Gallagher also brought up a YouGov poll suggesting that around 74% of Black voters disapproved of Carson recent controversial opposition to a Muslim president.
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Earlier in the interview Carson acknowledged that the media plays a pivotal role in shaping the opinions of certain demographics, saying they “take advantage of low-information individuals and people who won’t investigate things for themselves”.
But we can’t afford to ignore just how despicable Carson’s gambit was. They are not supposed to go to school. “Probably not”. But when Trump, Carson and Cruz criticize Islam, it does?
Valeryie Hoch, 68, said she was also drawn to Carson’s demeanor and convictions rather than his religious beliefs.
He was interviewed in one of the news TV stations on Sunday. James Iredell of North Carolina, later appointed to the Supreme Court by President George Washington in 1790, spoke eloquently on the issue, “But it is to be objected that the people of America may, perhaps, choose representatives who have no religion at all, and that pagans and Mahometans may be admitted into offices”.
After the presidential candidate faced outrage over his comments that he would not support a Muslim candidate for president, Carson blamed “PC culture” in the media for the backlash.
Carson’s fundraising spiked after his original comments. Carson told journalist Soul Watson: “You know, there is no society that can long survive without values and principles. Yes, you have to”. Carson said he believes black voters are exhausted of the media telling them what to think and say.
“One of the major things that is threatening our nation right now, is divisiveness, on all levels”. Of course, that would include those running for president who are self-admitted Christians, among whose number there are quite a few extremist sects.
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“So do you believe Islam is consistent with the Constitution?” the “Meet the Press” host asked. Reminded that Article 6 of the Constitution explicitly demands there be no religious qualification to hold “any office or public trust in the United States“, Carson doubled down that Americans should “not put people at the leadership of our country whose faith might interfere with carrying out the duties of the Constitution”. And if Carson could not put Huckabee in that grouping, for whatever reason, he could be made to look the hypocrite. Rick Santorum and Texas Sen. And not surprisingly, the Constitution’s ban on religious tests prompted the nation’s first debate in 1788 about whether a Catholic, Jew, Muslim or Atheist might one day become president of the United States.
