Bachmann Shoots Herself in the Foot With Endorsement of Slavery Statement

While continuing to pander to the most ignorant and bigoted elements of the GOP base, the utterly insane Michele Bachmann shot herself in the foot in a major way by signing onto the Family Leader's "Marriage Vow" which in reality translates into ugly anti-gay marriage and racist language. Bachman is apparently trying to deny that she endorsed the portion of the hate group's vow that stated that black children were better off under slavery than in toady's broken families. The statement is indicative of (i) the latent racism that I find always just beneath the surface of all of the "family values" Christianist organizations and (ii) the ease with which these supposed Christians rewrite history to suit their agenda. As for Bachmann, it demonstrates that she's a liar - just like her husband who claims not to engage in ex-gay therapy even though it has now been documented that he does precisely that. Once again, if a self-congratulatory conservative Christian's lips are moving, the safest bet is to assume that they are lying. The Washington Post has coverage of Bachmann's lame attempt to lie her way out of the slavery statement debacle:
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A socially conservative group has apologized for including a passage about slavery in a pledge it asked the Republican candidates to sign as a prerequisite for the group’s endorsement in the presidential race. Rep. Michele Bachmann had been the first GOP hopeful to sign “The Marriage Vow,” which included in the introduction a section that lamented that “the Institution of Marriage in America is in great crisis.”
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One piece of evidence it offered was the claim that a black person born into slavery “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 USA’s first African-American president.”
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The suggestion that African American babies may have somehow been better off under slavery touched off sharp criticism from liberals and commentators, who noted that U.S. slaves had been forbidden from marrying and were often sold at auction and separated from their family members.
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Saturday, Bachmann spokeswoman Alice Stewart said that the Minnesota congresswoman had only endorsed the 14-point “candidate vow,” which did not include the slavery passage. However, the entire document was only four pages, including two pages of footnotes, and the slavery section was the first bullet point within the preamble.