Student challenges Bachmann on marriage

Michele Bachmann showed her titanium spine at a cozy town hall meeting at the Waverly Pizza Ranch Wednesday.
In a true small-town spirit, she kept her introductory remarks short, giving her audience an opportunity to quiz her on issues of interest to them, and even held the microphone so her supporters' voices could be heard as audibly as hers.
But she did not hold back when a W-SR student asked her what she would do for the LGBT community as president and challenged her views on marriage.
"All of us as Americans have the same rights, we have the same civil rights," Bachmann told Jane Schmidt, 16, who identified herself as a member of the school's GSA, the alliance advocating for the rights of gay and straight students.
"There shouldn't be any special rights or any special set of criteria," Bachmann continued. "We all have the same civil rights. "
With a mother's patience and to applause, Bachmann reiterated her position that marriage is between a man and a woman.
This exchange, and a later one, from the same corner, that had to do with bullying and the practicing of religion in schools, demonstrated that even in a hometown format Bachmann does not shy away from controversy.

Read more in the 12/1 Waverly Democrat.
by Anelia K. Dimitrova, editorcft@gmail.com

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• LGBT
• gays and marriage
• Michele Bachmann
• Waverly

[ZebraDecoy]

EXCUSE ME BITCH WOULD U PLEASE STOP CLAPPING AFTER EVERY FUCKIGN SENTENCE.

[BrianTehSoonHock]

that womans a bitch. simply said. knows nothing about RIGHTS.

[animagigirl]

No special treatment! So people who are straight can have the right to marry who they love, while gays get scolded for giving a peck on the cheek in public?!?! That sounds like special treatment to me, bitch. I am in no way being bashing heterosexual marriage, I am straight but not narrow.

[afa86]

!??!?!??!?!!?!?!?!

[GlanceofGlory]

Bachmann better re-evaluate if she really figures all this stuff she believes in is true because I'm pretty sure someone like her should burn in hell for this. 

[Fnv321]

Damn I hate equality arguements. It's not about equality itself, it's about equal opprotunity. If a heterosexual couple can marry, homosexual couples should get that opprotunity, otherwise their unequal. Bachmann is saying things based on laws now, but, would her opinion change if the definiton changed? Probably not, becuase she is a homophobic bitch!

[P90x420]

i wish i could dick slap this hoe!

[brokenhaloxxx]

I guess this is what her husband did.

[needmorechronic]

Michele Bachman is such a stupid ignorant bitch

[heavenlyeve]

"because that's the law of the land." in other words, "just do what society tells you to."

[volt443]

I officially can't stand her.