Michele Bachmann's husband Marcus: My clinic is not anti-gay & recording is fake
Fri. July 15, 2011 6:43 AM by GoPride.com News Staff
Minneapolis -
Dr. Marcus Bachmann, husband of GOP presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn), said that his therapy clinics are not anti-gay, and also said a radio recording that seems to show him calling gays barbarians has been doctored.
"We don't have an agenda or a philosophy of trying to change someone," Marcus Bachmann told the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.
Marcus Bachmann said a recording of his voice that's floating around online (and was reported here on the GoPride.com Network) has been edited, and that when he said "barbarians need to be educated; They need to be disciplined," he was referring to children.
The Star-Tribune said no original recording of the show, which was recorded in May 2010, seems to exist, so there's apparently no way to check.
Rep. Michele Bachmann signed a pledge last week that denounced gay marriage and called for a constitutional ban against it.
The pledge included controversial language in its preamble that implied that black children had better family conditions during slavery than today.
There are some who claim that Dr. Bachmann is actually a closeted gay man.
He is also under fire because his wife claims to be opposed to federal subsidies, even though the therapy clinics and the family's farming business have accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in subsidies over the past decade.
Dr. Bachmann said the subsidies that have gone to his clinics were for Medicare and Medicaid patients, and that the $24,000 the feds and state spent to train his staff on substance abuse counseling ended up costing him money, because they weren't working with clients during that time.
"We don't have an agenda or a philosophy of trying to change someone," Marcus Bachmann told the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.
Marcus Bachmann said a recording of his voice that's floating around online (and was reported here on the GoPride.com Network) has been edited, and that when he said "barbarians need to be educated; They need to be disciplined," he was referring to children.
The Star-Tribune said no original recording of the show, which was recorded in May 2010, seems to exist, so there's apparently no way to check.
Rep. Michele Bachmann signed a pledge last week that denounced gay marriage and called for a constitutional ban against it.
The pledge included controversial language in its preamble that implied that black children had better family conditions during slavery than today.
There are some who claim that Dr. Bachmann is actually a closeted gay man.
He is also under fire because his wife claims to be opposed to federal subsidies, even though the therapy clinics and the family's farming business have accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in subsidies over the past decade.
Dr. Bachmann said the subsidies that have gone to his clinics were for Medicare and Medicaid patients, and that the $24,000 the feds and state spent to train his staff on substance abuse counseling ended up costing him money, because they weren't working with clients during that time.