Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann has
quietly set aside her vocal campaign against gay rights, in
particular marriage rights, that propelled her to celebrity status
among conservatives as she seeks the 2012 GOP nomination for
president. But she hasn't stopped singing the praises of anti-gay
social conservatives, RightWingWatch.org
reported.
“One of the [Oral Roberts University]
professors who had a great influence on me was an Iowan named John
Eidsmoe. He's from Iowa and he's a wonderful man. He has theology
degrees, he has law degrees, he's absolutely brilliant,” Bachmann
said during a March speech at the Rediscovering God in America
conference in Iowa. “And he taught me about so many aspects of our
godly heritage.”
Eidsmoe's 1997 book God & Caesar
encourages Christian conservatives to enter politics and support
legislation that imposes biblical law.
Gay rights, Eidsmoe argues, are an
attack on society.
“Homosexuality is not only a moral
issue, but a political one, and it is largely the gay liberation
advocates who have made it so. … But homosexuality is not simply an
individual matter; it affects society as a whole. It influences the
entire moral strength and moral fiber of society. Furthermore, the
more widespread homosexuality becomes, the greater the likelihood
that homosexuals will recruit our children into homosexuality,
voluntarily or involuntarily.”
“And homosexuality invites the
judgment of God upon all of society. The great sin that brought
destruction by fire and brimstone upon Sodom and Gomorrah was
homosexuality (Genesis 19:5, 8). It is a mistake to suggest that the
decision to become a homosexual affects no one but oneself.”