Presidential Candidate Michele Bachmann is still silent on the topic of whether the clinic she owns with her husband is practicing discredited and harmful gay reparative therapy. The clinic has billed as much as $137,000 in taxpayer funds. Marcus Bachmann has denied he called gay people "barbarians" and claimed that the recordings were doctored. An MSNBC Hardball segment look at that defense and found it laughable.
The Tea Party Nation doesn't think that should matter anyway. It's perfectly OK to call gays "barbarians" says the group's president Judson Phillips. The Tea Party Nation is rushing to the Bachmann's defense, urging their followers to "stand with the Bachmanns" against a "liberal freak show [that] is coming after Michele Bachmann."
From Right Wing Watch:
The liberal freak show is coming after Michele Bachmann. That is not much of a surprise. Bachmann is running a very disciplined campaign, encouraging conservatives and running with a conservative agenda. But now the left is coming after her.Mr. Phillips? I admire your adherence to your principles. I suggest you reach out to Congresswoman Bachmann, and urge her to tackle the topic head on, and assure your followers that fighting the gays will be an important focus of her presidency, just as it's been for her entire career to date.The left wants to use the gay rights issue against her. Bachmann's husband, Marcus is a therapist and according to the left, he has committed a horrible crime. He used therapy to help gays who did not want to be gay any more change.
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Most Americans do not believe gay marriage is a good thing. Most Americans do not believe homosexuality (which is only 1-3% of the population) is a good thing, though most Americans are tolerant of most things.
The left is not tolerant. The left never allows dissent. To the horror of Americans, Marcus Bachmann once referred to gays as "barbarians."
Barbarians?
If you are a conservative you have been called much worse and usually in much more obscene terms, for being a conservative.
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Liberalism cannot stand a real debate. Liberals always lose those debates. That is why they always resort to fear, intimidation, violence and mob rule to achieve their goals. We cannot let mob rule win.
For this, we must stand with the Bachmanns.
She doesn't seem to want to talk about it. This reporter asked her twice if she'd like to give her side of the story on these liberal attacks, and she wouldn't address it at all.
Congresswoman Bachmann needs to lead here. She must lead the charge against the intolerant left that would silence those who call gay Americans "barbarians."
Go forward proudly! May I suggest: "Bachmann 2012: Lock The Gates On Barbarians!"