Bill O’Reilly invites hate group representative to attack SPLC after Ben Carson added to ‘Extremist Files’

Fox News host Bill O’Reilly criticized the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) for adding former Fox contributor Ben Carson to the group’s “extremist files” for his anti-LGBT comments. To defend Carson, O’Reilly invited a senior fellow from the Family Research Council (FRC), a group also listed on the SPLC’s “extremist files” for their anti-LGBT rhetoric, to denounce the SPLC, reports Media Matters for…

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Carson won’t deliver Johns Hopkins commencement address

(CNN) — The conservative neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who last month equated homosexuality with pedophilia and bestiality in a television appearance, withdrew as Johns Hopkins University’s medical school commencement speaker on Wednesday. “Given all the national media surrounding my statements as to my belief in traditional marriage, I believe it would be in the best interests…

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Johns Hopkins reacts to Carson’s homosexuality comments

(CNN) — The dean overseeing Johns Hopkins University Medical School said Friday that controversial comments made by faculty member Ben Carson, a neurosurgeon and outspoken conservative, went against the “core values” of the school. This follows remarks last week by Carson which some saw as equating homosexuality with criminal acts of pedophilia and bestiality. He…

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