Who is Michele Bachmann's hband? Not only is he a clil therapist, but he and Michele n a clic that's been acced of g gay nversn therapy. New tails on Marc Bachmann.
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- HYPOCRISY? BACHMANN’S HBAND, CLOSETED GAY?
- MARC BACHMANN’S CONTROVERSIAL GAY THERAPY—AND HOW IT AFFECTS MICHELE’S CAMPAIGNMICHELE BACHMANN’S HBAND WAS PROVED TO PRACTICE A THERAPY AIMED AT TURNG GAYS STRAIGHT. MICHELLE GOLDBERG ON THE 2012 FALLOUT. MICHELLE GOLDBERGUPDATED JUL. 13, 2017 7:12PM EDT / PUBLISHED JUL. 10, 2011 11:31PM EDT STEVE POPE / GETTY IMAGIN 2006, A STORY ABOUT MICHELE BACHMANN THE MNEAPOLIS CY PAG LVED TO HBAND MARC’S VOLVEMENT THE EX-GAY MOVEMENT. THE PIECE QUOTED CURT PRS, AN ATTENE AT A NSERVATIVE NFERENCE WHERE MARC, A THERAPIST WHO NS A CHRISTIAN UNSELG PRACTICE, GAVE A PRENTATN, “THE TTH ABOUT THE HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA,” ARGUG THAT HOMOSEXUALY IS BOTH A CHOICE AND A THREAT. AS A FALE, HE BROUGHT UP THREE PEOPLE, CLUDG A PROMENT EX-GAY ACTIVIST NAMED JA BOYN, WHO TTIFIED ABOUT LEAVG HOMOSEXUALY BEHD. “ONE OF THEM SAID, 'IF I WAS BORN GAY, THEN I'LL HAVE TO BE BORN AGA,'" PRS RELLED. "THE CROWD WENT CRAZY."YET WHEN THE CY PAG REPORTER ASKED MARC IF HIS CLIC PERFORMS SO-LLED REPARATIVE THERAPY—A WILY DISCREDED TECHNIQUE MEANT TO TURN GAY PEOPLE STRAIGHT—MARC NIED . AND OVER THE YEARS HE HAS KEPT NYG , SPE PLENTY OF EVINCE THAT BOTH HE AND MICHELE ARE EPLY MTED TO THE IA THAT HOMOSEXUALY N BE CURED.IF THERE WAS ANY DOUBT THAT HE WAS LYG, DISAPPEARED ON FRIDAY, WHEN THE NATN BROKE NEWS OF AN VTIGATN BY TTH WS OUT, A GROUP VOTED TO BATG THE EX-GAY MOVEMENT. “UNNIABLY, 100 PERCENT, THE BACHMANN CLIC PRACTIC REPARATIVE THERAPY, WHICH TRI TO CURE GAY PEOPLE OF THEIR HOMOSEXUALY,” SAYS WAYNE BEN, TTH WS OUT’S FOUNR.RPONDG TO QUERI ABOUT BACHMANN’S CLIC OM REPORTERS—MYSELF AMONG THEM—BEN RECENTLY PUT OUT A LL FOR FORMER BACHMANN PATIENTS, AND A YOUNG MAN NAMED ANDREW RAMIREZ RPOND. AS RAMIREZ TOLD THE NATN, AFTER HE ME OUT 2004, THE SUMMER BEFORE HIS SENR YEAR, HIS EVANGELIL STEPFATHER HAD DRAGGED HIM TO BACHMANN & ASSOCIAT. THERE, A THERAPIST TOLD HIM HE SHOULD RENOUNCE HIS SEXUAL ORIENTATN. “HE BASILLY SAID BEG GAY WAS NOT AN ACCEPTABLE LIFTYLE GOD’S EY,” SAID RAMIREZ. TO PROVE THAT REPARATIVE THERAPY NTU AT BACHMANN’S CLIC TO THIS DAY, TTH WS OUT SENT A 26-YEAR-OLD STAFFER, JOHN BECKER, TO POSE AS A PATIENT THERE. ARMED WH HIDN MERAS, BECKER ATTEND FIVE SSNS WH THERAPIST TIMOTHY WIERTZEMA, WHO ASSURED HIM THAT ’S POSSIBLE TO RID HIMSELF OF SAME-SEX ATTRACTNS. “I THK ’S POSSIBLE TO BE TOTALLY EE OF THEM,” WIERTZEMA SAYS A TRANSCRIPT OF THE SSNS PROVID TO THE DAILY BEAST. “[I]T’S HAPPENED