Undercover video shows Bachmann’s clinic engaging in ‘ex-gay’ therapy

Wow. The Bachmann’s are terrible, terrible people. Hopefully this will be a huge campaign issue as it really shows them as they truly are. Truth be told, I hope she wins the Republican ticket. It should make the election very enjoyable to watch, as she will be easy to beat.

Homosexuality is not a recognized disease. What I’d like to know is, if Bachmann’s clinic has been “treating” people for this “disease” and collecting Medicaid payments for doing so, how is this not Medicaid fraud? I would be interested to know what diagnostic and treatment codes the clinic reports for its patients.

I can’t help having red flags go up at the snippets of video. The ACORN videos were pretty convincing too, but it was only after ACORN was defunct that it turned out they were fraudulent. We’ve seen these fraudulent videos used to attack other people and organizations, and the damage is usually done before the fraud is discovered. I realize this is a different group of people, but just they fact they’re on my side of the political spectrum doesn’t lessen my skepticism. They should release the raw video, if they haven’t.

If the video is accurate, then the Bachmann’s are taking taxpayer money for quack medicine with a religious purpose, which has to be multiple ways illegal.

EricF, I hear you, and I applaud you for wanting more proof. I think that the non response and non declaration from the Bachmann’s are partial proof that there is truth to this.

One is innocent till proven guilty, true. But the proof is getting strong!

Just a note- ACORN was cleared of fraud charges: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/24/us/24acorn.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=ACORN+voter+fraud

Cannot be reposted enough.

“The most important fact about ‘reparative therapy,’ also sometimes known as ‘conversion’ therapy, is that it is based on an understanding of homosexuality that has been rejected by all the major health and mental health professions. The American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Counseling Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, the National Association of School Psychologists, and the National Association of Social Workers, together representing more than 477,000 health and mental health professionals, have all taken the position that homosexuality is not a mental disorder and thus there is no need for a ‘cure.’

….rejected by all the major health and mental health professions!!!

There should be a Constitutional Amendment against this type of abuse and harm. it’s amazing that the local press and media are once again ignoring the Bachmann’s breathtaking bigotry and and extreme conduct.

SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE . . .

For the conservative republican and/or anarchist libertarian (aka, tea partiers): IN MEDIO VIRTUS, Virtue lies in the middle way. Any thing short of this understanding is way too FASCIST and UnAmerican!

I will fight to the death to keep the christians from claiming a singular faith in my country, the United States of America. And, don’t forget, “United” means diversity in race, religion and sexual orientation.

Any differences in moral obligations or spiritual beliefs are the responsibility of the ‘family’ and not the oversight of the federal gov’t. As for the churches, it’s time to start paying taxes if they so politically infringe their moral codes on the whole.

Nevertheless, I, too, would like to see more proof on whether Bachmann’s clinic has been “collecting Medicaid payments for treating” people for this “(homosexual) disease”. It’s tic-for-tat on the argument that the new health policy not pay off on abortions. Remember Edward’s $400 haircuts? Who was the mistress getting the money?

For now . . . KISS *

Ex-gay therapy is dangerous, it’s been known to cause severe depression with the end result being suicide. Trying to change a persons sexual orientation by praying to a mythological deity is effective as waving a magic wand to change hair color. Michelle Bachman is a stupid woman, we already had 8 years of stupidity from Dubya.

Does the Bachmann clinic do exorcism? Healing by laying on of hands?

Something akin to mainstream voodoo? Hocus pocus?

I know the state is being shorted of money these days, but that clinic has been state licensed for years, so what was the level of scrutiny?

And is it correct that Marcus Bachmann as a basis for practice holds only a “PhD” from someplace in Ohio or Indiana that has no campus, but gives distance-schooling post-graduate degrees?

Is that truly the underpinning of a “medical” practice that has made the Bachmann spouses millionaires?

@Eric Z… the same way the faith healer’s tents and snake oil salesmen have been able to make millions, they only did it in a more lazy way through our tax dollars.