"What I have a problem with is when people try to force people to act against their beliefs because they say 'they're discriminating against me.' So they can go right down the street and buy a cake, but no, let's bring a suit against this person because I want them to make my cake even though they don't believe in it. Which is really not all that smart because they might put poison in that cake." - Tea Party darling Ben Carson , in a press conference yesterday that followed his speech at the 2016 GOP Clown Car Revue.notes that journalists reacted to the remark with "dead silence."

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