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Rep. Michele Bachmann will join Gov. Tim Pawlenty at the biggest religious right event of the year. The Sept. 18 Values Voter Summit, hosted by Focus on the Family and several other groups opposed to gay rights, generates controversy just about every year it’s held. In 2006, a speaker decried “faggots” and a gay-rights movement that was born in the “pit of hell itself.” In 2007, birther Janet Folger claimed that Mitt Romney thought Satan is Jesus’ brother. The buzz in 2008 was the racist “Obama waffles” stand.
The summit announced Pawlenty as a speaker in June. Bachmann’s name was missing from the roster until this week, and on Thursday Focus on the Family urged supporters to attend, using the 6th District Republican as a top selling point.
“Each year, the Values Voter Summit rallies together those citizens who are deeply concerned with the policies that impact our families and our religious liberties,” Sonja Swiatkiewicz of Focus on the Family Action wrote in an email to supporters. “But this event is more than just a discussion of what’s wrong in our country – it’s a chance to be equipped to make a difference in our communities, to make our voices heard and to realize that we’re not alone in our desire to preserve the values upon which our nation was founded.”
“Attendees will have the chance to hear from some of the nation’s top social conservatives, including Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., on issues such as health-care reform,” the email read.
Last year, Bachmann stumped for the GOP’s presidential candidate at the summit, coining a phrase that failed to take off: “McCain is McBrilliant!”
Here are her full remarks from last year.
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Comment posted September 12, 2009 @ 7:02 pm
“Dogma voters” is the more fitting label. “Values voters” is a label invented by people who like to think of themselves as championing good human values. What many of them are pushing actually is dogma. “Values” are “the principles that help you to decide what is right and wrong, and how to act in various situations.” Cambridge Dictionary of American English. “Dogma” is “a fixed, esp. religious, belief or set of beliefs that people are expected to accept without any doubts.” Id. The two, we can only hope, overlap to some extent, but they are hardly the same. Some of what religious fundamentalists hold up as values others find plainly wrongheaded and even immoral. Labels count. Those pushing the “values voters” label hope it will help them pass off their dogma as values. If they want to push their dogma, that’s their right. But “dogma voters” they are, and that’s what I’ll call them.
Comment posted September 13, 2009 @ 8:05 am
Values voters?All they value is their political careers,and the lucrative benefits that come with it.They especially value their single payer health care plan that the tax paying public provides them!!
Comment posted September 13, 2009 @ 11:14 pm
This is right where Bachmann and Pawlenty belong, standing shoulder to shoulder with bigots and haters.
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Comment posted September 20, 2009 @ 11:38 pm
The question is are we going to adhere to a political ethos that says that anyone can do anything they want at anytime and call that good and moral or are we going to acknowledge that there are some standards that although they restrain certain behavior are in the long run good for society. In the last fifty years we as a society have been following after the former and as a result we have seen an exponential increase in homicides, suicides, out of wedlock births and fatherless children, divorce and breakdown of the nuclear family, drug addiction, obesity, aids, etc. Take aids for instance. It can be prevented by restraining out of marriage sex, illicit drug usage, tatoos and piercings. Curiously enough all of these factors have long since been proscribed in the Bible as being unhealthy and against good standards. It is time that we grow up, stop acting like self-centered children and fight for what is best for our future as a people. Anything else is suicide.
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