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Subscribe to RSSWAUKEE, IA –- Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann yesterday attended a church here in Iowa, where the pastor called homosexuality "immoral" and "unnatural," and later showed a testimonial video from a man who claimed to have been gay before having a conversation with God.
Before the sermon at Point of Grace Church -- a non-denominational congregation near Des Moines -- Bachmann stood with her husband, Marcus Bachmann, before a crowd of about 100 people, clutching her personal copy of the Bible.
“This is a time that we need to be encouraged this week, not discouraged,” she said, referencing Friday night’s credit downgrade and Saturday’s news about the Navy SEALs killed in Afghanistan.
“Whatever is pure, whatever is lovely,” Bachmann said, reading from the book of Philippians, “think well on these things.”
The reading drew cheers. Pastor Jeff Mullen, standing next to Bachmann, took her Bible his hand. “There are some candidates who start running, and have this come-to-Jesus moment,” he said. "What I love about this Bible,” he said, “is how well it's used.”
Mullen offered a prayer honoring democracy. “We have a nation where people can still rise up and speak their voice, and say, ‘This is what I believe.’”
When Bachmann and her husband returned to their seats, Mullen began a half-hour presentation on his church's beliefs. Reading verses from the Bible to support his case, Mullen said, "We inherently know that homosexual behavior is immoral and unnatural."
“God shows his anger from heaven against all sinful, wicked people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness,” Mullen said, reading from the book of Romans.
Mullen’s sermon concluded with video testimonial from a man named Adam Hood, who claims to have been gay before experiencing a conversation with God. "I am so happy God has given me natural affection for a woman," Hood said in the video, adding that his wife is nine months pregnant.
"We need to have compassion for people that are bound by that sin," Hood added. "And it is a sin. Call a spade a spade."
The Bachmanns remained in the church for the duration of the service, and afterward posed for a picture with Pastor Mullen and his family.
In an interview with NBC News, Mullen called his sermon on homosexuality “a bedrock, just a Biblical truth we’ve taught over the years.”
“It just so happens they were here today,” Mullen said of the Bachmanns. “And we were teaching on both marriage and homosexuality.”
The Bachmann campaign released this statement on Mullen's sermon: "Michele was an invited guest, she always welcomes the opportunity to meet with parishioners."
The Point of Grace Church service was the second church event Michele Bachmann attended on Sunday. Earlier, they visited the Des Moines First Church of the Nazarene, where the presidential candidate discussed the origins of her faith and political life.
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"Mankind's greatest mistake was inventing God!!"
Actually, I thought that honor went to the creators of "Cop Rock".......
Nope, anything that starts with Michael Bay presents...
This woman is very dangerous she cites a passage in the Old Testament before Jesus Christ was persecuted and died for payment for our sins. It is amazing there is no mention of it in later parts of the Bible but what they are not mentioning it is worse to judge for if you do you will be judged by God for your sin and when you face God will have to account for your sins and not attest for theirs as an excuse. Amazing that they say if you hide it from God you are an abomination evil and wicked when because of their views people are BULLIED and COMMIT SUICIDE at a higher rate in her District My suggestion to her is stop using God to promote your run for President because you are a blasphemer who will reap what you sow. Amazing Priests molest kids and blame the Gay This wonderful person says she cures people by praying the gay away which obviously does not work he is there when yopu wake up everday Michelle And are you serious that people are being taught to be Gay, Your husband was he taught His statement that you have to teach Barbarians to not to be Gay and you backpeddle Anbd now you believe it again Maybe you should choose Mitt Romney as your partner You and Him can flip and flop and take turns flipping and flopping And he can be dillusional that he is an expert at creating jobs and maybe he can teach you where the shot that was heard around the world but maybe not because he actually doesnt remember Massachusetts he is dillusional that he made this state great not Gov Deval Patrick a Democrat that is extremely similar to the President Oh by the way Mitt thank you for mandating health insurance at a higher penalty than the cost to the rast of the country Bet you got Alzheimers about that too
I think she's a latent Gay blade!
She's made her choice. Stand with the right-wing theocrats all the way. It justs confirms she will never be President.
