when the Washington-based nonprofit organization behind the effort -- Advocacy for Youth -- tried to promote one of the ads on Facebook, representatives were shocked to learn that it was rejected for violating the sites ad guidelines concerning adult content.

Its hypocritical, said Rachel Cooke, Advocacy for Youths associate director of communications. Compare it to all of the other sexualized content thats allowed on Facebook, or Instagram or other online platforms. How can information that could be protecting you and saving your life be censored?

The rejection was no fluke. After some experimenting, the organization found that Facebook ads using the phrase safe sex, when targeting an audience of 18 and younger, were frequently blocked. In a phone interview Thursday, Cooke said equating sexual-health information with adult content sends a dangerous message to the people who need it most.

Young people are eager and theyre seeking out information, because they dont often have that at school, she said. And when they cant find it, they find the worst sort of information.

Advocacy for Youth, Cooke said, has been reluctant to place safe-sex ads on Facebook ever since the initial rejection a few years ago, but as it turns out, the problem of distributing important sexual-health information continues to be widespread across various social media platforms.Everywhere from Twitter to Pinterest to Yahoo, groups seeking to educate the public -- be it about safe sex, sexually transmitted diseases, sexual violence or any number of issues -- say they are finding their ads lumped in with prohibited content like pornography and ads for sex toys, all due to policies they say are unable to distinguish between sexual health and sexual gratification.

We were shocked when our efforts to increase the profile of vaginismus -- a health condition -- on Facebook were denied, said Deborah Arrindell, vice president of health policy for the American Sexual Health Association. Facebook decided our add was promoting a sexually explicit product. All we were promoting was sexual health information. This is a condition that causes painful intercourse. Women are embarrassed to discuss it, even with healthcare providers.

Lets Talk About Sex -- Or Not

Despite sometimes being championed as bastions of free speech and progressivism, major tech companies like Facebook Inc., Twitter Inc. and Google Inc. tend to be quite conservative when it comes to sexual or graphic content, at least as it pertains to advertising. Twittersadvertising policy, for instance, allows messages that promote safe sex, but only if they are not sexual in nature. Facebooks ad guidelines prohibit adult content, including nudity, depictions of people in explicit or suggestive positions, or activities that are overly suggestive or sexually provocative."

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