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Michele Bachmann is first GOP presidential candidate to sign pledge banning gay marriage, porn.

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Hunter44

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:ols: She's done.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2011/07/08/2011-07-08_michele_bachmann_is_first_gop_presidential_candidate_to_sign_pledge_banning_gay_.html

No porn for you! At least if Michele Bachmann has anything to say about it.

The GOP congresswoman is the first presidential candidate to sign a pledge that calls for banning all forms of pornography and gay marriage. It also requires fidelity between spouses.

"The Marriage Vow" is being pushed by Family Leader, an influential Christian conservative Iowa group.

It also states that homosexuality is a choice and a health risk - and should be compared to polygamy or adultery.

The pledge also calls for rejecting Sharia law, appointing faithful constitutionalists as judges and opposing any effort to redefine marriage between man and woman.

Family Leader CEO Bob Vander Plaats has said his group would not endorse any candidates that did not sign the pledge.

"The Family Leader views this pledge as an important component needed to inform constituents about the personal stand that each presidential candidate takes regarding marriage," said Vander Plaats, who unsuccessfully ran for governor of Iowa in 2010.

"We believe that the candidates' positions on core values, such as marriage, correlate directly to his/her moral stances on energy issues, sound budgeting policies, national defense, and economic policies," he added.

Alice Stewart, a spokeswoman for Bachmann, told the Washington Post that the 54-year-old social conservative did not hesitate to sign the pledge.

"She has been married for over 30 years and has a strong marriage and faith," Stewart said.

No other candidates have signed the pledge yet.

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NoCalMike

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I love this country but find it extremely disappointing and borderline depressing a woman like this can manage to be an actual elected official. Even if conservatives agree with some of her core beliefs, the woman is a dolt. This isn't being sexist, she is just kind of not all there and has no shame in denying it everytime she gets exposed for just not knowing what the hell she is talking about.

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I surprised she didn't sign a pledge for death for homosexuals, like her preacher calls for on a regular basis. And her husband has an "ex-gay" therapy practice. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that scenario.

Michele, you can't save him. When he's having sex with you, he still thinks of men.

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Amazing how some of the loudest advocates for small government advocate big government when it comes to moral issues.Take big brother o0ut of business, but put him in the homes of everyone I don't like.

---------- Post added July-8th-2011 at 09:52 PM ----------

"We believe that the candidates' positions on core values, such as marriage, correlate directly to his/her moral stances on energy issues, sound budgeting policies, national defense, and economic policies,"

:ols::ols::ols::ols::ols::ols::ols::ols::ols:

the only comment this deserves.

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Amazing how some of the loudest advocates for small government advocate big government when it comes to moral issues.Take big brother o0ut of business, but put him in the homes of everyone I don't like.

This is very true.

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Here's an actual copy of the vow, for anyone who is interested:

http://www.politico.com/static/PPM187_marriage.html

The actual Family Leader site is throwing a Bandwidth Limit Exceeded error :silly:

I added the numbers for reference.

1) Personal fidelity to my spouse.

2) Respect for the marital bonds of others.

3) Official fidelity to the U.S. Constitution, supporting the elevation of none but faithful constitutionalists as judges or justices.

4) Vigorous opposition to any redefinition of the Institution of Marriage – faithful monogamy between one man and one woman – through statutory-, bureaucratic-, or court-imposed recognition of intimate unions which are bigamous, polygamous, polyandrous, same-sex, etc.

5) Recognition of the overwhelming statistical evidence that married people enjoy better health, better sex, longer lives, greater financial stability, and that children raised by a mother and a father together experience better learning, less addiction, less legal trouble, and less extramarital pregnancy.

7) Support for prompt reform of uneconomic, anti-marriage aspects of welfare policy, tax policy, and marital/divorce law, and extended “second chance” or “cooling-off” periods for those seeking a “quickie divorce.”

8) Earnest, bona fide legal advocacy for the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) at the federal and state levels.

9) Steadfast embrace of a federal Marriage Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which protects the definition of marriage as between one man and one woman in all of the United States.

10) Humane protection of women and the innocent fruit of conjugal intimacy – our next generation of American children – from human trafficking, sexual slavery, seduction into promiscuity, and all forms of pornography and prostitution, infanticide, abortion and other types of coercion or stolen innocence.

11) Support for the enactment of safeguards for all married and unmarried U.S. Military and National Guard personnel, especially our combat troops, from inappropriate same-gender or opposite-gender sexual harassment, adultery or intrusively intimate commingling among attracteds (restrooms, showers, barracks, tents, etc.); plus prompt termination of military policymakers who would expose American wives and daughters to rape or sexual harassment, torture, enslavement or sexual leveraging by the enemy in forward combat roles.

12) Rejection of Sharia Islam and all other anti-woman, anti-human rights forms of totalitarian control.

13) Recognition that robust childbearing and reproduction is beneficial to U.S. demographic, economic, strategic and actuarial health and security.

14) Commitment to downsizing government and the enormous burden upon American families of the USA‟s $14.3 trillion public debt, its $77 trillion in unfunded liabilities, its $1.5 trillion federal deficit, and its $3.5 trillion federal budget.

15) Fierce defense of the First Amendment‟s rights of Religious Liberty and Freedom of Speech, especially against the intolerance of any who would undermine law-abiding American citizens and institutions of faith and conscience for their

adherence to, and defense of, faithful heterosexual monogamy.

Honestly, these are pretty normal social conservative talking points. I think the banning pornography bit from the article is stretching the truth. All I can find in the vow on that subject is point 10, and that talks about it in the midst of a number of other wrongs against women.

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I think it is ridiculolus that these Christians feel they have to sign a pledge in which marital fidelity are the top TWO of the list.

And then there's the reminder in number five that you are having fine sex at home (Honestly, this is a pledge point? :ols: Really? You pledge to recognize that your wife is giving you good enough sex based on statistics? And of course, this is so you won't have to sweat too much about 1 & 2 #5 must be like shouting "serenity now!" every time your neighbor's hot wife walks in front of the window. Statistically I am having great sex at home! Statistically I am having great sex at home!. )

Didn't you make a vow in front of your God?

Isn't that enough?

Apparently not.

:ols:

Seriously, is there anything more pathetic than a religious zealot politician?

~Bang

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techboy

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Seriously, is there anything more pathetic than a religious zealot politician?

Politics provides a lot of competition on that front. :ols:

Winning!!!! OMG!!! That photo just screams crazy.

I propose a Bachmann-Howard Dean ticket.

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(Sorry TB, nothing personal. I try not to go off on those rants out of respect,, but good grief, top 2? To me that is just screamingly funny.

I bet you can find a photo like that of just about ANY politician. Everybody looks crazy when cheering.

I am not fan of Howard Dean so much, but the fact he got sunk for a noise he made while cheering.. that was just stupid.

~Bang

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techboy

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(Sorry TB, nothing personal. I try not to go off on those rants out of respect,, but good grief, top 2? To me that is just screamingly funny.

There's nothing personal about using the term "religious zealot".

Especially since religious zealots are free to assume you're talking about the other guys. :silly:

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