Michele Bachmann: If Gay Men Want to Marry, They Should Marry a Woman!

Posted by Kevin Farrell on Dec 2, 2011 in Real Talk | 22 comments

Michele Bachmann offers a bizarre worldview to student Jane Schmidt

Michele Bachmann respects and admires all of you LGBT Americans, guys! We nasty gay bloggers and Gotcha! media types have the trailing GOP Presidential hopeful all wrong. Bachmann would love, Love, LOVE for gay men to get married. Just, you know, to a woman.

JANE SCHMIDT: One of my main concerns is government support for the LGBT community. So my question is what would you do to protect GSA’s in high school and support the LGBT community.

BACHMANN: Well, No. 1, all of us as Americans have the same rights. The same civil rights. And so that’s really what government’s role is, to protect our civil rights. There shouldn’t be any special rights or special set of criteria based upon people’s preferences. We all have the same civil rights.

JANE SCHMIDT: Then, why can’t same-sex couples get married?

BACHMANN: They can get married, but they abide by the same law as everyone else. They can marry a man if they’re a woman. Or they can marry a woman if they’re a man.

JANE SCHMIDT: Why can’t a man marry a man?

BACHMANN: Because that’s not the law of the land.

JANE SCHMIDT: So heterosexual couples have a privilege.

BACHMANN: No, they have the same opportunity under the law. There is no right to same-sex marriage.

JANE SCHMIDT: So you won’t support the LGBT community?

BACHMANN: No, I said that there are no special rights for people based upon your sex practices. There’s no special rights based upon what you do in your sex life. You’re an American citizen first and foremost and that’s it.

ELLA NEWELL, a junior at Waverly High School: Wouldn’t heterosexual couples, if they were given a privilege then, that gay couples aren’t, like given that privilege to get married, but heterosexual couples are given a privilege to get married?

BACHMANN: Remember every American citizen has the right to avail themselves to marriage but they have to follow what the laws are. And the laws are you marry a person of the opposite sex.

Big props to the eloquent Ms. Schmidt for standing up to the big, Bach wolf. You would think that a woman who’s home district has the highest child suicide rates in the entire country would be a bit more concerned with offering Gay-Straight Alliances safe havens for at-risk students, but alas, you’d think wrong.

(via Des Moines Register)

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=592796245 Trenton Flock

Her logic is completely circular. She does not provide a case for why the laws are the way they are, therefore it remains a special privilege for heterosexuals. By her logic, one could institute laws that state “You have the right to worship as you please, but you can only do so in a Mosque” or “You can vote as you please, but you can only register as Democrat,” neither of which would please her or her constituents. Whore.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000046153886 Matt Williams

Her argument is nullified by the fact that she’s making the statement that “they have to follow what the laws are” in a state where same-sex marriage is legal! Iowa!

http://twitter.com/DarklyDivine Serenity

I know, right. Obviously she’s forgotten that we (as an Iowan) passed that law several years ago. She’s dumb. And that’s being nice.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=194002341 Darek M

Clap if you are stupid.

Why on earth would she think a gay person would want to marry the opposite sex?

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=533791466 Amethyst Gilmour

It has been a historical standard for homosexuals to take part in marriages of convenience — see Oscar Wilde’s case, for example — though those were affectionate business partnerships at best, and stifling lies at worst. Wilde and his wife, while not lucky in the extreme infrastructure they lived in, at least got along very well, and he did love her enough to write her poetry and raise children with her.

However, giving gay people no option but to marry the opposite sex will result in either infidelity or a completely unfulfilled life, without a sense of real emotional partnership. Even with all the love and devotion Wilde afforded his wife of convenience, and his children, he ultimately resorted to homosexual affairs and was persecuted for it.

Alternately, we have the ANCIENT examples of homosexual philosophers from Greece and Rome, who often took younger male lovers as their students and pitied the women in their lives for lack of intellect. Marriage to a woman was seen as a duty; the woman was property that a man of stature should possess and procreate with, but a man’s deeper and more valid associations with other men were none of her business.

Is that what we want to go back to — treating marriage as a social obligation in which women are possessions and signs of stature, necessitating infidelity or denying citizens’ right to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness?