TO A NUMBER OF PEOPLE. I DON’T KNOW HOW MANY, BUT…THAT’S FOR SURE.” A KEY TE OF EX-GAY IOLOGY IS THAT THERE’S NO SUCH THG AS HOMOSEXUALY, ONLY HOMOSEXUAL FEELGS AND ACTS. ECHOG THIS IA, WIERTZEMA TOLD BECKER, “[W]E’RE ALL HETEROSEXUALS, BUT WE HAVE DIFFERENT CHALLENG.” TO OVERE HIS PARTICULAR CHALLENG, WIERTZEMA STCTED BECKER TO ATTEND THE EX-GAY OUTPOST MISTRY, TO “FURTHER VELOP YOUR OWN SENSE OF MASCULY,” AND TO CULTIVATE AN ATTRACTN TO FEMAL BY PAYG ATTENTN TO BETIFUL WOMEN AND ACKNOWLEDGG “THE FACT, LIKE OKAY, GOD MA HER THIS WAY, YOU KNOW, THAT’S AWOME.”IN THE TRANSCRIPTS, WIERTZEMA OFF AS RG AND NOT PARTICULARLY DOGMATIC. WHEN BECKER ASKS HIM FOR ADVICE ABOUT A POSSIBLE VATN TO A IEND’S SAME-SEX WEDDG, THE THERAPIST SAYS THAT, HIS PLACE, HE WOULDN’T GO, BUT HE LEAV THE CHOICE UP TO HIS CLIENT. (SHOULD BECKER CI TO ATTEND, WIERTZEMA SUGGTS, HE SHOULD BRG A STRAIGHT, CHRISTIAN IEND ALONG TO HOLD HIM ACUNTABLE.) HE CLEARLY MEANS WELL.BUT REPARATIVE THERAPY IS DANGERO NO MATTER HOW GOOD THE TENTNS BEHD . IT DON’T WORK, AND EXACERBAT THE SELF-LOATHG THAT LEADS GAYS AND LBIANS TO SEEK OUT THE FIRST PLACE. ACRDG TO THE AMERIN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATN, “THE POTENTIAL RISKS OF ‘REPARATIVE THERAPY’ ARE GREAT, CLUDG PRSN, ANXIETY AND SELF-STCTIVE BEHAVR, SCE THERAPIST ALIGNMENT WH SOCIETAL PREJUDIC AGAST HOMOSEXUALY MAY RERCE SELF-HATRED ALREADY EXPERIENCED BY THE PATIENT.” THE AMERIN PSYCHOLOGIL ASSOCIATN NMNED REPARATIVE THERAPY A 1997 ROLUTN, AFFIRMG THE PRCIPLE THAT “PSYCHOLOGISTS DO NOT MAKE FALSE OR CEPTIVE STATEMENTS SCIENTIFIC OR CLIL BASIS SERVIC.”SO BACHMANN’S CLIC, WHICH HAS RECEIVED $137,000 MEDIID FUNDS, IS SUBJECTG PEOPLE TO PSYCHOLOGILLY DAMAGG TECHNIQU WH NO SCIENTIFIC BASIS. WIERTZEMA’S APPROACH IS NOT UNIQUE THERE. INED, THE CLIC SELLS PI OF JA BOYN BOOK CALLED OUT: A FORMER LBIAN’S DISVERY OF FREEDOM, WHICH ARGU, “HOMOSEXUALY, LIKE ANY S, SEPARAT OM GOD, FOR HE NNOT TOLERATE S HIS PRENCE.” BECKER PHOTOGRAPHED STACKS OF THE BOOKS THE BACHMANN & ASSOCIAT OFFICE. HANGG ABOVE THEM WAS A TYPED ENDORSEMENT OM MARC BACHMANN SAYG, “JA IS A IEND. I REMEND THIS BOOK AS SHE SPEAKS TO THE HEART OF THE MATTER AND GIV PRACTIL SIGHTS OF TTH TO SET PEOPLE EE.” NEHER BACHMANN NOR MANY OF HIS THERAPISTS, ’S IMPORTANT TO NOTE, HAVE SER PSYCHOLOGIL TRAG. HIS PH.D. OM THE UNN INSTUTE, A CCNATI-BASED RRPONNCE SCHOOL; 2002, WAS CED BY THE OH BOARD OF REGENTS, WHICH SAID, “EXPECTATNS FOR STUNT SCHOLARSHIP AT THE DOCTORAL LEVEL WERE NOT AS RIGORO AS IS MON FOR DOCTORAL WORK.” AS POLI HAS REPORTED, HE’S NOT LICENSED WH ANY OF THE BOARDS THAT CERTIFY MENTAL-HEALTH PROFSNALS MNOTA, ONE OF THE FEW STAT THAT ALLOWS UNLICENSED PEOPLE