Carson: Sorry About That NAMBLA Crack

Tea Party darling Ben Carson non-apologized today for comparing same-sex marriage to NAMBLA and bestiality by using the usual "if I offended anyone" cop-out.

"I think people have completely taken the wrong meaning out of what I was saying," the 61-year-old surgeon said in a telephone interview Friday. "First of all, I certainly believe gay people should have all the rights that anybody else has. What I was basically saying is that as far as marriage is concerned that has traditionally been between a man and a woman and nobody should be able to change that." "Now perhaps the examples were not the best choice of words, and I certainly apologize if I offended anyone," he added. "But the point that I was making was that no group of individuals, whoever they are, whatever their belief systems, gets to change traditional definitions. The reason I believe the way I do, I will readily confess, is because I am a Christian who believes in The Bible."

The Baltimore Sun (link above) has invited commentary on whether Carson's is really apologizing.  Readers are already claiming that Carson is yet another victim of PC homofascism.