Following a New York town hall meeting, Republican presidential candidate was shaking hands with the smallish crowd when one attendee piped up to ask, “Do you think I chose to be gay?”
The attendee, who ABC News reports was clad in a T-shirt promoting a nearby LGBT community center, said, “I have a quick question. Do you think I chose to be gay?”
“Did you choose to be gay?” Carson parroted.
“Yes, do you think I chose to be gay?”
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“That’s a long conversation,” Carson said, pausing to pose for a photo with a supporter.
“I think you’re full of sh*t,” she responded with a smile.
Then she walked away.
“Okay,” Carson responded, and that was that.
(Perhaps it’s not part of “a long conversation,” after all.)
Carson then went on to pose for more pictures.
Watch the exchange below:
WATCH: @realBenCarson confronted at Staten Island town hall: "Do you think I chose to be gay?"
https://t.co/gL3N7TXpO1
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) January 5, 2016