TO PRACTICE MENTAL-HEALTH RE. SIARLY, WIERTZEMA’S M.A. OM ARGOSY UNIVERSY, A FOR-PROF DIPLOMA L.WHY DO ANY OF THIS MATTER? BACHMANN MAY BE DISHONT ABOUT HIS PRACTICE, BUT HE’S NOT THE ONE NNG FOR PRINT. YET SCRIBG HERSELF AS A SMALL-BS OWNER, MICHELE BACHMANN CLEARLY TAK PARTIAL CRED FOR BACHMANN & ASSOCIAT, AND SO S ACTIVI REFLECT ON HER. BIS, SHE’S MA CLEAR THAT MARC EXERTS THORY OVER HER, TELLG ONE CHURCH DIENCE THAT SHE BOWED TO HER HBAND’S STCTNS TO STUDY TAX LAW BEE “THE LORD SAYS BE SUBMISSIVE. WIV, YOU ARE TO BE SUBMISSIVE TO YOUR HBANDS.” THAT MEANS HIS CHARACTER AND BELIEFS ARE MORE GERMANE TO HER NDIDACY THAN THOSE OF OTHER POLIL SPO. HE’S THE HEAD OF THE WOMAN WHO WANTS TO BE THE HEAD OF UNTRY. HE’S ALSO A MAN WH DUB QUALIFITNS NNG A CLIC WHOSE UNSELG TECHNIQU N LIV. MICHELLE GOLDBERG
HYPOCRISY? BACHMANN’S HBAND, CLOSETED GAY?
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From sayg the HPV vacce mental retardatn, to claimg that rbon dxi is harmls, to sayg that Melissa Etheridge’s ncer was a chance for her to repent for beg gay, she's pretty probably remember her as one of the ndidat for the Republin nomatn the 2012 printial electn, where she eventually dropped out. He’s extremely are known for beg anti-gay, but Marc' views seem even more tense.
In an terview wh a Christian rad program, he pared homosexuals to “barbarians.
MARC BACHMANN’S CONTROVERSIAL GAY THERAPY—AND HOW IT AFFECTS MICHELE’S CAMPAIGNMICHELE BACHMANN’S HBAND WAS PROVED TO PRACTICE A THERAPY AIMED AT TURNG GAYS STRAIGHT. MICHELLE GOLDBERG ON THE 2012 FALLOUT. MICHELLE GOLDBERGUPDATED JUL. 13, 2017 7:12PM EDT / PUBLISHED JUL. 10, 2011 11:31PM EDT STEVE POPE / GETTY IMAGIN 2006, A STORY ABOUT MICHELE BACHMANN THE MNEAPOLIS CY PAG LVED TO HBAND MARC’S VOLVEMENT THE EX-GAY MOVEMENT. THE PIECE QUOTED CURT PRS, AN ATTENE AT A NSERVATIVE NFERENCE WHERE MARC, A THERAPIST WHO NS A CHRISTIAN UNSELG PRACTICE, GAVE A PRENTATN, “THE TTH ABOUT THE HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA,” ARGUG THAT HOMOSEXUALY IS BOTH A CHOICE AND A THREAT. AS A FALE, HE BROUGHT UP THREE PEOPLE, CLUDG A PROMENT EX-GAY ACTIVIST NAMED JA BOYN, WHO TTIFIED ABOUT LEAVG HOMOSEXUALY BEHD. “ONE OF THEM SAID, 'IF I WAS BORN GAY, THEN I'LL HAVE TO BE BORN AGA,'" PRS RELLED. "THE CROWD WENT CRAZY."YET WHEN THE CY PAG REPORTER ASKED MARC IF HIS CLIC PERFORMS SO-LLED REPARATIVE THERAPY—A WILY DISCREDED TECHNIQUE MEANT TO TURN GAY PEOPLE STRAIGHT—MARC NIED . AND OVER THE YEARS HE HAS KEPT NYG , SPE PLENTY OF EVINCE THAT BOTH HE AND MICHELE ARE EPLY MTED TO THE IA THAT HOMOSEXUALY N BE CURED.IF THERE WAS ANY DOUBT THAT HE WAS LYG, DISAPPEARED ON FRIDAY, WHEN THE NATN BROKE NEWS OF AN VTIGATN BY