Michele Bachmann's Anti-Gay Rhetoric Is 'Hurtful,' Stepsister Helen LaFave Says

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http://www.ontopmag.com/article.aspx?id=9883&MediaType=1&Category=26

Michele Bachmann's gay stepsister Helen LaFave has said Bachmann's anti-gay rhetoric is “hurtful.”

Bachmann, who has positioned herself as the most socially conservative candidate in the GOP presidential field, regularly boasts of her sponsorship as a Minnesota senator of a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage in the state, has said she would reinstate “Don't Ask, Don't Tell,” the just ended policy that banned gay and bisexual troops from serving openly, and has defended her clinic's attempts to “cure” gay people of their sexuality. The two Minnesota-based clinics are run by her husband Marcus Bachmann.

Bachmann, who in 2004 likened being gay to “personal bondage, personal despair and personal enslavement,” has denied accusations that she's anti-gay, telling PEOPLE that she's “no better than anyone else.”

Marcus Bachmann added, “There's never been a bias.”

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1. Personal bondage, personal despair, and personal enslavement

I wonder how many STRAIGHT couples in a bad marriage would describe their lives as that? :evilgrin:

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2. Actually, I find it interesting that Bachmann instantly starts thinking about words like "bondage."

And by "interesting" of course I mean "disturbing." Kind of like when her husband started talking about gays and immediately went to images of "barbarians" and "discipline."