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After arriving 30 minutes late to speak at the Iowa State Fair on Friday, presidential candidate Michele Bachmann spoke only three minutes then fled the event after being heckled by a gay-rights advocate, the Huffington Post reported.
Gabe Aderhold, a 17-year-old from Edina, Minn., yelled, “Shame on you,” several times at Bachmann. Aderhold had confronted other Republican candidates earlier in the day about their opposition to LGBT equality.
“I’m a second class citizen because of you, Michele! Second class citizen! What about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for every American, Michele?” Aderhold yelled at Bachmann.
HuffPo reported that just moments after Aderhold began to heckle her, Bachmann and her entourage, which included bodyguards, moved quickly from the stage and through the crowd, at a pace rapid enough that some spectators appeared to get lightly shoved out of the way. She jumped on a golf cart with her aides and fled.
Bachmann, who made demonization of gay people the focal point of her early political career, won today’s Ames Straw Poll, which is decided mostly by fundamentalist Christian GOP activists. U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, placed a close second. The poll is considered an early test of the GOP’s crowded presidential field. No Republican can win the party’s presidential nomination without a stamp of approval from the party’s anti-gay fringe voters.
Originally posted by Carseller4
Gay people make me nervous.
If a gay person yelled at me, I would run too.
Good call. You can not win in a yelling match with a gay person. Run the other way. These people are very good at yelling and causing a scene.
Originally posted by mugger
So what If Bachmann's views are Christian and not supportive of Gay lifestyles? Does it make her wrong?
The silent majority of Christian's most likely agree with Bachmann.
Originally posted by Carseller4
Gay people make me nervous.
If a gay person yelled at me, I would run too.
Good call. You can not win in a yelling match with a gay person. Run the other way. These people are very good at yelling and causing a scene.
Personal Disclosure: Ron Paul was 2nd ... OMFG! Did hell just freeze over in the GOP heartland! He's making MASSIVE headway there! That he came 2nd in such a biased demographic polling is a clear sign that he IS being listened to AND AGREED WITH!
Originally posted by Carseller4
Gay people make me nervous.
If a gay person yelled at me, I would run too.
Good call. You can not win in a yelling match with a gay person. Run the other way. These people are very good at yelling and causing a scene.
Originally posted by afghanibullrider
Because people can't just let them live their lives without someone telling them theres something wrong with their brains all the way too being a birth defect. Freedom for all.
Originally posted by mugger
So what If Bachmann's views are Christian and not supportive of Gay lifestyles? Does it make her wrong?
The silent majority of Christian's most likely agree with Bachmann.