As Bachmann Preps For Speech To Family Leader, Her Political Director Calls Group’s Claim About Gays

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As Bachmann Preps For Speech To Family Leader, Her Political Director Calls Group’s Claim About Gays ‘Absurd’

Tomorrow, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) will appear before the Iowa FAMiLY Leader, the radical anti-LGBT group headed by Bob Vander Plaats, as she lays the groundwork for a potential presidential campaign. As ThinkProgress reported Friday, the FAMiLY Leader and Vander Plaats himself hold some abhorrent views about homosexuality, including the belief that it is a “public health risk” along the lines of secondhand smoke.

According to CNN, Bachmann’s first hire in her presidential campaign will likely be Iowa State Senator Kent Sorenson (R), who will serve as her state political director. Sorenson gained notoriety as the author of Iowa’s “birther bill” requiring “birth certificates to be filed with affidavits of candidacy for presidential and vice presidential candidates.”

Given the fact that Bachmann’s cozying up to the FAMiLY Leader, ThinkProgress caught up with her planned political director to get his thoughts about the ideas being pushed by Vander Plaats’s group. In a surprise move, Sorenson sharply criticized the notion that homosexuality is a “public health problem” akin to secondhand smoke, calling the argument “absurd.” Sorenson went on to declare that “I would never make that argument and I haven’t heard anybody in Iowa make that argument”:


Watch it:

http://thinkprogress.org/2011/04/10/sorenson-bachmann-gays/

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1. hmph.

Why don't I despise Bachman as much as Rand and Palin?