BACHMANN: GAY MARRIAGE IS LIKE PEARL HARBOR

[paulnolan]

 Michele Bachmann knows how to keep it classy when pushing her homophobic politics.

Back in 2004, as her home state of Minnesota was debating same-sex marriage, Bachmann sent a flier to constituents urging them to raise their voices against equality. And, to exert some hyperbolic pressure, she compared her warnings to a seaman, Orville Ethier, who

Comments

[professor_chaos]

I read a lot of that "proposal" and could not believe a member of my group...the species homo sapien that is...wrote anything that horrible. Or worse yet that any other member of my species would agree to anything like it.

... I can't.

[apocalypsos]

So here is a puppy.

Re: ... I can't.

[chipuni]

Thank you!

I needed that...

Re: ... I can't.

[smilingskull]

oh my god it looks like a stuffed animal WHERE CAN I GET ONE?

Re: ... I can't.

[caitiecait]

Oh my god! I want one.

Now that I've gotten the puppy out of the way ...

[apocalypsos]

I honestly wish this woman would just picket a funeral with a "God Hates Fags" sign already and get it over with.

[chipuni]

Errrr...

Uhmmm.......

I read a lot of fantasy. I read a lot of out there books. I've read Aleister Crowley (way overrated) and Robert Anton Wilson (funny). I've even read early Gnostic mystical writing.

And I STILL can't conceive of how Rep. Bachmann ties together gay marriage and the attack against Pearl Harbor.

Does she mean that every time two people of the same sex get married, four battleships sink? And if so... could I watch?

[caerfrli]

Crowley is purported to be Barbara Bush's real father.

[sephirajo]

If true, this explains so much.

[romp]

please expand on this

[beoweasel]

You are a type of Orville Ethier-a patriot looking to secure American freedoms.

Yes! Because allowing gays to marry is an attack...on our freedom? What, our freedom to hate gays?

[kittymink]

Yes.

[danger0usbeans]

If we aren't free to oppress other people, no one is free at all!