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It’s no secret that Michele and Marcus Bachmann are rabidly anti-gay, and that Marcus Bachmann’s clinic – which has received $137,000 in Medicaid funding – allegedly performs reparative therapy. Nearly 22,000 people have signed HRC’s petition calling on GOP presidential candidates to publicly condemn this dangerous practice and the Bachmann’s support – add your voice to the growing ranks.

HRC Backstory this week highlighted some of Rep. Michele Bachmann’s more egregious statements about the LGBT community. In order to defend her thoughts on the LGBT community, Bachmann had this to say at the EdWatch National Education Conference in 2004...

"This isn’t an issue of equality or civil rights for gay people. This is going to take away civil rights and civil liberties from all,” Rep. Michele Bachmann warned Minnesotans of same-sex marriage in 2004. Flash forward to present-day, Bachmann’s perspective hasn’t much changed.

Rep. Michele Bachmann has spoken out for years against legislation that would provide any sort of protection of same-sex marriage and has condemned Obama’s support of the Respect for Marriage Act. Stand up against homophobia and tell Congress how marriage discrimination affects you.

Though Rep. Michele Bachmann is working now to reshape her public persona into that of a deficit-cutter, her popularity is piggy-backed on a reputation of anti-gay rhetoric.