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- DR. BEN CARSON APOLOGIZ FOR SAYG BEG GAY IS A CHOICE
- BEN CARSON: PRISON TURNS "A LOT" OF STRAIGHT PEOPLE TO GAYS
DR. BEN CARSON APOLOGIZ FOR SAYG BEG GAY IS A CHOICE
Homosexualy is a choice, jt look at the prisons, Republin nrosurgeon Ben Carson said on CNN.
BEN CARSON: PRISON TURNS "A LOT" OF STRAIGHT PEOPLE TO GAYS
He also argued that homosexualy is a choice, rather than blogil. "Bee a lot of people who go to prison go to prison straight -- and when they e out, they're gay. We’ll jump to the pot here: There is no nclive evince to support Carson’s claim that "a lot of people" make a swch om heterosexual to homosexual while prison.
Further, the medil muny tends to nclu that homosexualy is not a matter of choice -- notably the Amerin Psychologil Associatn. Of those 24, 18 changed om straight to bisexual, three changed om bisexual to straight, and one each changed om bisexual to gay, gay to bisexual, and gay to straight. It’s possible that people go to prison unaware of their sexualy, and then once they are exposed to homosexual behavr as an mate, they realize that they are gay or bisexual, Helen Eigenberg, who also studi prison sexualy as a profsor at the Universy of Tennsee at Chattanooga, said an terview wh PoliFact.
They might thk that jt bee they played a role a homosexual act, they are now gay, which is not necsarily te. Greg Herek, a psychology profsor at the Universy of California Davis who studi sexual orientatn, poted to a natnally reprentative study that shows the vast majory of gay men and women do not perceive their sexual orientatn as a rult of choice. People n change their behavr -- such as engagg homosexual behavr prison -- but that do not equate to a change orientatn, Bailey, the Northwtern rearcher, told PoliFact.