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Wednesday, July 6, 2011

2012 This Story About Michele Bachmann's Anti-Gay Agenda Is Required Reading

Posted by Paul Constant on Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 2:09 PM

It's easy to make jokes about how dumb Michele Bachmann is, but this lady is scary, folks. This Washington Post story covers a lot of stuff you've already read on Slog, but it's a real eye-opener to see all this information in one place:

“Philosophically, they are 100 percent aligned,” said Ron Carey, Bachmann’s former chief of staff, and now a Pawlenty supporter, who admired Dr. Bachmann as a “soft-mannered, gentle, great guy.”

Both Bachmanns have warned that a greater acceptance of homosexuality could have grave social consequences. In spearheading a proposed ban on gay marriage in 2004, Michele Bachmann remarked that “a member of our family” was gay and called it “a very sad life. It’s part of Satan.” (Michele Bachmann’s stepsister, Helen LaFave, is gay and in 2006 publicly opposed the ban.) Scott Dibble, a gay Democratic state senator in Minnesota and former adversary of Michele Bachmann, said that she once prayed over his empty desk — “Praying for me, I assume” — and that she made the argument to him that the furthering of gay rights could result in children being “lured into trying homosexuality out” and that “the reason for high divorce rates in Scandinavian countries was that they offered equality” to gays, he said in an interview.

She's a bigot, pure and simple. Go read the whole thing, please, and pass it on.

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Is anyone else already sick of seeing these portrait drawings (especially this one)? We still have about a year until the primary is decided :(

Posted by fsb on July 6, 2011 at 2:27 PM

idiot, bigot, fundy. same diff.

Posted by Max Solomon on July 6, 2011 at 2:41 PM

Slight change of subject, but what bugged me so much about people cheering and supporting Verizon at the Gay Pride Parade a few weeks ago was the knowledge that Verizon gives money to Michelle Bachmann's election campaigns. They sponsor the parade and try to pretend to be pro-gay, but then they donate to the most vitriolic anti-gay politician out there.

Posted by kcrobinson

on July 6, 2011 at 2:45 PM

Ah yes, it must be the fantastically pro-gay cultures in Belarus and Russia that put them in the top two spots for per capita divorce rates, above Sweden.

Posted by Dougsf on July 6, 2011 at 3:19 PM

I have a feeling, that as part of a deal to get support for the nomination, Romney will give her the VP slot.

Posted by Vince on July 6, 2011 at 3:28 PM

She's scary in the same sense as the millions of other Americans who will never become President either whose views on, well, any issue, are also scary.

Posted by The Wretched Harmony on July 6, 2011 at 3:37 PM

No amount of anti-gay bigotry will de-gay your husband Michele, sorry.

Posted by Lynx on July 6, 2011 at 3:39 PM

@ 6 - Except those millions of other Americans don't have a ginormous media platform from which to spew their hate and bigotry.

Thanks Paul - gonna read it, gonna pass it on. But I'm already annoyed just by clicking the link and seeing the headline "Michele Bachmann's Husband Shares Her Strong Conservative Values." No, sorry, Washington Post, hate and bigotry should in no way be considered 'conservative values', as much as a certain LOUD segment of the populace is attempting to make them be.

Cloaking such vile, dangerous idiocy as 'conservative values' just really irks me. Like, at lot.

Posted by merry on July 6, 2011 at 3:59 PM

I thought Bachman's husband was gay?

Posted by tiktok on July 6, 2011 at 4:11 PM

She married a self-hating closet case, she's a bigot.

One may not follow the other like day follows night, but there's a connection here, fer sure.

Posted by judybrowni on July 6, 2011 at 4:19 PM

Note to Michele Bachmann:

Divorce Rates (per U.S. Census data, 2008 numbers, per 1000 population):
United States: 5.2%
Denmark: 4.1%
Sweden: 3.5%

They don't give Norway, Finland, or Iceland, but we can safely assume that their divorce rates are also lower than the U.S. divorce rate.

Posted by Simac on July 6, 2011 at 4:21 PM

And the highest divorce rates in the U.S. are in the Bible Belt. #1: Oklahoma. while #50 is Massachusetts.

Posted by Biologist in the stix on July 6, 2011 at 4:37 PM

The level of ignorance Mr. Michele exhibits is sickening. He is either very ignorant or a liar. Or both. What a pair of bigots.

Posted by LuisitaPhD on July 6, 2011 at 5:50 PM

The other, possibly more disturbing, take away from that article is that Mrs. Bachmann does the whole "wife must be submissive to husband" biblical head of household BS. The article says "...she stated that she pursued her law degree only because her husband had told her to." So does that mean that if elected Marcus Bachmann will be the unelected (and therefore in many ways unaccountable) de facto POTUS due to the fact that Michele apparently believes he has an inherent right to give her orders?

Posted by Deimos on July 6, 2011 at 5:52 PM

@14- Evidently, yes. He's unelectable due to the flaming issue, she's more likely to succeed.

Posted by dwightmoodyforgetsthings

on July 6, 2011 at 6:02 PM

I say she's a lesbian.
She married a gay guy so she wouldn't need to have sex with a man.

Posted by sirkowski

on July 6, 2011 at 6:04 PM

She's not a contender worth getting worked up over. Seriously? You're gonna fluff about like a chicken over this idiot? Besides being anti-gay she's also incredibly ignorant of foreign affairs, has no track record of ANY kind of civil-success...not even woman, which you'd think she'd maybe care about... she can't debate a fruit cup unless it's carefully scripted and memorized and there's the fact that there are literally hundreds of videos of her stuffing her foot in her mouth. It's so transparent: She's only faux-running to create enough buzz and media attention that when she suddenly drops out or is forced out of the running, she can at least still get her book deal and reality show. She saw this with Palin and basically thinks the same rich fate awaits her.

Posted by SeattleCHILLout on July 6, 2011 at 6:11 PM