Michele Bachmann: America's Greatest Homophobe

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Michele Bachmann, my love life is none of your business

Michele Bachmann: where do I begin? First off, she represents Minnesota in the United States House of Representatives. She is also the leading female candidate for the 2012 Presidential election. Bachmann is quite outspoken. She holds some very radical views, and is a supporter of the all too well-known Tea Party. To get to the point: she’s a very conservative Republican.

For years, a major part of the Republican Party platform is to oppose same-sex marriage, including civil unions. This isn’t a really big surprise, given the fact that the Republican Party has a huge evangelical Christian base, and we all know how Christians (at least historically) feel about homosexuals being able to marry (I can just hear their hate speeches at this moment).

Now, I do not mean to demonize all Christians, especially since quite a lot actually endorse same-sex marriage. At the Pride Parade in Chicago this past year, there were a lot of churches coming out to show their support of equality for same-sex couples, including many Pentecostal and United Church of Christ groups.

Given that Bachmann is currently running for the highest office in the land, we are now beginning to see where she stands on social issues. Being the mother of like 36 children (biological and adopted), she has come out against termination of pregnancy rights. Knowing her track-record on social issues, and her voting record, we have a good estimate of what her stance will be on same-sex marriage. The organization Family Leader has asked candidates to sign a pledge that affirms that, “. . . gay men are a public health risk, that gay parents are inferior to straight parents, and that homosexuality is a choice.”1 Really Michele? Her husband’s clinic even offers reparative therapy for homosexuals, which is unscientific and harmful!

This comes as no surprise since she is a Republican candidate. Michele has come out in support of a Constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. I was watching the Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC a few weeks ago, and she highlights the fact that the Republicans have wanted to amend the Constitution over 30 times! This is striking since Republicans tout that they want to hold the Constitution to a very high standard.

What does this have to do with anything? First, she is not the first person to come out against same-sex marriage. Second, her and many others’ reasoning is purely religious. I have not heard one even decent secular argument against same-sex marriage. We hear time and again that there is a Separation of Church and State, but when it comes to social issues, we have none of that. All we have are certain religious types going out of their way to legislate their beliefs onto Americans. What I want to hear are secular reasons against termination of pregnancy rights and same-sex marriage. Until then, politicians like Bachmann need to stop pandering to the religious right.

Any sane person realizes that same-sex marriage is an issue of equality, and until equality is realized for every American, it is time for us to fight. Many of my fellow atheists don’t see this as an issue they can get under, but it is. Since all of the arguments against same-sex marriage, etc., are of a purely religious nature, atheists should be one of the first on the line to combat such laws. Bringing this whole discussion back to Bachmann, we as atheists and Americans need to raise our voices and show people that what these politicians say and do are acts that are completely nonsensical.

Stand up. Be heard.



Originally posted by: 
Tim


Photo:
Michelle Bachmann speaking  by markn3tel, available under a Creative Commons Attribution license.