Bachmann unlawful about homosexuality

Editor,

Since the latest Iowa Straw poll, all the major news outlets have been appraising Michele Bachmann as a serious contender for the Presidency.  

Unknown to most, made clear since 2004, is Bachmann’s view on homosexuality, when she stated on CBS, “It leads to the personal enslavement of individuals, because if you’re involved in the gay and lesbian lifestyle, it’s bondage, personal bondage, personal despair, and personal enslavement. And that’s why this is so dangerous.”

So, is homosexuality bondage? Does it lead to despair? Christian author Lehman Strauss has stated that homosexuality is an illicit lust forbidden by God, which seems to be the conjecture of Bachmann’s argument.  

I make this assumption because it is unthinkable to assume that 100 percent of homosexuals are in despair; therefore bondage and enslavement must be of “divine” origin. No one with any education can accept Bachmann’s claims. For that matter, no one with respect for his or her fellow citizens or human rights would entertain such a ghastly notion.

The American Psychological Association has stated that no one chooses to be straight or gay and the idea of homosexuality as a mental disorder is preposterous. All biologists know that homosexual behavior occurs across species.  

Biologist Bruce Bagemihl, who wrote Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity, lays out the scientific observation on this fact. In history homosexuality existed before Christianity could tell people it was wrong. Homosexuality was around even before the advent of monotheism.  

It is a shame that these facts have to be explained to the ignorant, but nevertheless as long as the Bachmanns of the world persist, it does.  

People who believe in civil rights will have to continue to let others know that relationships are not public discourse.

Furthermore, the heinous, derisive, hysterical way in which people like Bachmann have been able to retard civil rights of our fellow citizens, in the U.S. and in a post modern world, is very disgraceful, and this alone makes this woman (Bachmann) unfit to be our head of state or commander in chief.

Homosexuality is a not just a mode of sex, it is a form of love and this fact cannot be understated or overstated.

Jose Flores
UNM student