Minnesota Congresswoman Michele
Bachmann, a Republican, on Wednesday accused the “gay community”
of working to allow adults “to freely prey on little children
sexually.”
Bachmann
warned that gays will “abolish age of consent laws, which means
we will do away with statutory rape laws so that adults will be able
to freely prey on little children sexually. That's the deviance that
we're seeing embraced in our culture today.”
Bachmann, a strong opponent of gay
rights, made her comments during an appearance on the conservative
radio show Faith & Liberty.
She also attacked marriage equality as
a “radical experiment” with “profound consequences.”
“I think that nature tells us, our
biology tells us, that marriage is between a man and a woman. When
we tamper with something that was generated by the Creator of the
Universe, I think there are profound consequences that we haven't yet
realized.”
Bachmann added that her message was
about spreading “goodness and joy and wholeness and healing, and we
do that through a loving God with a message that frees people, it
doesn't enslave people.”