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Well, that was inevitable. Following previous attempts to “glitter-bomb” former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich for their opposition to gay marriage, a band of Minnesota LGBT activists descended on a Bachmann & Associates Christian counseling clinic on Thursday in an attempt to dump glitter on Rep. Michele Bachmann’s husband, Marcus. The clinic, which is co-owned by the GOP presidential candidate, has been under scrutiny in recent weeks over reports that it practices “reparative therapy,” a potentially harmful procedure in which therapists attempt to cure homosexuality through prayer. (The practice is rejected by major psychiatric and psychological associations.)
Per Think Progress, protesters dressed up as barbarians—a nod to Marcus Bachmann’s statement in a 2010 radio interview that gay children, like “barbarians,” “need to be educated”—and shouted “You can’t pray away the gay—baby, I was born this way!” Mr. Bachmann, the intended recipient, was not there.
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Rep. Bachmann was herself the target of an attempted glittering at last month’s RightOnline conference in Minneapolis.
