Michelle Bachman's clinic gets federal dollars

[RecycleMichael]

I got this e-mail...

http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/bachmann_clinic/?rc=fb_share2

So-called gay conversion therapy has been denounced by the scientific and medical communities as ineffective, and potentially dangerous.

But an investigation earlier this month exposed that this hateful practice is used by the "quality Christian counseling clinic" owned by Michele Bachmann and her husband -- a clinic which was recently discovered to have received over $137,000 in federal Medicaid funds, in addition to $24,000 in other state and federal funds.

It's bad enough that Bachmann and Associates, after denying for years they practiced ex-gay therapy, clearly encourages patients to pray the gay away. Our taxpayer dollars shouldn't be funding it. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which oversees Medicaid, and the Minnesota Department of Health (DEH), which distributes the funds within the state, should immediately pull public funds from Bachmann's clinic.

Tell Secretary Sebelius and DEH Commissioner Edward Ehlinger: Stop funding Bachmann's anti-gay clinic. Going to the Bachmann family for counseling is like attending a peace rally hosted by Dick Cheney. Their views are extreme, hateful and crazy. Michele Bachmann has called homosexuality "a part of Satan," and "a real issue of sexual dysfunction" while her husband Marcus has called gays "barbarians."

And even as Michele Bachmann's family was collecting over $160,000 in Medicaid and other public funds, she was leading Tea Party calls for drastic cuts to the social safety net - especially to Medicaid which she has said swell the "welfare rolls" - and even voted to shut down the government rather than continue funding Planned Parenthood and the Health Care Reform Act. Yet when reports broke of the Medicaid payments to her family, Bachmann suddenly became sensitive to discrimination, declaring "it would be discriminatory not to accept Medicaid as a form of payment."

It would be stunning to keep funding with public money a clinic that promotes an anti-gay, religious agenda and medically-unsound services that are more damaging than anything else. HHS and Minnesota DEH must take a stand now.

[Conan71]

Wow, that story isn't full of hyperbole or anything 

I do love the quote though: "pray the gay away"

[swake]

This is just priceless. Jon Steward and Jerry Seinfeld on Bachman's husband:

http://video.tvguide.com/Way+Too+Early/Stewart+struggles+not+to+make+fun+of+Bachmann%E2%80%99s+husband/7389249

[guido911]

I heard she also gets migraines. 

[Townsend]

I heard she also gets migraines. 

That's Beelzebub planting thoughts.

[Hoss]

That's Beelzebub planting thoughts.

WINNING!

[carltonplace]

I heard she also gets migraines. 

And her husband thanks God for that.

[bokworker]

So a husband walks in and hands his wife 2 advil..... what are these for she says...for your headache he responds...I don't have a headache she says....GOTCHA he says..

[carltonplace]

So a husband walks in and hands his wife 2 advil..... what are these for she says...for your headache he responds...I don't have a headache she says....GOTCHA he says..

That's not happening at the Bachman house. I bet they dance alot though.

[Conan71]

That's not happening at the Bachman house. I bet they dance alot though.

You know why Baptists don't have sex standing up don't you?

They don't want anyone to think they are dancing.

[AquaMan]

Woman walks in the door and shrieks at her husband, "Pack a bag! I won the lottery!!"

"Great," he says, "The mountains or the ocean?"

"I don't care," she says, "as long as you're out of here."

[Ed W]

The big difference here, Michael, is that the Bachman's clinic is getting 'good' federal dollars rather than those 'evil' federal dollars.

( I had to go back and fix the spelling. Otherwise the ghost of Elsie Schwartz would appear.)

[Gaspar]

The big difference here, Michael, is that the Bachman's clinic is getting 'good' federal dollars rather than those 'evil' federal dollars.

( I had to go back and fix the spelling. Otherwise the ghost of Elsie Schwartz would appear.)

. . .and it doesn't perform abortions! 

[RecycleMichael]

Michelle Bachman is just another phony. She rails about government handouts while her husband makes a living taking them. This isn't about the gay nor abortion. It is about hypocrisy.

[azbadpuppy]

Michelle Bachman is just another phony. She rails about government handouts while her husband makes a living taking them. This isn't about the gay nor abortion. It is about hypocrisy.

Not to mention she was once an IRS tax attorney...