Former Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann
this weekend warned that gay couples marrying and legal abortion
could lead to America's destruction.
Appearing on Understanding the Times
with Janet Markell, Bachmann, who spent much of her political
career heaving anti-gay rhetoric, denounced President Barack Obama's
“dangerous policies,” which she claimed have angered God.
“When we raise our fist to a holy God
and say that we are going to redefine marriage, we are going to be
okay with paying a Planned Parenthood to cut up innocent baby parts
and sell them for research, that clearly is a problem,” Bachmann
said. “And we have seen God render judgment in the days of
Noah, in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah and so forth throughout
history. What the prophets have told every generation is that there
is a just God and the people must repent and turn to him. So too in
this day of wickedness in our own culture, we need to do the same. We
need to repent, and we need to confess because a holy Savior is
coming to save us and redeem us from this sin-sick world.”
Markell agreed, saying that the pair
could witness “the Lord's literal return even before we finish this
broadcast.”
Bachmann, a 2012 candidate for the
Republican presidential nomination, was more explicit in her remarks
in March, when she blamed the
imminent rapture on Obama's support for marriage equality and a
nuclear arms deal with Iran.