Marcus Bachmann, husband of former Minnesota Rep. and one time GOP Presidential candidate Michelle Bachmann, just landed a job on the President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities. Donald Trump appointed Bachman to the committee, which serves as part of the Department of Health and Human Services.
The American Independent reports that the appointment of Bachmann comes as Trump continues to assault LGBTQ rights, right up into his final days in office. Bachmann, once referred to by gay columnist Dan Savage as a “tormented closet case,” runs a counseling clinic in his native Minnesota that specializes in faith-based conversion therapy of queer people.
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“We have to understand: barbarians need to be educated,” Bachmann said of his LGBTQ people in 2010. “They need to be disciplined. Just because someone feels it or thinks it doesn’t mean that we are supposed to go down that road. That’s what is called the sinful nature. We have a responsibility as parents and as authority figures not to encourage such thoughts and feelings from moving into the action steps.”
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Both the American Medical Association and the American Psychiatric Association have denounced conversion therapy as an ineffective, torturous practice. His appointment to the committee should not come as a major surprise, given that wife Michelle called on Trump to reverse the LGBTQ agenda. Over the past four years, the Trump Administration has waged unyielding war on queer people, calling for a reinstatement of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” the reversal of marriage equality, attacking the rights of transgender people at every opportunity.
Frankly, we’re wondering if Trump even realizes the President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities is an advisory board, not a group for people with actual mental defects.
Josh447
Oh come on. Just a minor correction. That’s Lady Bird Bachman.
MHaumesser
So he’ll have the job for a month! Then Biden will remove him!
Essie
Someone correct me if I’m wrong but, I think these appointments to “advisory boards” and the like cannot be overturned by Biden. This is a non-paid position. Dump has appointed many of his soon-to-be-former employees to several boards (Kennedy Center, various museums, etc.) and it is for a certain amount of time. In fact, I believe he just appointed an anti-Semite to a Holocaust board. (I read that this morning somewhere.) I doubt any of them will have much power but I suppose it will depend on who else is on those boards. I imagine there is no harm to this because one person can’t change much but if there are others all bets are off.
Mack
Thank Heaven it’s only for a month.
RBYapok
Having lived in minnesota I am very familiar with this damaging closet case. This so-called “ex-gay” scum bag runs an “ex-gay” ministry. There’s no telling how many lives he’s ruined and how many people he’s driven to suicide.
Prax07
His face always has an expression that screams “I’ve got a monster butt-plug up my starfish and nobody can tell.”. They all need to go come January.
barryaksarben
His face looks like CAM from Modern family without the decency
James
HE MUST HAVE BEEN DESPERATE FOR A JOB. NO ONE ELSE WOULD HIRE HIM. HIS WIFE IS NUTS.
Patrick
He has been appointed to the President’s Committee on People with Intellectual Disabilities & obviously between himself & his wife he has a lot of experience in this area.
toddlicious
The queen, she doth protest too much.
BoomerMyles
Marcus is so queer!
JohnnyBoy2
The HHS needs a macho guy like Marcus Bachman. He just exudes testosterone and masculinity.
Fahd
People with intellectual disabilities certainly deserve much better – what a perversion of government!
Hdtex
Human garbage.
yendor808
Miss Marcus. Oh please, Gurleene. You’re not fooling anybody. Lindsay Graham’s fraternal twin sister, separated at birth. Marcus and Michelle fight nightly over using the most expensive moisturizers that clutter their bathroom vanity countertop. To no avail. Sorry, both still ugly to the core, inside and out. These nut bags also fight over which one gets to use the biggest dildo from the bedroom bedside table drawer on themselves since they haven’t actually touched one another for centuries. They both belong in padded rooms wearing straight jackets without the benefit of any medication which would be useless. As they are both clearly bat shit crazy and incurable.
woodroad34
Not a licensed psychiatrist/psychologist….just a “dude” *ahem* with a degree from something akin to a Learning Tree University. Pure Trump ineptness and bringing in a tax fraudster like Michelle. Crazy Eyes and Just Plain Crazy (and Miss Bachman, too).
Peanutella
So, he’s appointed to a presidential committee for about the next 25 days? I either don’t get it or it’s stupid.
Cam
I’m wondering when the trial will happen where we find out he was molesting kids who came to his organization for conversion therapy.