There’s been a lot of discussion this week about the incident that happened when a lesbian parent likely put her kid up to walking up to Michele Bachmann and saying “My mommy is gay and she doesn’t need fixing.” It’s, of course, a valid statement, but I do agree with those who have expressed reservations about sending a child in to do that sort of thing. Of course, since it did happen, it was newsworthy, especially for Michele Bachmann’s dismissive reaction. On The View this morning, the hosts discussed the incident, and strangely enough, it was resident conservative Elisabeth Hasselbeck who kindly explained how Michele Bachmann, despite her views, might have acted more like a grown-up, compassionate, adult human being toward this child. Elisabeth has gotten a lot better over the years on LGBT issues, but man, when a wingnut is being schooled by Elisabeth Hasselbeck, that’s got to suck.
[h/t David Badash]
Congresswoman Bachmann gay bashed that family. She should have embraced the mother and said “What a fine son you have!” Bachmann has no scruples about directing others to stigmatize children of gay parents. Here, she was faced with one of the victims of her social thinking and her bigot marching orders, and she demonstrated that she is the monster we know her to be. Besides Bachmann’s very ugly callousness towards this family as human beings there’s the fact that perpetuating the anti-gay bigotry helps Bachmann & Associates’ Christian Counseling Quack business. That such a w***e for bigotry trumpets herself as a “Christian” surely is a joke, given that whole churches ordain out married gay and/or lesbian ministers.
The question about children and advocacy has been answered by this weeks creation and distribution for sale, by the National Organization for Marriage, BABY BIBS that have the quote “I support Traditional Mazriage”.
@ Mykelb — the joke on NOM is that babies can’t even support their own heads let alone ‘traditional marriage’.
We must buy the NOM bibs up in bulk and distribute them to gay parents’ babies with the word “traditional” crossed out.
ya know Michele, if you can’t muster up the tact and diplomacy for a CHILD, how the hell do you expect us to believe you possess the ability to handle adult and/or international subtleties?
“but I do agree with those who have expressed reservations about sending a child in to do that sort of thing”
On the one hand I can see your point, but on the other, Martin Luther King once held a children’s march for civil rights that resulted in the children being hauled off to jail. The discrimination Michelle Bachman promotes harms children. She needs to hear that from them.
Why does everybody assume that the boy was “put up” to the comment he made to Bachmann? If he lives in a household that openly discusses issues, why couldn’t he have come up with this by himself? Not so surprising that he would be shy about speaking to this, supposedly important adult. I did not get the impression that his mother was pushing him, only encouraging him.
When I was 8, I had a voice. It was not refined, but it was political. I cared about justice and I cared about some political issues. My parents actively engaged in local political issues, read the newspaper every day, and then watched a hell of a lot of commentary on television. My grandmother clipped political articles and posted them on our refrigerator. I don’t think it is impossible that this kid had something to say or that his mom could have been an instigator. All that said, hell yeah even if she did. Bachman should have to face such awkward situations. She has built her reputation on destroying families. I don’t expect all responses to her attacks to be tidy or rational.