Early this morning, openly gay “barbarians” demonstrated in front of Marcus Bachmann’s clinic.
The protestors entered the waiting room, chanting “You can’t pray away the gay --- baby, I was born this way!” Throwing glitter around the reception area, the group caused quite a stir. Nick Espinosa, who organized the protest, also had a hand in the glittering of Newt Gingrich and Mr. Bachmann’s wife, the Republican Presidential frontrunner.
This harassment follows an online video, in which Marcus Bachmann referred to homosexuals as “barbarians” who “need to be educated.” Bachmann claims that the video was doctored. His original statement referred to children, not homosexuals, and “Point of View” host Penna Dexter agreed that “Bachmann clearly used the word ‘barbarians’ to refer to children.”
While the clinic does “treat homosexuality,” Bachmann says, “we don’t have an agenda or a philosophy of trying to change someone,” and the remedy “is at the client’s discretion.”
This baseless attack joins the threat to the Federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in the Senate this week. After President Obama declared his refusal to support the “unconstitutional” DOMA in court, a member of his Justice Department rejected a federal ban on spousal benefits on the grounds that it, too, was unconstitutional.
Rejecting “tradition, morals and procreation as justifications for marriage restrictions,” the court filing claimed that the ban “was motivated in substantial part by animus toward gays and lesbians and their intimate relationship.”
Furthermore, when the House of Representatives took up the defense of DOMA, the Human Rights Campaign responded with a boycott. The House chose former U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement, now a partner at King & Spalding, so the Human Rights Campaign decided to boycott his entire law firm, and discourage lawyers from working there. When King & Spalding pulled out, however, Paul Clement stayed in the fight.
While glitter attacks seem rather childish and humorous, national boycotts do not have a ‘fun’ side. In their zeal for “Civil Rights,” gay activists have overlooked other people’s basic rights: property and legal defense.
http://minnesotaindependent.com/84976/bachmanns-clinic-gets-glittered-over-ex-gay-therapy-charges/
http://www.startribune.com/politics/statelocal/125610083.html?page=1&c=y
http://articles.sfgate.com/2011-07-07/news/29745932_1_marriage-rights-couples-heterosexual-marriage
http://www.frc.org/op-eds/profile-in-courage-defending-marriage-paul-clement
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