A prominent Iowa social conservative group called “The Family Leader” has convinced Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann to sign a pledge to uphold “traditional marriage” and ban all forms of pornography.
Michele Bachmann
Bachmann signed the pledge Thursday, becoming the first Republican presidential candidate to do so. Tim Pawlenty was said to be “reviewing” the pledge.
The pledge includes 14 bullet points that signers must agree to. Signers agree to oppose any “redefinition of marriage,” and the pledge likens same-sex couples to polygamists and adulterers:
“Vigorous opposition to any redefinition of the Institution of Marriage . . . through statutory, bureaucratic, or court imposed recognition of intimate unions which are bigamous, polygamous, polyandrous, same-sex.”
The pledge also asserts that homosexuality is a choice, not an innate characteristic.
A footnote also indicates the belief that homosexuality is a public health risk akin to second hand smoking that decreases life expectancy.
Signers agree that female pornography should be banned in an effort to protect women from “seduction into promiscuity and all forms of pornography . . . and other types of coercion or stolen innocence.”
It appears that the homophobe who wrote the pledge decided that banning porn involving men would be unnecessary.
Makes sense; if we banned gay porn, how on earth would the homophobic closet cases survive?
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Absolutely disgusting! Big business and religious organizations may have the money…but we have the vote. If every gay person in this country votes against this kind of bigotry…we can literally change the world!
Welcome to Iran. We enforce Sharia Law here. Human Rights are subject to personal beliefs and out dated traditions.
I dont see how anyone running for office in this country can sign something that is ANTI anyone.. thats just ludicrous. First of all a ban on all forms of pornography, LOL good luck since that would be IMPOSSIBLE. Secondly to say you are anti part of your general population to me just baffles me.. even if being gay IS a condition as they say it is.. they wouldnt be anti CANCER patients or anti MENTAL disabilities.. to say you are ANTI gay implies that isnt in fact a condition as they have been saying.. but a way of life. There is hypocrisy all over this nutcase.
btw her husband is about as deep in the closet as he can get…
=.= Why woman… why! you’re a girl you’re suppose to be smarter than the straight men running for president… you’re blowing it girl! BLOWING IT!!! No pun intended Teehee XD
She’s such a dumbass…and her husband is 300x gayer than I am. lol she’s so clueless
and people wonder why I hate politicians!!!!
“The fact of the matter is that most people who buy and read pornography are not at all dangerous and never commit antisocial offenses. So I’m not about to advocate restricting the First Amendment for the sake of the small percentage of men who consume pornography to bolster their violent and misogynistic conduct.” John Douglas, former FBI Behavioral Analyst. (1997). Journey Into Darkness (p. 125).
This bitch is crazy… Excuse my words.. No one this ignorant should be running for office… We all need to have our voices heard and make our votes count and vote for a candidate that will listen to us…
Oh, I’m sure they had to convince her. Probably had to hold her down and sit on her and demand she sign.She has not clue one about constitutional law and worse yet, doesn’t care. I hope all the Independents are getting a good dose of this.
Michele Bachmann Who????
And this is why if she wins the election, I’m leaving this country.
Damn, and I thought our politicians in Canada were crazy, you guys sure do have the cream of the crop down there…
Who wants to bet that someone will dredge up an old nudie pic of her? At least, I hope they do…to help discredit her. I also hope that her husband gets pulled, kicking and screaming out of the closet. It would be nice if whomever he’s paid off to be quiet would develop a conscience, step forward and spill the beans.
In Canada, we have, and take for granted, equal rights for the LGBT communities, no one would blame you guys if you took your educations and assets and moved north – we have land a plenty and we’re nice folk..
Reading about all these extremist conservatives fighting against marriage rights for all under the banner of defending marriage…defending it against whom or what??? How does a gay couple’s legal marriage affect theirs? It’s not as if a lavender clad gestapo troop is going to march into their homes and make them trade out their spouses for same gendered ones
Is that like the Virginity Pledge? We know how long those last. . .
She has absolutely no chance of being elected.
Good thing banning gay porn is not in the pledge. Otherwise, ehat would Marcus Bachmann use to masturbate with?
Neanderthal Creed?
She’s not even from Iowa, she’s MY representative (I say this shamefully) in MINNESOTA.
