Carson confronted at town hall: ‘Do you think I chose to be gay?’

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Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson was confronted Monday about his views on homosexuality after a town hall on Staten Island, N.Y. 

{mosads}”Do you think I chose to be gay?” asked an unidentified woman, who was wearing a Pride Center of Staten Island T-shirt. 

“Did you choose to be gay?” the retired neurosurgeon responded. 

“Yes, do you think I chose to be gay?” the woman asked again. 

“That’s a long conversation,” Carson said. 

“I think you’re full of shit,” the woman said as she walked away. 

“OK,” Carson responded.

Carson has previously said being gay is a choice since people “go into prison straight and when they come out, they’re gay.”