Bachmann Pledges to Ban Porn; Says Homosexuality is a Choice

Erstwhile GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann seems Hell bent to provide additional proof that she's a religious fanatic nutcase. Think Progress is reporting that Bachmann has signed a pledge created by THE FAMiLY LEADER, an intensely anti-gay Chrisitanist group in Iowa that helped spearhead the removal of three justices from the Iowa Supreme Court. The utter batshitery contained the pledge goes on and on and, while perhaps playing well with the Kool-Aid drinking Christianist set, ought to scare the Hell out of voters still tethered to reality who oppose a Christian Taliban theocracy in this country. Should other GOP candidates sign the pledge, it will be yet further proof that the Republican Party is now an anti-knowledge sectarian extremist party. As Think Progress notes:
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By signing the pledge Bachmann “vows” to “uphold the institution of marriage as only between one man and one woman” by committing herself to 14 specifics steps. The ninth step calls for the banning of “all forms” of pornography. The pledge also states that homosexuality is both a choice and a health risk.

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The full details of the pledge signed by Bachman can be found here. Here are some highlights of the religious based lunacy:

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HOMOSEXUALITY IS A CHOICE: The preface to the pledge reads, “Social protections…have been evaporating as we have collectively ‘debased the currency’ of marriage…in complete absence of empirical proof, that non-heterosexual inclination are genetically determined, irresistible and akin to innate traits like race, gender and eye color; as well as anti-scientific bias which holds, against all empirical evidence, that homosexual behavior in particular, and sexual promiscuity in general, optimizes individual or public health.” Footnote 8 reiterates this notion.

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HOMOSEXUALITY IS LIKE POLYGAMY, ADULTERY, POLYANDRY: Vow 4 requires the candidate to pledge “Vigorous opposition to any redefinition of the Institution of Marriage…through statutory, bureaucratic, or court-imposed recognition of intimate unions which are bigamous, polygamous, polyandrous, same-sex.”

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PORNOGRAPHY SHOULD BE BANNED: Vow 9 stipulates that the candidate must “support human protection of women and the innocent fruit of conjugal intimacy” and protect them from “seduction into promiscuity and all forms of pornography…and other types of coercion or stolen innocence.”

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REJECT SHARIA ISLAM: Vow 11 requires the candidate to reject Sharia law.