Marcus Bachmann

“The truth is God has designed our eyes to be attracted to the woman’s body,” a counselor was caught telling gay man. “I think it’s possible to be totally free of this.”

Minnesota Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka killed a bill that would have outlawed the dangerous practice of trying to turn kids straight.

The former Congresswoman known for her wacky and weird take on politics just can’t get enough of Trump.

Retiring Minnesota Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann’s husband Marcus is defending the dangerous, pseudo-scientific, practice of sexual orientation conversion therapy that he conducts at his clinic Counseling Care, previously known as Bachmann & Associates.

EDINA, Minn. — An openly gay University of Minnesota political science major is spearheading a petition asking Minnesota’s Gov. Mark Dayton and state lawmakers to pass a law in the upcoming 2014 legislative session that would ban “ex-gay” therapy for minors.

CLARION, Iowa — Republican presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann, stumping in Iowa with her husband Marcus on Sunday, dismissed a self-described “gay-friendly Iowan,” telling her that the Kinsey Report has “been a myth for several years.”

Marcus Bachmann has decided upon his course of action if he were to become the first “first gentleman” to occupy the White House — reaffirming the discriminatory notion that ones sexual orientation can exclude you from one of the most valued institutions of society.

In June, I penned a column, “The Fall of the Ex-Gay Myth,” which predicted that so-called “ex-gay” programs would crumble from internal rot. “It’s time for the discredited ‘ex-gay’ myth to simply go away and be rightfully viewed as an experiment that was tried and failed,” I wrote at the time. In the months since this column was written the decline of these “pray away the gay” organizations has only accelerated.

In the past two years, there has been an epidemic of eight suicides in Minnesota’s Anoka-Hennepin school district. Anti-gay bullying may have played a role in half of the suicides…

Sometimes I’m amazed by the rapid success of the gay rights movement. Homosexuality, the love that dare not speak its name, is now spoken freely, while homophobia has quickly become the hate that dare not speak its name – at least if one is running for higher office.