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Contrary1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-11 05:43 PM
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ABC News leads off with Bachmann: Pray Away the Gay at Candidate's Clinic?
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"A former patient who sought help from the Christian counseling clinic owned by GOP presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann and her husband, Marcus, told ABC News he was advised that prayer could rid him of his homosexual urges and he could eventually be "re-oriented."

" path for my therapy would be to read the Bible, pray to God that I would no longer be gay," said Andrew Ramirez, who was 17-years-old at the time he sought help from Bachmann & Associates in suburban Minneapolis in 2004. "And God would forgive me if I were straight."

In the past, Marcus Bachmann has disputed the clinic has treated gay patients this way. But Ramirez's account, which was first reported by The Nation, is similar to the counseling session that appears on new undercover video shot by a gay rights advocacy group last month. That footage shows another counselor at the Bachmann clinic telling a gay man posing as a patient that, with prayer and effort, he could eventually learn to be attracted to women and rid himself of his gay urges..."

Can you say "Hidden camera", Michelle? Yep, they're not just used by your side.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/michele-bachmann-exclusive-pray-gay-candidates-clinic/story?id=14048691
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Andy823 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-11 05:48 PM
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1. So
How much did the Bachmann's clinic charge for all this "counseling"? Sure sound like some kind of a scam to me! I have heard of the same kind of "counseling" for people with drug or alcohol problems!
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Rick Myers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-11 06:53 PM
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2. He husband's clinic takes Medicare and Medicaid!!!!
REALLY!!!
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PDittie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-11 07:16 PM
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4. $137K from Medicaid
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43570552/ns/politics-decision_2012/t/bachmanns-husband-got-medicaid-funds/

"The $161,000 in payments from the Minnesota Department of Human Services to her husband's clinic appear to contradict some of Michelle Bachmann's public accounts this week when she was first asked about the extent to which her family has benefited from government aid. Contacted this afternoon, Alice Stewart, a spokeswoman for Bachmann, said the congresswoman was doing campaign events and was not immediately available for comment."
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-11 06:57 PM
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3. our media is shit.
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