No religion should control government. Two seperate things. There are many churches, beliefs and non beliefs, in the US. No one has the right to impose their belief on another.
Maggie Mclaren
I strongly second your thought !!!!!
So I guess there is no way you will ever accept that you are an immoral idiot?
Buck Fachmann and take her closeted hypocritic husband with her. Let them both find an honest way to earn a living. The two of the are demented souls whose fifteen minutes should have been over long ago.
“Whatever is pure, whatever is lovely."
How nice of Michelle to offer those beautiful words. For her and her ilke, however, I would add that unless, of course, it has oil or coal or something else to drill or mine for and destroy whatever was there before that was pure and lovely.
It seems like nowadays politicians need someone to discriminate against and someone whose freedoms are being withheld. How else can they get everyone riled up? For Hitler it was the jews; for Madame B it's the gays. In Minnesota she once snuck up on a gay rally at the capitol and hid behind bushes to observe these strange gay creatures. Apparently they didn't have those in Iowa where she is from. While doing this she was discovered by a local media team. They put her on camera and she quickly fled to her car. It was a hoot! Someone in Minnesota must have the tape. It's a scream! Poor Madame B, she had to sneak up on the gays like a hunter stalks it's game. That's probably because she never has met any gay people. It was like she was going to a petting zoo or something. We don't need someone with all of these hangups in the White House (or in congress for that matter). Lets work for freedom for eveyone. This is after all America.
Bachmann better look at the man ? sitting next to her because he is trying to pray the GAY away in his own life.
Perry's prayer-a-palooza and now Bachmann's anti-gay church activities. Wow! All I did this weekend was clean out my closets.
These hate-saturated right-wing religiosity frauds don't deserve to even be considered for public office.
They make the Pharisees look like saints.
I apologize to all Americans for this unholy, hypocritical, delusion woman. Most Minnesotans cannot stand her. I sure hope the tape of Marcus Bachmann (Marcus? Why not Marc? Hmm...) having a rollicking good time at the Gay '90s in downtown Minne turns up SOON!
Most Minnesotans cannot stand her? Are you from Minnesota? WHy did they elect her if she is so hated? I believe your mouth overloaded your brain.
This woman is a nut bag! The last thing our country needs is more intolerance. This is just more window dressing designed to suck money from religious right bigots.
True totalitarians seeking mind control, the people behind the gay agenda is promoting three big lies: 1. Homosexuality is genetically determined, 2. Change is not possible, and 3. Gay rights are part of the civil rights agenda. Homosexuality is placed on a par with race and gender. According to the gay agenda, these truths are obvious. No debate is needed. Opposition to these points signifies bigotry.
Well, opposition to equal rights signifies bigotry. I'm not sure if the genetic determination thing is all that relevant. Individual freedom should apply in either case.
Genetic determinism — Genes determine human choices and the trajectory of human development, we are told. This means that the gay is a programmed automaton and has no choice but to perform those sexual acts which the genes dictate. A full menu of sexual perversions are written into the genes and require only the right opportunity and stimulation to express themselves. This is nonsense, of course. Gays have free will and choice as do every human being. Sexual perversions must be learned through some combination of experimentation and instruction.
At present, there seems to be no scientific evidence linking particular genes to particular sexual practices.
Raymond, you are confusing sexual behavior with sexual orientation. Yes, it is a choice whether to engage in sex or not, but not in who you are attracted to. Did YOU choose whether you were going to be attracted to men or women?
jock, Gay sexual activities is a behavior. Race and gender are permanent innate characteristics which are fixed at birth. No moral judgement can be made of race and gender because no one chooses their race or gender.
In contrast, a homosexual orientation seems to emerge in developmental stages. Individual choices and social environment profoundly influences the trajectory of development. Sexual perversions must be learned through experimentation and instruction. Such practices are subject to moral judgements.
Judge away, Raymond, but accept that others will judge differently.
Raymond, give it up. Liberals know everything, and they are wrong about nothing. Soon they will take to the streets in favor of more Obama. See, they are right about everything. We want more of Obama's ideas to flood our lives with hope and change.
