Bachmann supports intelligent design, privitization of Social Security..

[madmax]

Bachmann's positions include:

"Favors privatization of Social Security along the lines suggested by the Cato Institute.<60><61>
Supports both a Federal and State constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage and legal equivalent, and is a critic of any type of gay rights or civil unions for gay couples.
Supports President Bush's policies in Iraq and believes the military must "stay the course" there<62><63><64>
Favors leaving the nuclear attack option on the table in dealing with Iran<65>
Opposes minimum wage increases<66>
Some of Bachmann's local critics say she could be more accurately described as a Christian fundamentalist politician.<11> Appearing on the radio program "Prophetic View In The News" to promote her 2004 state capitol rally against same-sex marriage, Bachmann said that "God calls us to fall on our faces and our knees and cry out to Him and confess our sins. And I would just ask your listeners to do that now. Cry out to a Holy God."<67>

In support of a constitutional amendment she proposed to ban same-sex marriage,<68> Bachmann said that the gay community was specifically targeting children and that "our children...are the prize for this community."<67> Bachmann believes that people who are homosexual, lesbian, bisexual or transgender suffer from "sexual dysfunction" and "sexual identity disorders."<69>

Bachmann supports the teaching of intelligent design in public school science classes.<70> During a 2003 interview on KKMS Christian radio program "Talk The Walk", Bachmann said that evolution is a theory that has never been proven, one way or the other.<71> She co-authored a bill that would require public schools to include alternative explanations for the origin of life as part of the state's public school science curricula.<72> In October 2006, Bachmann told a debate audience in St. Cloud, Minnesota, that “there is a controversy among scientists about whether evolution is a fact or not...There are hundreds and hundreds of scientists, many of them holding Nobel Prizes, who believe in intelligent design.”<73>

Bachmann has been a longtime opponent of legal abortion. In 2006, Bachmann stated that she would vote to permit abortion in cases of rape and incest.<74> In the Senate, Bachmann introduced a bill proposing a constitutional amendment restricting state funds for abortion. The bill died in committee.<75>

More inlcuding the Chris Matthews interview: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Bachmann

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. check out her opponent's article on daily kos.

apparently her last appearance was like a dagger to the heart.

[madmax]

3. Do you have a link for that article? n/t

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. asketh, and thou shalt receive

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/18/2550/3286/381/634245

[ChairmanAgnostic]

5. and did I say that the article kicks ass?

NO, well I should have.

[rzemanfl]

2. Her bill died in committee. On Hardball last night. she started

a severe allergic internet reaction which will lead to her demise too.