(CNN) Potential presidential candidate Ben Carson doesn't want to talk about LGBT issues.

The neurosurgeon insisted Thursday on CNN's "New Day" that the topic is "a personal issue" that should be left to private forums -- not discussed in a public forum like the media.

"It seems to be a topic -- a person's sexual orientation -- that is of fair amount of concern to you. I don't find it to be anywhere near as interesting," Carson said Thursday. "I think it's a personal issue and we ought to leave it as a personal issue."

"Leave...the personal issues to the personal people," Carson added.

Carson also refused to share his views in the widely discredited practice of gay conversion therapy, which is intended to make gay people feel heterosexual. The White House officially announced Wednesday it supports banning the practice.

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