Michele Bachmann

Bachmann Gets Asked: 'As President, Would You Be Submissive To Your Husband?'

Eric Kleefeld | August 11, 2011, 11:09PM

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN)

Debate host Byron York asked Michele Bachmann about her past quotes that she became a tax lawyer at her husband's insistence, citing Biblical passages that a wife should be "submissive" to her husband.

"As president, would you be submissive to your husband?" York asked -- prompting vociferous booing from the audience.

"Thank you for that question, Byron," Bachmann responded, to applause. "Marcus and I will be married for 33 years this September 10th. I'm in love with him, I'm so proud of him. And what submission means to us -- if that's what your question is -- is respect. I respect my husband...and he respects me as his wife. that's how operate our marriage. We respect each other, we love each other."

Bachmann then added that together, she and her husband had built a business, raised their children, and raised 23 foster children. "I'm very proud of him."

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Bachmann Declares Husband Off Limits In Campaign -- After Slamming Michelle Obama In '08

Benjy Sarlin | July 28, 2011, 3:28PM

Michelle Obama and Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN)

Michele Bachmann isn't happy with the attention her husband, Marcus Bachmann, has been getting in the press lately over allegations his clinic practices gay conversion therapy. In fact, she thinks he should be kept out of the campaign entirely.

"I am extremely proud of my husband, I have tremendous respect for for him," Bachmann said at a luncheon in DC on Thursday. "I am running for the presidency of the United States. My husband is not running for the presidency. Neither are my children, neither is our business, neither are our foster children."

But Bachmann has a very different take when it comes to other candidates' spouses: She's repeatedly attacked Michelle Obama in the harshest terms and specifically challenged the press to join in on her condemnations.

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Michele Bachmann

Michele Bachmann: My Husband Is Off-Limits

Evan McMorris-Santoro | July 28, 2011, 1:38PM

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) says that questions about her husband's controversial Christian counseling center, as well as her husband's controversial views on homosexuality, are not pertinent to her presidential campaign.

Asked about the so-called "reparative therapy" techniques performed at Marcus Bachmann's clinic, Bachmann told an audience today that her husband was off-limits as far as her run for the White House goes.

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GOProud

Conservative Gay Leader To LGBT Glitterers: You're Not Helping

Evan McMorris-Santoro | July 22, 2011, 1:06PM

Chris Barron, leader of the gay tea party-leaning group GOProud, is not amused by the string of glitter attacks LGBT activists have been carrying out over the past few months.

The latest was in Minnesota, where a group of activists dressed up like "barbarians" and dumped glitter all over the waiting room at Marcus Bachmann's Christian counseling clinic. The activists were protesting the gay reparative therapy Bachmann's clinic engages in, as well as the ardent anti-gay rights stances Bachmann and his wife, presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, have taken in public.

But Barron says the protests are just making it easier for homophobia to persist.

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Marcus Bachmann

LGBT Rights Activists Dress Like Barbarians, Glitter Bachmann Clinic

Evan McMorris-Santoro | July 21, 2011, 3:50PM

A "barbarian horde" of LGBT-rights activists traveled to Marcus Bachmann's counseling center in Minnesota Thursday, chanted lyrics from a Lady Gaga song, demanded to see Bachmman and when he didn't show up, glittered the waiting room.

The group was led by the same LGBT-rights activist who glittered Newt Gingrich back in May.

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Doctored Marcus Bachmann Tape? Nope, Says Blogger Who Posted It

Evan McMorris-Santoro | July 15, 2011, 1:26PM

U.S. Rep Michele Bachmann (R-MN) with husband Marcus Bachmann, launching her campaign for President. June 27, 2011.

The blogger who first surfaced Marcus Bachmann's "barbarians" audio from 2010 says in no uncertain terms that the clip of Rep. Michele Bachmann's (R-MN) husband saying gays "need to be disciplined" was not altered whatsoever.

"I didn't doctor a damn a thing," DumpBachmann.com blogger Ken Avidor told New York magazine.

Bachmann and one of the counselors at his clinic are distancing themselves from the controversial remarks by saying, in essence, that they never happened.

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Marcus Bachmann

The Barbarian Defense: Marcus Bachmann, Allies Say Embarrassing Tape Is A Fake

Evan McMorris-Santoro | July 15, 2011, 10:51AM

Marcus Bachmann

Critics of Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) have been having a field day with a 2010 recording of Bachmann's husband Marcus calling gay people "barbarians."

What does the embattled Marcus Bachmann have to say about it? He and his supporters claim the whole thing is made up.

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