I hadn't heard about him wanting Congress having the ability to overturn the Supreme Court's decisions. What's even sadder is one of the reasons (if not the main reason) he wants to get rid of the Supreme Court: Rick Perry wants to arrest all gay people and hates the Supreme Court telling him he can't.
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/08/flashback-rick-perry-supports-criminalizing-gay-sex
he is (still) a supporter of the Texas "homosexual conduct" statute, an archaic law that made it a crime for two consenting, unrelated adults to have sex if they were of the same gender. The law was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in the landmark 2002 case Lawrence v. Texas, but, despite repeated efforts, Texas has yet to formally repeal the statute. When Perry was asked about the Lawrence case in 2002, he defended the anti-sodomy statute: "I think our law is appropriate that we have on the books." He wrote about the case in his 2011 book Fed Up, too, citing the Lawrence decision as the product of "nine oligarchs in robes" and an example of what's wrong with our judicial system.
Compared to Rick Perry, Bachman almost looks sane. So allow me to take a minute to bash her some.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/06/16/246618/bachmann-craziest-quotes/
(1) BACHMANN WARNED ‘THE LION KING’ WAS GAY PROPAGANDA:
At the November 2004 EdWatch National Education Conference, Bachmann said the “normalization” of homosexuality would lead to “desensitization”: “Very effective way to do this with a bunch of second graders, is take a picture of ‘The Lion King’ for instance, and a teacher might say, ‘Do you know that the music for this movie was written by a gay man?’ The message is: I’m better at what I do, because I’m gay.”
(5) BACHMANN LIKENED VISITING IRAQ TO VISITING MALL OF AMERICA:
In 2007, Bachmann returned from a junket to Iraq and told her colleagues, “[T]here’s a commonality with the Mall of America, in that it’s on that proportion. There’s marble everywhere. The other thing I remarked about was there is water everywhere.”
(8) BACHMANN SUGGESTED GAY SINGER SHOULD REPENT AFTER GETTING CANCER: Bachmann saw Melissa Etheridge’s cancer as a teachable moment: “Unfortunately she is now suffering from breast cancer, so keep her in your prayers,” she said in November 2004. “This may be an opportunity for her now to be open to some spiritual things, now that she is suffering with that physical disease. She is a lesbian.”
The Lion King is turning children gay, Iraq is like the Mall of America, and God gave Melissa Etheridge cancer for being gay.
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