TTH WS OUT, A GROUP VOTED TO BATG THE EX-GAY MOVEMENT. “UNNIABLY, 100 PERCENT, THE BACHMANN CLIC PRACTIC REPARATIVE THERAPY, WHICH TRI TO CURE GAY PEOPLE OF THEIR HOMOSEXUALY,” SAYS WAYNE BEN, TTH WS OUT’S FOUNR.RPONDG TO QUERI ABOUT BACHMANN’S CLIC OM REPORTERS—MYSELF AMONG THEM—BEN RECENTLY PUT OUT A LL FOR FORMER BACHMANN PATIENTS, AND A YOUNG MAN NAMED ANDREW RAMIREZ RPOND. AS RAMIREZ TOLD THE NATN, AFTER HE ME OUT 2004, THE SUMMER BEFORE HIS SENR YEAR, HIS EVANGELIL STEPFATHER HAD DRAGGED HIM TO BACHMANN & ASSOCIAT. THERE, A THERAPIST TOLD HIM HE SHOULD RENOUNCE HIS SEXUAL ORIENTATN. “HE BASILLY SAID BEG GAY WAS NOT AN ACCEPTABLE LIFTYLE GOD’S EY,” SAID RAMIREZ. TO PROVE THAT REPARATIVE THERAPY NTU AT BACHMANN’S CLIC TO THIS DAY, TTH WS OUT SENT A 26-YEAR-OLD STAFFER, JOHN BECKER, TO POSE AS A PATIENT THERE. ARMED WH HIDN MERAS, BECKER ATTEND FIVE SSNS WH THERAPIST TIMOTHY WIERTZEMA, WHO ASSURED HIM THAT ’S POSSIBLE TO RID HIMSELF OF SAME-SEX ATTRACTNS. “I THK ’S POSSIBLE TO BE TOTALLY EE OF THEM,” WIERTZEMA SAYS A TRANSCRIPT OF THE SSNS PROVID TO THE DAILY BEAST. “[I]T’S HAPPENED TO A NUMBER OF PEOPLE. I DON’T KNOW HOW MANY, BUT…THAT’S FOR SURE.” A KEY TE OF EX-GAY IOLOGY IS THAT THERE’S NO SUCH THG AS HOMOSEXUALY, ONLY HOMOSEXUAL FEELGS AND ACTS. ECHOG THIS IA, WIERTZEMA TOLD BECKER, “[W]E’RE ALL HETEROSEXUALS, BUT WE HAVE DIFFERENT CHALLENG.” TO OVERE HIS PARTICULAR CHALLENG, WIERTZEMA STCTED BECKER TO ATTEND THE EX-GAY OUTPOST MISTRY, TO “FURTHER VELOP YOUR OWN SENSE OF MASCULY,” AND TO CULTIVATE AN ATTRACTN TO FEMAL BY PAYG ATTENTN TO BETIFUL WOMEN AND ACKNOWLEDGG “THE FACT, LIKE OKAY, GOD MA HER THIS WAY, YOU KNOW, THAT’S AWOME.”IN THE TRANSCRIPTS, WIERTZEMA OFF AS RG AND NOT PARTICULARLY DOGMATIC. WHEN BECKER ASKS HIM FOR ADVICE ABOUT A POSSIBLE VATN TO A IEND’S SAME-SEX WEDDG, THE THERAPIST SAYS THAT, HIS PLACE, HE WOULDN’T GO, BUT HE LEAV THE CHOICE UP TO HIS CLIENT. (SHOULD BECKER CI TO ATTEND, WIERTZEMA SUGGTS, HE SHOULD BRG A STRAIGHT, CHRISTIAN IEND ALONG TO HOLD HIM ACUNTABLE.) HE CLEARLY MEANS WELL.BUT REPARATIVE THERAPY IS DANGERO NO MATTER HOW GOOD THE TENTNS BEHD . IT DON’T WORK, AND EXACERBAT THE SELF-LOATHG THAT LEADS GAYS AND LBIANS TO SEEK OUT THE FIRST PLACE. ACRDG TO THE AMERIN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATN, “THE POTENTIAL RISKS OF ‘REPARATIVE THERAPY’ ARE GREAT, CLUDG PRSN, ANXIETY AND SELF-STCTIVE BEHAVR, SCE THERAPIST ALIGNMENT WH SOCIETAL PREJUDIC AGAST HOMOSEXUALY MAY RERCE SELF-HATRED ALREADY EXPERIENCED BY THE PATIENT.” THE AMERIN PSYCHOLOGIL ASSOCIATN NMNED REPARATIVE THERAPY A 1997 ROLUTN, AFFIRMG THE PRCIPLE THAT “PSYCHOLOGISTS DO NOT MAKE FALSE OR CEPTIVE STATEMENTS SCIENTIFIC OR CLIL