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Does it call for smearing people on the basis of flimsy conspiracy
theories? That’s what Bachmann just did to Huma Abedin, an aide to
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, by essentially suggesting she might
be a mole for the Muslim Brotherhood.
Does it endorse scaring young women away from immunizations that could spare them serious illness? Bachmann did that during her memorable presidential campaign, when she blithely drew an unsubstantiated link between a vaccine for the human papillomavirus and mental retardation.
Does it encourage gratuitously divisive condemnations
of Barack Obama as “anti-American,” one of many incendiary phrases in
her attacks against him in 2008?
And does it compel a war against
homosexuality waged with the language and illogic she uses?
She has said that gay men and lesbians are dysfunctional products of
abuse and agents of “sexual anarchy,”
and when the singer and songwriter
Melissa Etheridge was battling breast cancer years ago, Bachmann
helpfully chimed in:
“This may be an opportunity for her now to be open to some spiritual
things, now that she is suffering with that physical disease. She is a
lesbian.”
Bachmann’s concept of Christian love brims with hate, and she has a deep
satchel of stones to throw. From what kind of messiah did she learn
that?"