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=194002341 Darek M

I do know many gay people myself that married a women in the past, and they did care for them and their well-being but they said it was really because it was safe, a way to hide how they really were in fear of one being arrested, or hurt. I think that is true in history too. I think if you found Oscar Wilde in a state today that was more socially acceptable of a gay person he would never of married his wife. I guess we can thank a bigotry history for such beautiful words of Oscar Wilde.

http://twitter.com/DarklyDivine Serenity

As soon as I watched it I was instantly pissed. I should not watch these things first thing in the morning. And here I thought Sarah Palin was bad, this woman is a friggin nut case! She doesn’t give a “straight” answer. If I would have been there and sat by one of those people clapping I would have backhanded them. LOL! ”Oh sorry.. my clapped slipped on your face! My bad!”
http://www.facebook.com/will235brn William MacRyan Brown

She makes no sense
http://www.facebook.com/people/Erica-Cook/100000628613592 Erica Cook

We have the same rights? When did this happen?
http://twitter.com/kpringologist Kindra Pring

You know what else used to be “law of the land” Michele? That you had to marry people of the same color. Y’know what, laws change.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001961384996 Steve Cardinal

Another law of the land was that women could not vote or hold office. Now that that has changed, why can’t an intelligent woman run?

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=513446327 Jason Parry

Oh sure….tell gay men to marry women! Then they can end up just like my dad, getting married to a woman, having 2 kids only to then realize that he was living a lie and end up divorcing his wife, causing her emotional distress and causing his children to grow up without a father. Good going Bachmann!

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001961384996 Steve Cardinal

her husband did… as long as he doesn’t get caught with another man, she doesnt care though.

http://www.facebook.com/mark.fey Mark Fey

His trips to Mexico aren’t a give away?

http://www.facebook.com/people/Grey-Diamond/1547664306 Grey Diamond

Americans…. sigh. Yep thats what happen when you drop your baby on the head, he end up doing politic in U.S.A
henry tran

i would have loved to yell is that what ur husband did when she said that gay people should marry the opposite sex
Gay Shark

I really hope someone glitters her and FAST
http://www.facebook.com/EvanAMartin Evan Aston Martin

Well she did marry her husband, Marcus…
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001961384996 Steve Cardinal

saying the same thing over and over doesn’t make it true…
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Anonymous

Why would Michelle want to subject a straight woman to a marriage with a man who is incapable of being sexually attracted to her?

Oh wait…MICHELLE is already in such a marriage herself!
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http://www.facebook.com/people/Virgo-Elizabeth-LaVierge/1181809716 Virgo Elizabeth LaVierge

Holy Crap, this Bachman woman is stupid. It’s sort of funny, in a sad way..
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YKNMNICXFJGUNWVIRGEAMD63ME BrandonM

“No, I said that there are no special rights for people based upon your sex practices.”

Yes, “Mrs.” Bachmann, there are “special rights for people based upon your sex practices.” If your sex practices are heterosexual, you can get married to one of your “sex practices” partners. That is the very definition of special rights, granting a right to heterosexuals that you aren’t willing to grant to homosexuals.

The opportunity gay people want under the law has nothing to do with “sex practices”. It has to do with love. It has to do with family. It has to do with civil rights. It has to do with security. It has to do with 1,000 federal, state, and other benefits. And for people in the half-dozen Judeo-Christian faiths that embrace the idea of healthy, monogamous relationships between gay people, and so perform wedding ceremonies for gay couples and some that even ordain openly gay clergy, it has to do with their religious faith.

Ironic that two-millennium-old religions—that actually do have two or three sentences against gays in their founding documents—are able to see the light and change their laws to make gays equal, as scores of other Biblical passages generally state they should, yet our two-century-old government—that actually does not have any sentences against gays in its founding documents—cling to their bigotry and ignorance and actually cite the religions to justify why they wish to change their laws to more specifically disenfranchise gays, despite scores of other founding documents passages that generally state we are all equal.

No, actually, it’s not ironic, it’s un-American and un-Christian of these pious blowhards.

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