BASIS SERVIC.”SO BACHMANN’S CLIC, WHICH HAS RECEIVED $137,000 MEDIID FUNDS, IS SUBJECTG PEOPLE TO PSYCHOLOGILLY DAMAGG TECHNIQU WH NO SCIENTIFIC BASIS. WIERTZEMA’S APPROACH IS NOT UNIQUE THERE. INED, THE CLIC SELLS PI OF JA BOYN BOOK CALLED OUT: A FORMER LBIAN’S DISVERY OF FREEDOM, WHICH ARGU, “HOMOSEXUALY, LIKE ANY S, SEPARAT OM GOD, FOR HE NNOT TOLERATE S HIS PRENCE.” BECKER PHOTOGRAPHED STACKS OF THE BOOKS THE BACHMANN & ASSOCIAT OFFICE. HANGG ABOVE THEM WAS A TYPED ENDORSEMENT OM MARC BACHMANN SAYG, “JA IS A IEND. I REMEND THIS BOOK AS SHE SPEAKS TO THE HEART OF THE MATTER AND GIV PRACTIL SIGHTS OF TTH TO SET PEOPLE EE.” NEHER BACHMANN NOR MANY OF HIS THERAPISTS, ’S IMPORTANT TO NOTE, HAVE SER PSYCHOLOGIL TRAG. HIS PH.D. OM THE UNN INSTUTE, A CCNATI-BASED RRPONNCE SCHOOL; 2002, WAS CED BY THE OH BOARD OF REGENTS, WHICH SAID, “EXPECTATNS FOR STUNT SCHOLARSHIP AT THE DOCTORAL LEVEL WERE NOT AS RIGORO AS IS MON FOR DOCTORAL WORK.” AS POLI HAS REPORTED, HE’S NOT LICENSED WH ANY OF THE BOARDS THAT CERTIFY MENTAL-HEALTH PROFSNALS MNOTA, ONE OF THE FEW STAT THAT ALLOWS UNLICENSED PEOPLE TO PRACTICE MENTAL-HEALTH RE. SIARLY, WIERTZEMA’S M.A. OM ARGOSY UNIVERSY, A FOR-PROF DIPLOMA L.WHY DO ANY OF THIS MATTER? BACHMANN MAY BE DISHONT ABOUT HIS PRACTICE, BUT HE’S NOT THE ONE NNG FOR PRINT. YET SCRIBG HERSELF AS A SMALL-BS OWNER, MICHELE BACHMANN CLEARLY TAK PARTIAL CRED FOR BACHMANN & ASSOCIAT, AND SO S ACTIVI REFLECT ON HER. BIS, SHE’S MA CLEAR THAT MARC EXERTS THORY OVER HER, TELLG ONE CHURCH DIENCE THAT SHE BOWED TO HER HBAND’S STCTNS TO STUDY TAX LAW BEE “THE LORD SAYS BE SUBMISSIVE. WIV, YOU ARE TO BE SUBMISSIVE TO YOUR HBANDS.” THAT MEANS HIS CHARACTER AND BELIEFS ARE MORE GERMANE TO HER NDIDACY THAN THOSE OF OTHER POLIL SPO. HE’S THE HEAD OF THE WOMAN WHO WANTS TO BE THE HEAD OF UNTRY. HE’S ALSO A MAN WH DUB QUALIFITNS NNG A CLIC WHOSE UNSELG TECHNIQU N LIV. MICHELLE GOLDBERG
Did Marc Bachmann file for divorce om Michele Bachman after the Supreme Court announced s cisn regardg legalized gay marriage? * michele bachmann husband gay *
” Y, bee homosexualy is a choice. He ns an anti-gay 1988, the Bachmanns moved to Stillwater, Mnota and started a Christian unselg center that provid gay nversn therapy.
However, a vio of a unselor at the clic shows that the practic at the unlicensed clic clu tryg to “pray the gay away.
There are mors he's APAcrdg to Dan Savage, a ntroversial gay advice lumnist, Marc Bachmann is a closeted gay:“Look at Marc Bachmann, Michele Bachmann’s hband. Anybody who has gaydar — anybody who has ey — looks at him and se a tormented closet se who has externalized his ternal nflict and is abg other people, dog his reparative-therapy bullsh.