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Michele Bachmann Confronted by Kid with Gay Mom
Michele Bachmann Confronted by Kid with Gay Mom - Yahoo! News
By Mark Whittington | Yahoo! Contributor Network – 23 hrs ago
COMMENTARY | Using kids as political props, even for the most righteous of causes, is a tactic fraught with danger. Such was the case when 8-year-old Elijah walked up to Rep. Michele Bachmann at a book signing and proceeded to admonish her.
Elijah told Bachmann, according to Yahoo! News' The Upshot, "My mommy's gay, but she doesn't need fixing."
Taken aback, Bachmann managed a, "Bye bye" to mother and son as they passed on.
Bachmann, like many conservatives, is an opponent to same-sex marriage. Her family runs a faith-based service that allegedly uses prayer to turn people from being gay to being straight, according to the New York Daily News. Elijah is seen being encouraged to speak by the woman some have identified as his mother despite a reluctance to do so.
Agreeing with the idea one cannot "pray the gay away" and that in any case being gay is not something that generally needs fixing, one wonders what the point of pushing a kid into a confrontation with a presidential candidate. For one thing, it smacks of cowardice on the part of Elijah's mom. If she had a problem with Bachmann and her views on homosexuality, she should have spoken up herself and not hid behind her son.
In any event, staging a confrontation, with the video camera running, with Bachmann was pointless from a political standpoint. Bachmann is not likely to become president if the current poll numbers are to be believed. She is therefore no likely to be in a powerful enough position to-say-require mandatory counseling for gay people or whatever Elijah's mom was afraid she planned to do. All it did was embarrass the candidate, which was likely the real goal, and made Elijah an unwilling celebrity.
Setting up children as political props is a creepy thing to do anyway. One can only remember the video that was created with a group of young kids, fresh faced, well scrubbed, all of them in matching Obama T-shirts, singing a praise song for the then candidate in 2008. Even without the addition of similar footage of Hitler Young singing praises of their savoir, the spectacle was slightly stomach churning.
Michele Bachmann Confronted by Kid with Gay Mom
Michele Bachmann Confronted by Kid with Gay Mom - Yahoo! News
By Mark Whittington | Yahoo! Contributor Network – 23 hrs ago
COMMENTARY | Using kids as political props, even for the most righteous of causes, is a tactic fraught with danger. Such was the case when 8-year-old Elijah walked up to Rep. Michele Bachmann at a book signing and proceeded to admonish her.
Elijah told Bachmann, according to Yahoo! News' The Upshot, "My mommy's gay, but she doesn't need fixing."
Taken aback, Bachmann managed a, "Bye bye" to mother and son as they passed on.
Bachmann, like many conservatives, is an opponent to same-sex marriage. Her family runs a faith-based service that allegedly uses prayer to turn people from being gay to being straight, according to the New York Daily News. Elijah is seen being encouraged to speak by the woman some have identified as his mother despite a reluctance to do so.
Agreeing with the idea one cannot "pray the gay away" and that in any case being gay is not something that generally needs fixing, one wonders what the point of pushing a kid into a confrontation with a presidential candidate. For one thing, it smacks of cowardice on the part of Elijah's mom. If she had a problem with Bachmann and her views on homosexuality, she should have spoken up herself and not hid behind her son.
In any event, staging a confrontation, with the video camera running, with Bachmann was pointless from a political standpoint. Bachmann is not likely to become president if the current poll numbers are to be believed. She is therefore no likely to be in a powerful enough position to-say-require mandatory counseling for gay people or whatever Elijah's mom was afraid she planned to do. All it did was embarrass the candidate, which was likely the real goal, and made Elijah an unwilling celebrity.
Setting up children as political props is a creepy thing to do anyway. One can only remember the video that was created with a group of young kids, fresh faced, well scrubbed, all of them in matching Obama T-shirts, singing a praise song for the then candidate in 2008. Even without the addition of similar footage of Hitler Young singing praises of their savoir, the spectacle was slightly stomach churning.
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