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Bachmann: Gays Bully the American People

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Michele Bachmann is sick and tired of gay bullying. No, the tried and true Tea Party conservative hasn’t had a change of heart about gay rights. According to Bachmann, it's the gay community that has “bullied the American people” and “intimidated politicians.” The Minnesota Rep. was mostly talking about Arizona’s vetoed right-to-refuse-service bill when she said, “There’s nothing about gays in there, but the gay community decided to make this their measure,” on a radio show at CPAC last week. “And the thing that I think is getting a little tiresome is the gay community have so bullied the American people and they have so intimidated politicians that politicians fear them and they think they get to dictate the agenda everywhere. Well, not with the Constitution you don’t.”

Read it at The Boston Globe