Gays are so awful, but a bitch could have a hand in the slaying of her child and get off Scot free… Hm I think if kids are still bein killed, abducted, raped and exploited in this country than they should shut the Hell about what makes us wet, seeing as how its all about sex to them. The day my daughter can walk outside and I don’t have to worry a bout bullies, drugs, rape, abduction, guns and other weapons, etc than ill be convinced that someone’s doing something for the American “family”. Cause all this anti gay nonsense is basically another way to be a bully and a distraction from the real things we should be worrying about. Humans fear what they don’t understand so instead understanding it let’s just screw up generations of ppl with homophobia and destroy ourselves instead of working together because “gays” are dangerous. Last I checked it was heterosexuals beating on and killing us while we are over here just taking it and killing ourselves. Obviously its not a choice if a CHILD thinks he has to KILL himself because he can’t change. What the fuck is that doing for the “family”. Maybe we should start laws against baby daddy bs maybe from now in if a man gets a woman pregnant he has to do a little more than pay child support cause pretty soon blacks, whites, gay straight isn’t gonna matter the entire friggin country us gonna be related because if heterosexual men thinkin its ok to just impregnate anyone I want cause all I gotta do is a little jail time or pay cash. WHO’S spreading diseases? WTF!
-sigh- This woman needs to stay out of politics.
@andrea: she is a mn representative, but she was born in iowa
Another Presidential candidate who will ridicule the US flag and make the world laugh… After Palin, now comes Bachmann.
This woman scares me. Like, more than Palin. At least everyone could see how silly Palin is. This one convinces people that she’s smart. VERY DANGEROUS.
C-R-A-Z-Y.
Because I needed more reasons to hate her.
bitch
B-A-T-S-H-I-T C-R-A-Z-Y!!
Lol. what does pornography have to do with equal rights. I love the stupidity of our “leaders”
Our country isn’t actually stupid enough to elect this woman, is it? I think at least the no-porn thing will knock off about 45% of her potential votes.
Oh yeah, like banning pornography will work – are we going backwards or progressing forward? You have to ask yourself, what kind of culture creates these kind of whack jobs that the public considers leadership material?
Anti-Gay AND Ban ALL Porn?! Nooo! Crazy Bitch!
How is she going to reconcile that with being married to her closeted, self-hating gay husband?
I truly detest this… this… this thing called Michelle Bachmann.
so fucking bold! and horrible!
We need strong proof and personal confirmation from Bachman. This could be a ploy for increased support and votes.
Fuckin cra cra
The GOP can keep Iowa. We gays will go be fabulous somewhere else.
So glad all these people are so against those that identify as LGBT and would like to deny LGBT people same rights as those non identified as such. Sounds familiar…womans rights, slavery rights, black american rights, Native American Indian Rights and so on. All these PUREIST want to contral what others do! I HAVE TO ASK THE QUESTION WHY? DOES anybody else WANT TO KNOW WHY?
That’s some bullshit. Can’t say I didn’t see it coming though…lol.
and yet more scary witches are raised daily.
And people will probably be on her side for the anti-gay part, but people are gonna be pissed about the pornography part haha
Ewwww, and I thought she was awful before!!
Why am I not surprised? Oh yeah because she’s scurred… Thomas, I think we all know why already, simply they have hate in their hearts… They don’t like anyone who isn’t like them. I wonder what Jesus would say?
…HATEFUL, DISCRIMIATORY, IGNORANT, BIGOTED C*U*N*T!!!!!…
Heteros love their porn…even the right wing evangelicals!! They will have none of that! Her hypocrisy is truly amazing…remember the “nanny state” comments about breast feeding!?!? Less government in our daily lives?!?! Batshit is bipolar!
I would like to throw a pie at her face..
If this woman somehow gets elected into office, I foresee a large spike in people applying for Canadian citizenship.
eugh vile
Aw, but gayness and porn are my two favorite things…
This pledge is another STUPID idea!! Can someone.. PLEASE get Rid of these IDIOT female Republicans!!! I believe they are breeding these females just to irritate the TRUE AMERICANS! And it seems to be working. lol IF Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachmann weren’t so OLD.. I would say that they need to be FIXED.. lol
maybe Bachman & Palin are really aliens (and i mean, literally, extraterrestrial life forms, LOL) out to destroy america.
homosexuality is innate, ergo, same-sex marriage should be legal :)
We need to stop arguing over whether or not homosexuality is a choice; the moral status of an act is separate from the nature of it. We need to start showing that it is not “immoral” as these nuts claim it is. It is time to start destroying their illogical arguments, which is, honestly, incredibly easy.
The fact that so many “small-government” advocates are the same ones who wish to have federal bans on gay marriage, on pornography, on allowing those who are different to have their own happiness in the absence of harm to others, sickens me. Small government, to these people, means giving billions to the billionaires and taking from the lower classes, taking happiness away from those who are different in the name of their morals, preventing any useful changes to society because things are “just fine” now.