in the republican party until he went on fox news and said this about gay people. marriage is between a man and a woman. no group, be the guys, be the nambla, be the people who believe in bestiality, it doesn t matter what they are, they don t get to change the definition. it s not something against gays. those comments didn t exactly fit with the gop s attempt to rebrand its image and sparked a huge backlash and a public rebuke from carson s job at hopkins university. carson eventually apologized but the damage was done. we ve now learned that carson has stepped down as the university s commencement speaker. it s yet another sign that intolerance is not acceptable. i should be arrested for crimes against potted plant kind.