Michele Bachmann may have slipped from the top tier of Republican Presidential candidates, but there's no doubt she serves a valuable purpose. More so than any lower tier candidate, she makes the people polling ahead of her seem coherent and sane (dare I say it, presidential) in comparison. Her issues with factual accuracy are pretty well documented, and more recently she's raised her game with her latest comments about gay marriage while campaigning in Iowa.
Upon first reading that Bachmann told the president of an Iowa high-school's Gay-Straight Alliance organization that gay people can get married, I assumed that her train of thought had simply derailed again. Reading the report of the event by the Des Moines Register, however, makes it clear that she's moved beyond simple errors of fact into a reality of her own.
After declaring that all Americans have the same civil rights and that the government's role is to protect those rights, she then addressed a question about gay people getting married. "They can marry a man if they're a woman," she explained succinctly. "Or they can marry a woman if they're a man."
Perhaps Bachmann truly sees no contradiction in the idea that a group of people who supposedly have the same rights and privileges as all Americans have to submerge their identities to enjoy those rights. Alternatively, she wouldn't be the first politician to say something simply because they think it will help them get elected. Either way, it's a vision of America that leaves a lot to be desired.
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