Marcus Bachmann
Marcus Bachmann, husband of presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann, now says that comments in which he referred to gays as “barbarians” who need to be “educated” and “disciplined” were “doctored.”
In an interview with the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Marcus Bachmann defended his family-owned Christian counseling business against allegations that it performs controversial gay-to-straight “repairative” therapy.
Bachmann didn’t deny that he or other counselors at Bachmann & Associates have attempted to convert gay patients, but he said it is not a special interest of the business and would only be attempted at the client’s request.
But as for an audiotape circulating the internet of a 2010 interview with Penna Dexter on the “Point of View” Christian radio talk show, Bachmann denies calling gays “barbarians,” and said the recording must have been “doctored.”
“I was talking in reference to children. Nothing, nothing to do with homosexuality. That’s not my mindset. That’s not my belief system. That’s not the way I would talk,” Bachmann said.
MSNBC has a clip of the interview where Bachmann is speaking about homosexuality for a full two minutes — uninterrupted by editing — answering Dexter’s question of what to do when a child tells a parent that they may think they are gay:
Marcus Bachmann, who runs Bachmann & Associates Inc. out of clinics in Lake Elmo and Burnsville, told the Star Tribune that his treatment business is not focused on converting gays to heterosexuality.
But a recent investigation by “Truth Wins Out” — a non-profit organization that fights anti-LGBT religious extremism — suggests that the Bachmann’s clinic regularly practices the discredited clinical method designed to “cure” gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people.
The news has become problematic for his wife’s presidential campaign, highlighting Michele Bachmann’s long career of anti-gay sentiments.
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smdh
i wouldn’t be suprised either way
Gee – umm – I didn’t know my ‘wife’ was going to run for President or i would have edited myself earlier… ummm.. I mean, I didn’t mean to use the word “barbarian”…
yeah yeah yeah….
Screeeeeech!!!! Back peddle, Back peddle, Back peddle….
ARE YOU FCKIN KIDDING ME????????????????????????? AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gay
sounds like an attempt to shun away the ever present and dissecting press, eager to bring forth any lie you may try to tell, but this day in age…if you said it, YOU SAID it and they got you!! lol
@Randy, im thinking thats exactly what happened.
No wonder so many conservatives are so sexist…given this Bachmann woman is the “best” they have to offer for presidential candidate. At least Palin’s husband kept his damn mouth shut.
Give me a break.
Which one, Marcus? Do the gays need to be doctored, or are your comments doctored?
…B*U*L*L*S*H*I*T!!!… trying to “smoothe things over,” are we, Marcus dearrr???!!!…
What a Scumbag Lying Piece of Republican Shhttt…
funny thing about ‘barbarians’, they tend to be something you shouldn’t just run your mouth at…they tend to be rather vicious when it comes to the defense…not something you want to be in opposition of…people better stop taking the gays lightly, we don’t run in fear anymore.
Fake and gay.
…literally.
What a poser..
I don’t know why they bother. I could be wrong, but it seems to me that her supporters don’t have a huge reputation of even being tolerant of anyone outside themselves, let alone offended by comments made about others. I don’t see her losing anyone, whether these comments were “doctored” or not.
Barbarians destroyed the Roman Empire…and the Romans were just up to their ears in orgies, gay sex, and naked wrestling. Someone didn’t do their research about what barbarians were.
Just the fact that were talking about him~not her~ can’t be good for her campagin! So keep talkin closet queen! You big barbarian!
Yea right!!
Kinda makes you think then analyze but then w would never get to the point……………..GOT GAY!
Translation: “I meant it, but I sure didn’t mean to SAY it.”
Ummm…did I read that right…he claims that he was referring to CHILDREN in his comment? Sooooo, he thinks children are barbarians, or that GAY children are barbarians?
H8er
In fact, the full quote is pretty conclusive. He told Point of View Talk Radio that if a child confides in a parent that they might be gay, that parent should discourage the child from beinggay. He also said because of public schools, the number of homosexuals in America is increasing.
“We have to understand that barbarians need to be educated, need to be disciplined, ” Bachmann said. “And just because someone thinks[they're gay] or feels it doesn’t mean we need to go down that road.That’s what is called the sinful nature.”“We have a responsibility as parents and authority figures not to allowsuch feelings to move into action steps” such as homosexual relationships, he said. “What is our public school system doing today?They are giving full wide open doors to children not only encouragement to think it, but to encourage actions steps.”He concluded, “The percentage of homosexuals in this country is small but by these open doors we can see it is starting to increase.”
Additionally, in November of 2005, when the Bachmanns attended a “Minnesota Pastors’ Summit” organized by theconservative, antigay Minnesota Family Council at Grace Church in Eden Prairie, around 300 religious leaders attended the event,. Leading a session on the gaymarriage amendment was Michelle while Marcus offered a presentation titled “The TruthAbout the Homosexual Agenda.”
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This man resembles the bag in which a woman might find a product to use on a summer’s eve.
My reading of his comments was that he was referring to adolescents as barbarians who had to be educated/disciplined to not “experiment” lest they go down the “wrong” path.
Past regrets.
Of course he would say that — this man’s whole existence is based on DENIAL!!!!!!!!!!
yeah right
A LIAR and a self hating closet case…
yeah right, you keep on believing that…..idiot
lol….prove it Marcus
Maybe he said we were barbers.
like wife like husband
So he doesn’t think we’re barbarians?
And I’m Queen Marie of Romania.
Hey Marcus! How’s Narnia treatin’ ya these days?
Ooh! Ooh! Me, doctor! Discipline me! Put me over your knee for a spanking I’ll never forget! Please?
Riiiight…..
“Dr” Bachmann should be doctored – lets cut his balls off
@Denis Hoban—HAHAHAHAHA! Good one!
HE’s an Asshole plain and simple and his Wife is an Idiot!
I bet when the lights go out he and his skank wife go to the basement put on the dominatrix and sub gear and get all sorts of freaky.
And he isn’t a barbarian to try to backward america?
Fucking lying, bitch ass Republican
The racist husband of a racist wife who wants to be President…please motherfuckers.
What a Closet-Queen!!!!
Ummm, Marcus, I think you’re confusing the Star Trib with Fix News
Oh can I be Conan the barbarian?
Hell say anything to be first lady!