Intro: "The chatter about Michele Bachmann's husband's sexuality is spreading. Michelle Cottle on how it could affect a candidate whose Christian beliefs are central to her campaign."
Michele and husband Marcus Bachmann on the campaign trail in Waterloo, Iowa, 06/27/11. (photo: Charlie Neibergall/AP)
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It will be fitting when Mr & Mrs. Michele reach the pearly gates and St. Pete sends them downstairs, that then they'll finally realize that God is Gay and She's not at all happy with their attitude.
ARE THERE ANY ARTICLES ON THE KIDS, THEIR AGES, SEXES, HOW LONG WERE EACH KID'S STAY, ANY INTERVIEWS WITH THE KIDS OR THEIR GOVT FOSTERCARE WORKER???? IF HE IS WHAT THEY SAY HE IS, THEN WHAT PROTECTION DID THE MALE FOSTER KIDS GET WITH ONLY HIM BEING THE PARENT AT HOME????
Right on!
N.
Exactly right, but if this is true (and I truly do not care if this man is gay; it's a non-issue in general, as far as I'm concerned), then, it is indicative of the purest form of hypocrisy that is about as anti-Christian or any other religious or spiritual thought as it can be! Now THAT concerns me.
If this husband of a woman who is looking to run the country is lying about his sexuality while gay-bashing, then, that is more than likely their modus operendi for all things, and that is what we will get in the White House if Bachmann is elected.
I, for one, do not want another hypocrite running our country. I'm sick to death of NO ONE in government walking like s/he talks.
Tell the truth...dare I say...for heaven's sake! I do not care if this rabid evangelical man is gay, but I do care that he openly and unflinchingly bashes gays, using the Bible the Bachmanns purport to "live by" and supposedly have been "called" to serve the country by. Oy! What about the real issues, Bachmanns? Time for some reality, please.
Come out, come out...whoever you are.
N.
"I'm gonna wash that man right out of my hair..." ("I'm gonna pray that gay right out of my hair...")
I think a big musical number with lavish production values would be just the thing to get through to all those people who think it's something that can be "cured".
Point taken! Must use animatronic lions in keeping with the fake species of Christianity.
Pickwicky
I've been to several Torture Museums in Europe and seen many contraptions, wood cuts, drawings, and documents about the inquisition. There was always a strange connection between sexuality and possession by the devil. Often the torture was directed at the genitals or anus.
The obsession with sexuality and the desire to torture people for their sexuality seems to be the phase some christians are still in. The torture in the war on terror really does come from the christian control of the US government.
My opinion - Scalia/Thomas should be impeached for sleeping with the ALEC group. (Google ALEC + Walker or Ryan Paul, or Eric Cantor)
Register and get mail-in ballots for 2012 elections NOW. Vote 2012 - get the Koch funded Reps & Senators OUT or down we go.
Bug your reps/senators to vote on Job Creation bills or you won't vote for them next time they run.
What does it say about HER that she's spent her adult life targeting gays, while her husband is so obviously "gay'? It demonstrates that she's not very bright or perceptive (and certainly shouldn't be President) and even more importantly, shouldn't her husband be subjected to the same label of evil she has fostered for others? Should he be exempt from the discrimination she insists all gays should face, just because he'her husband and closeted?
And finally, this is a morality tale. If you spend most of your life advocating harm for others (and claim this belief is supported by your 'religious' beliefs) what happens when someone YOU love, turns out to one of those you wish to destroy?
Do you turn it back on those exposing the lie and claim that they're evil, too? Or do you take a long hard look at yourself and what you've been doing?
How Bachmann handles this will determine her political fate.
Sorry RSN, I couldn't resist.
With the Backmanns being exposed for what they are, perhaps it's time to go Sarah Palin and the other right wing conservative politicians! After all, they all hide something nasty and wicked.
The religious right have complained ad nauseam about fec tax $$ for abortions (although the Hide Bill prohibits such) -- so how can the fed. tax $ fund some holy-rolling prejudice against a minority --- WE NEEDS JOBS --- not to listen to abortion rights, gay rights, religious rights --- ALL ala-the religious rights' constitution (I mean bible -- -is any of this really in the bible in the manner proffered by these GOP/TP? --- I know it is NOT)
Vote 2012 -- but google your choice for any connection to ALEC or Koch brothers (who are funding these nut cases) + Walker + Ryan Paul + all TP candidates (Money talks -- and they have no $$ except these sleeze bags who hope to be KING --- sorry George "W" --- you missed ur chance but took us down to a place that will take YEARS to recover from -- u creep/war criminal)
Excuse me -- for being so angry spending any time on this subject!