The headline MSNBC puts on this article implies that only certain churches condemn homosexuality. The fact is homosexuality is clearly condemned in the Bible and has been condemned in Christian doctrine for 2,000 years. If anyone says homosexuality and Christianity are compatible, they're either ignorant or lying. There is no ambiguity about homosexuality anymore than there's there is about murder or adultery.
The FACT is Bill, that the real Bible doesn't say a damned thing about homosexuality. Nothing.
Bill, in fact many Christian churches do not condemn homosexuality. Many believe that Christ's teachings of love and compassion are more important than arbitrary rules written in a far away country 3000 years ago.
Now really who is hiding the truth from God Adam Hood are you serious you are so lying and probably jumped back into the closet and repression will eventually eat at you and now you created a child and if you Divorce that will be one more sin And by the Michelle Bachmann you gotta just love how the heterosexuals have made a mockery of the precious gift of marriage Marrying for money, committing adultery, using children as pawns now who really is destroying the family It also states the woman is to serve her husband because it is his job to be in charge So how can you become President if you are going to quote the Bible you just cant believe the parts you choose it isnt like American History It is the law from God its just you misinterpret what you want. I believe it was for the time when people worshipped sex more than God and i know he really did not have a Revelation.Unfortunately you do not wake up and decide I wish to be Gay so I can live in sin and be bullied my whole life and have less rights than anybody else because I am a Barbarian
This woman is a nut bag! The last thing our country needs is more intolerance. This is just more window dressing designed to suck money from religious right bigots.
The negative prohibitions of homosexual practices in biblical scripture make sense only in the light of it's positive teaching in Genesis 1 and 2 about human sexuality and heterosexual marraige. Without the Bible's
positive teaching on sex and marriage, the homosexual question is bound to be skewed. Marraige is defined in Genesis 2:23-24-*This at last is bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh, she shall be called woman because she was taken from the man, *Therefore a Man shall leave his mother and father and cleave to his wife as one flesh*
1. Heterosexual Gender is a *Divine Creation
2. Heterosexual Marriage is a *Divine Institution*
3. Heterosexual Fidelity-Is a Divine Intention
*Therefore what GOD has joined together, let no man seperate* Matthew 19:6
A Homosexual Liasion is a Divine Breach of GOD's Divine Purpose for Marriage*
Well, we've come along way in 3000 years, and much of society simply doesn't believe that anymore.
jock59801. The Journal of Homosexuality, a gay publication, reports that certain gay-gene studies and gay-brain studies do not stand up to critical analysis. Many gays want the truth instead of the big lie. Others prefer the big lie. The author of one of the criticized gay-gene studies is under investigation for science fraud by the National Institutes of Health for Science Fraud.
Raymond
So?
jock, The object of jamming is to shame gay opponents into silence. The shame comes from the accusation of bigotry and social stigmatization.
Are you saying bigotry should not be stigmatized?
To Raymond and all others who think like him: The harder you fight, the worse it will be for all of you when the fight is over.
Bachmann a bigot who keeps similar company......and this is news to whom? Anybody surprised? Anyone?
About 50 years ago I started reading the Bible - reading along with the minister. While he talked, I kept reading the stuff before and after what he had selected. I was about 10, and it didn't take too many weeks to realize the book didn't actually say what he claimed it did. I've read it front to back several times and researched what some of it says in the earliest available languages. I'm here to report that it doesn't record either God or Jesus saying a damned thing about homosexuality.
It is time for her to quit wasting money on running for President. There is no way she can be elected with her gay bashing attitude - just one reason among many that she should not run for President.
Did MSNBC ever do an article on Rev Wrights sermans that Obama sat through for years?
Just wondering.
Boom, it's soooo embarrassing to read comments that make it exceedingly clear that the poster was not paying attention to the news they choose to comment about.
Which church did Obama attend for over 20 years? I don't recall MSLSD doing any reporting on that whatsoever. News flash, a majority of Americans consider homosexual behavior as immoral.
"There is no ambiguity about homosexuality anymore than there's there is about murder or adultery."
Again, the point being she is not applying to be the minister of the church of the US, but the President.
Don’t knock her, entertainment comes in all shapes and sizes, especially when its least expected.