{"id":471,"date":"2011-07-08T12:47:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T12:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theatheistrabbi\/2011\/07\/marcus-bachmann-the-man-to-whom-michele-is-submissive.html"},"modified":"2011-07-08T12:47:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T12:47:00","slug":"marcus-bachmann-the-man-to-whom-michele-is-submissive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theatheistrabbi\/2011\/07\/marcus-bachmann-the-man-to-whom-michele-is-submissive.html","title":{"rendered":"Marcus Bachmann, The Man To Whom Michele Is Submissive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Michele Bachmann, fundamentalist Christian candidate for the GOP, is aided in her run by her husband, Marcus.\u00a0 In case you haven\u2019t been paying attention, when it comes to gays and lesbians these are two seriously bigoted and hateful people.<\/p>\n

Now comes the news that Marcus made these comments<\/a> about gays on a radio show in May 2010:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to understand: Barbarians need to be educated. They need to be disciplined. Just because someone feels it or thinks it doesn\u2019t mean that we are supposed to go down that road. That\u2019s what is called the sinful nature. We have a responsibility as parents and as authority figures not to encourage such thoughts and feelings from moving into the action steps\u2026.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Whenever I hear this kind of language I\u2019m immediately suspicious that the speaker is trying to repress something of his own.\u00a0 But far be it from me to accuse anyone of being a closet case.\u00a0 I\u2019ll let others do that for me<\/a>:<\/p>\n

James Urbaniak of The Venture Brothers \u2026 Tumbled<\/a>: \u201cIt\u2019s pretty much a given that the most vociferously homophobic men are usually repressing something. But, oh Mary, Michele Bachmann\u2019s husband Marcus takes the ever-loving cake. He\u2019s a cure-the-gay therapist out of a John Waters movie. I haven\u2019t seen flames this high since the last California wildfire\u2026\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This brings up my other point about this schmuck.\u00a0 He runs a counseling company that engages in the highly discredited (and potentially dangerous) practice of \u201creparative therapy.\u201d\u00a0 This is otherwise known as \u201cpraying away the gay.\u201d\u00a0 Mama Michele subscribes to this.\u00a0 A gay Minnesota state senator reports that she used to pray over his empty desk.<\/p>\n

(It might also interest her Tea Party buddies to know that Marcus\u2019 counseling company accepted $137,000 in Medicaid payments.\u00a0 You will recall that Mama Michele has placed Medicaid squarely in her political cross-hairs. \u00a0Her family has also accepted a quarter million dollars in farm subsidies.)<\/p>\n

Now Marcus is not just Michele\u2019s screwy husband.\u00a0 He is her chief strategist.\u00a0 The two of them also subscribe to the idea that a good Christian wife should be obedient and submissive to her husband.\u00a0 I assume this would have political consequences.<\/p>\n

It is high time that the GOP decide just what kind of party it wants to be.\u00a0 Is it a political party concerned with the best interests of a pluralistic, secular nation?\u00a0 Or is it the champion of a bigoted new theocracy?\u00a0 They can level all the charges that they want to at Democrats, but no one in that party is promoting a Christian nation ideology.<\/p>\n

This is not a new trend.\u00a0 It has now become an ingrained Republican tradition.\u00a0 It began decades ago with Reagan\u2019s pact with the Moral Majority.\u00a0 The Jewish Republicans that I know seem to be indifferent, brushing her aside (along with her fellow fanatics Palin, Huckabee and company) in favor of the Romneys and Pawlentys (who, by the way, also pander to the religious right).\u00a0 In the case of many Republican Orthodox Jews, they are actually quite thrilled by religiously fanatical candidates like Bachmann.\u00a0 (I have reliable sources on the this!)<\/p>\n

Matt Taibbi, in his Rolling Stone expose of Bachmann<\/a>, put it this way:<\/p>\n

Bachmann\u2019s story, to hear her tell it, is about a suburban homemaker who is chosen by God to become a politician who will restore faith and family values to public life and do battle with secular humanism. \u2026Whatever she is, she\u2019s no joke.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

She is no joke.\u00a0 And this secular humanist has decided to take on her challenge to do battle.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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