Bachmann Plays Victim Card: ‘The Rhetoric Is Far Worse Against People Who Stand Up For Traditional

[William769]

Marriage’

Michele Bachmann — the woman who in 2004 described the gay “lifestyle” as “sad” and “part of Satan” — feigned ignorance at the harshness of her own anti-gay rhetoric and told CNN’s Piers Morgan last night that “the rhetoric is far worse against people who stand for traditional marriage. If anyone gets attacked in this country, it’s people who stand for traditional marriage”:


MORGAN: Yes. But you see, I was also taught to respect and be tolerant towards people who didn’t agree with those beliefs. And I think that America, with this movement on gay marriage and so on, just has to come a time when people who have strong religious beliefs, like you, like Kirk Cameron, actually show people like the gay community tolerance and a bit of slack, and say, I don’t agree with it, but nor am I going to demonize you. That’s all I’m getting at.

http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2012/03/06/438427/bachmann-victim-lgbt/

[The Blue Flower]

1. Examples?

nt

[joeybee12]

2. Examples are like facts!

Tools of Satan!

[niyad]

3. orwell would be so proud--war is peace, down is up, hatred is tolerance. . .

[JBoy]

4. Great comment at the link

OK, let's look at the "victimhood" scoreboard here.

Gay people: Denied the right to marry, denied jobs in some cases, couldn't serve openly in the armed forces until just recently, denied communion, beaten up, bullied to the point of suicide, etc. etc.

Anti-gay people: Being disagreed with.

[William769]

7. +1000!

[shcrane71]

18. Thank You!

[snooper2]

5. Damn I thought that vile ignorant excuse for a woman had crawled back under her rock

Who the fuck at CNN pulled on her chain and WHY you assholes!

[samsingh]

6. what a pitiful liar she is

or is she stupid?

[hifiguy]

9. Take it from a Minnesotan, she's dumber than a box of rocks

and actually believes every word-turd that comes out of her noisehole.

[samsingh]

15. she's soooo repulsive

[Sheepshank]

8. good Lords, the persecuted Christian thing.....again? n/t

[ieoeja]

10. F--- tolerance.

George Washington's Letter to Touro Synagogue (1790):

“All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship. It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people, that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights.”


Just as President Washington assured the synagogue that Jews were full and equal citizens of the United States, so it should be with gays. It is not up to people like Bachmann to decide if they tolerate gays or not. Gays are American citizens entitled to equal treatment. End of discussion.

[KeepItReal]

11. Piers Morgan (who should be facing phone hacking charges) was weak

He had Bachmann cornered with her own words and she just gave him a "next subject". He tried to get back on topic, but she flipped it on him and played both the i'm-above-all-that and the i'm-the-real-victim cards.

[Enrique]

12. yes, she's the victim

WARNING: graphic gay-bashing video:

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[DCKit]

13. The rhetoric of more advanced life-forms... What REALLY killed the dinosaurs? nt

[EC]

14. But the violence is all on the gays that they

rail against because of their railing. We don't become violent agaisnt them nor do we incite violence like they do.

[sarcasmo]

16. This sounds much like the christians are picked on talking point.

[gatorboy]

17. Hey that reminds me!

Shouldn't we be preparing for the War on Easter soon?

[sarcasmo]

19. Look out Easter Bunny