Conservative Pledge Strikes Slavery Phrase

Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum apparently aren’t close readers, having signed a pledge from a Christian group in Iowa that said black families were stronger under slavery. “A child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African-American baby born after the election of the U.S.A.'s first African-American President," read the offending passage, which has since been removed. Bachmann tried to distance herself by saying she supported only the “candidate’s vow” section of the pledge, which her spokeswoman says she still supports. (The pledge also calls to ban all forms of pornography.) The spokeswoman added, "[Bachmann] believes that slavery was horrible and economic enslavement is also horrible.”