Bachmann on hearing of songwriter Melissa Etheridge's cancer:
"Unfortunately she is now suffering from breast cancer, so keep her in your prayers. This may be an opportunity for her now to be open to some spiritual things, now that she is suffering with that physical disease. She is a lesbian... almost all, if not all, individuals who have gone into the lifestyle have been abused at one time in their life, either by a male or by a female."
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On homosexuality:
"a very sad life... it's part of Satan, I think, to say that this is gay. It's anything but gay."
I'm not so much offended (in fact I'm not remotely offended) as I am just thoroughly bemused that a grown woman who's reached the heights of American politics still believes in the devil.
It's a little scary.