Michele Bachman Again Proves She's An Idiot

Michele Bachmann has previously demonstrated that she's a idiot when it comes to history and geography. Now she's demonstrated that she's an idiot when it comes to knowing the Bible and its various sub-plots. As Mother Jones is reporting, Bachmann is now holding herself out as the modern day equivalent of Jonathan - son of King Saul and likely lover of King David. As usual, the laugh is on Bachmann for her own stupidity. Nothing is more dangerous than someone who refuses to recognize their own intellectual limitations. Bachmann seems hell bent to prove to the world that she's an utter cretin - not that such reality will deter many of her equally mentally challenged followers. Here are some highlights from Mother Jones:

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) has a habit of breaking out Old Testament references when she speaks to religious audiences. . . . . now, with her presidential campaign on the ropes, the Minnesota congresswoman seems to have picked a new Biblical alter ego; we're not sure she really thought this one through. Via MinnPost, this is what she told the conservative activists at RightOnline . . . .:

"I want to call to mind in remembrance a hero of mine. And he's from ancient Israel. And from history we know, in the recorded annals of time, that this was someone considered more inconsequential, but to me he had an inspiring, powerful story. His name was Jonathan. . . . .

Then, as the story goes, Jonathan and a comrade scaled the cliff and defeated the entire Philistine army by themselves. If the story ended there, that would be a fantastic metaphor for what Bachmann would like to accomplish as a candidate. The story of Jonathan does not end there, however.

But there's another twist: Jonathan's mostly famous because of his very close personal relationship with David, with some scholars going so far as to suggest that they might have been lovers. Jonathan and David have been cited by gay rights activists as proof that gay rights are biblically enshrined, as well as by Oscar Wilde—at his trial for homosexuality. The Book of Samuel describes the relationship thusly: "The soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul." Their friendship led to a falling out between Saul and his son, after Jonathan pleads with the king to stop trying to kill David.

Dartmouth religion professor Susan Ackerman wrote a book about it. Here's how she synthesizes the "Jonathan and David were gay" (or at least bisexual) argument, seizing on the pair's falling out with Jonathan's father: [A]s Schroer and Staubli particularly argue, the language Saul uses in his diatribe is extremely sexually charged, so much so that we may be meant to interpret it also in sexual terms; that is, to understand this charged language is used in Saul's insults because Saul perceives his son's misdeeds to be sexual as well as political. According, then, to Schroer and Staubli, Jonathan has not only engaged in "the political scandal of a royal son betraying father and kingdom for the sake of a stranger, but also the effrontery of homosexual love."

One can only wonder what Bachmann's husband and "ex-gay" quack, "Marcia" Bachmann thinks of his wife's homosexual hero. :)