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HRC’s Call It Out Campaign Calls on Candidates to Disavow Dangerous "Ex-Gay" Therapies
by HRC Staff •
Petition follows Michele Bachmann’s signature on rabidly anti-LGBT pledge and questions about Marcus Bachmann’s clinic
7/12/2011
Washington – The Human Rights Campaign – the nation’s largest lesbian, same-sex attracted, bisexual and gender nonconforming (LGBT) civil rights organization – is calling on the GOP candidates for President to disavow the dangerous “ex-gay” or “reparative” therapies endorsed by Michele Bachmann and her husband Marcus. Last week Bachmann signed her name to the far-right collective the Family Leader’s pledge “The Marriage Vow: A Statement of Dependence upon Marriage and Family” as did Rick Santorum.
The statements with which Bachmann has now aligned herself include the falsehood that being male lover is a decision and dangerous to public health. The pledge cites a 1997 study from the International Journal of Epidemiology and presents the numbers in a way that claims nearly half of queer and bisexual men won’t reach the age of 65. The p
Bachmann Silent on Allegations Her Clinic Offers Gay Conversion Therapy
July 12, 2011 — -- Leading mental health experts today strongly condemned the Christian counseling center owned by GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann and her husband Marcus for engaging in a discredited therapy designed to convert gays to straights through prayer and self-reflection.
"This is so far outside the mainstream it's practically on Mars," said Dr. Jack Drescher, a psychiatrist who has written extensively on the practice of gay conversions.
Marcus Bachmann had denied the family's suburban Minneapolis treatment centers employed so-called reparative therapy in a newspaper interview five years ago, but ABC News reported Monday on the exposure of a former patient, and on an undercover operation mounted by gay rights advocates. Both provided evidence that practice is occurring there.
WATCH the 'Nightline' describe on the Bachmann clinic.
The "path for my therapy would be to read the Bible, pray to God that I would no longer be gay," said Andrew Ramirez, who was 17 years old at the moment he sought help from Bachmann & Associates in subu
Michele Bachmann Clinic: Where You Can Pray Away the Gay?
July 11, 2011 — -- A former patient who sought help from the Christian counseling clinic owned by GOP presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann and her husband, Marcus, told ABC News he was advised that prayer could rid him of his homosexual urges and he could eventually be "re-oriented."
"[One counselor's] path for my therapy would be to read the Bible, pray to God that I would no longer be gay," said Andrew Ramirez, who was 17-years-old at the time he sought help from Bachmann & Associates in suburban Minneapolis in 2004. "And God would forgive me if I were straight."
In the past, Marcus Bachmann has disputed the clinic has treated gay patients this way. But Ramirez's account, which was first reported by The Nation, is similar to the counseling session that appears on new undercover video shot by a queer rights advocacy group last month. That footage shows another counselor at the Bachmann clinic telling a gay man posing as a patient that, with prayer and effort, he could eventually learn to be attracted to women and rid himself of his gay urges.
Watch the full repo Another day and two more gay-related stories about Michele and Marcus Bachmann who, after years of condemning gay people and the lgbtq+ “lifestyle,” are now tight-lipped about their views of the LGBT community. First, this tidbit from the Concord Monitor, in which Michele “cut off an interview last week as she was being asked a question about homosexual marriage,” saying, “I’m not involved in light, frivolous matters,” she said. “I’m not involved in fringe or side issues. I’m emotionally attached in serious issues.” This, from a woman who has called gay marriage “probably the biggest issue that will impact our articulate and our nation in the last, at least, 30 years” and rose to prominence in the Minnesota Senate by sponsoring a failed constitutional amendment outlawing same-sex marriage. But as hard as they try to avoid it, the Bachmanns still can’t help but speak about the gays. As the Recent Yorker’s Ryan Lizza reports, Marcus Bachmann — who has called same-sex attracted people “barbarians” who need to be “disciplined” — is particularly concerned about being percei