If any of this is true, it will be interesting to see how quickly Michele Bachmann disappears from the political scene.
I grew up in the Midwest where I never knew anyone who "was gay". I probably knew several people who were ACTUALLY gay, but I didn't know anyone I KNEW was gay. In the Midwest, the gaydar is trained right out of you. I always thought it was rare and a curiosity, like having a third nipple, until I moved to the deep South, where contrary to popular opinion, gay people are much more out without fear - at least compared to in the Midwest.
I have since moved to a part of the U.S. where gay people are very open. A friend from my old high school lives out here too. When I talk to her, she always remarks about the gay people she sees from the Midwest who have wives and children and no one in the town where they're from even suspects.
I wonder if that's what we're dealing with here.
God knows there are plenty of gay republicans. they even have a club -- the Log Cabin republicans. It is just too bad that republicans cannot accept that sexual attraction to someone of the same sex is normal. It has been around for as long as humans have been around. Rove, Bachman, and the rest of the republicans need to have a more realistic view of human nature -- but maybe that is why the are republicans. They revel in fantasies about human nature and human history.
Bush was NOT elected twice. I'm pretty sure he wasn't even elected once.
in a fearful public, wearied by war, the new precariat, a bachmann/palin evanglical/spir itual hometown populism could have potent appeal.
our task is to stimulate people to thinking. not to drawn into the epic war of god against satan.
the epic war is the war of the rich against the poor, resulting in a giant theft and concentration of wealth in the very rich and the past victories of common people for freedom, respect, justice, equality being reversed.
The best way to handles this is to let pay out enough of their own line to hang themselves. Stand by in silence. Be still and know that to give them nothing to rale and push against they have no message.
If she denies it, she's got half the wingnut religionists against her (the male half), and if she acknowledges it, then the next question is whether we want Marcus baby as the de facto president.
Who would have thought the world might end in a nuclear crusade?!
If this guy is gay it's really the business of no one but him and his wife. You can be Gay and not pro-gay marriage.
Let's attack her on her ideas and theories and not allow to become a sympathetic victim of the media, that only hurts the strength of our positions.
As a community we seem very insecure.
Let's address her real policies we do not like in an objective way. She is the one aspiring to be President and the people in this community think she has an unpopular stance, so we think she will lose.
Let's put our energy in sending the right messages to our leader, but faltering President not to sell out Medicare and dis-enfranchise our elderly in the current budget dispute.
DO you really believe ridicule is a real way to get people to believe? No Billy Bob ridicule creates alienation and polarization.
Do you think the GOP's read this blog?
You are supporting allegations which you cannot even prove. And if this is true so what?
I can prove Obama is faltering and his trajectory is one heading for defeat.
We would better serve him by sending concrete advice like 'don't mess with Medicare and stop selling us short.
Satire and ridicule are as old as politics and are often the only tools the powerless actually have at their disposal. The ones complaining are always the ones who are used to getting their way.
I don't think the GOP reads these threads. It's not a blog by the way. Many people who DO read these articles can use what they learn to scream back at the GOP whenever fox and limb-blow and their neighbors and relatives are screaming at them in public restaurants.
I'm not supporting allegations. I'm making a point about hypocricy.
Do you think that it doesn't matter if bachmann is elected? Do you think she wouldn't be worse than Obama? Do you think it's not acceptable to use everything at our disposal to ridicule her now, rather than after she's the first lady?
CONT.
Do you prefer defeat to victory? Or are you just a troll who wants to see her in office anyway?
By the way, what does "allegations I can't prove" have to do with making jokes at the expense of my political enemies, who'd be more than happy to kill me if I got in their way? They are enemies whether you like it or not. If you don't believe it, just ask them, or listen to their actual words. If you'd rather give a group hug to people who want to see you distroyed and would probably shoot you if you tried to hug them, that's your choice. It's not mine. We've tried turning the other cheek. All four of my cheeks are sore.
Do you think the right cares if the allegations of the President's "muslim heritage" are true? Do you think the GOP cares about the "truth of the allegations" that "Obama hates America"?
No, I'm not willing to play by different rules than my political enemies. You can tie your hands behind your back all you want, but you won't tie mine. I plan to use ridicule every chance I get to point out the hypocricy of the repugnican party and people who think "small government" is best - WHILE ALSO wanting to dictate what you do in your bedroom.
Do you agree with them? If not, then stop trying to hinder people who are willing to fight back.
Mr. Bachman hates gays because he is one; Hitler hated jews because he was one (Read Dr. Alice Miller "the making of monsters")
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