Michele Bachmann, the United States Rep from Minnesota and Republican presidential hopeful, has signed her name and agreed to follow the vows of The Family Leader.
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TFL is a prominent Iowa group that promotes Christian conservative social values and wants all presidential candidates to sign a pledge regarding their personal convictions on traditional marriage.
Their pledge is known as “The Marriage Vow – A Declaration of Dependence upon Marriage and Family.”
As Reported By The Des Moines Register:
U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minnesota, quickly signed the pledge Thursday. Alice Stewart, a Bachmann aide, said the congresswoman had no qualms about signing the Family Leader’s pledge. “She has been married for over 30 years and has a strong marriage and faith.”
Here are some of the vows by the Family Leader:
– HOMOSEXUALITY IS A CHOICE: The preface to the pledge reads, “Social protections…have been evaporating as we have collectively ‘debased the currency’ of marriage…in complete absence of empirical proof, that non-heterosexual inclination are genetically determined, irresistible and akin to innate traits like race, gender and eye color; as well as anti-scientific bias which holds, against all empirical evidence, that homosexual behavior in particular, and sexual promiscuity in general, optimizes individual or public health.” Footnote 8 reiterates this notion.
– PORNOGRAPHY SHOULD BE BANNED: Vow 9 stipulates that the candidate must “support human protection of women and the innocent fruit of conjugal intimacy” and protect them from “seduction into promiscuity and all forms of pornography…and other types of coercion or stolen innocence.”
– REJECT SHARIA ISLAM: Vow 11 requires the candidate to reject Sharia law.
SOURCE: ThinkProgress
