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BY BLAKE HANSON
 

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Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann may be the presidential candidate in the family, but hubby Marcus has been getting his time in the press after reports from ABC and The Nation claimed his clinic has used controversial “ex gay” therapies to quote- “cure” homosexuality.

And while Mrs. Bachmann has stayed mostly away from the subject -- Marcus is now, fighting back.

“We begin tonight keeping them honest... with the husband of Presidential candidate Michelle Bachmann speaking out about the counseling business they co-own. Breaking his silence after mounting tension and allegations that his clinic engages in so-called reparative therapy.”

Media coverage of alleged reparative therapy sessions has drudged up an interview with Mr. Bachmann from the “Point of View” radio show in 2010.

The website Dump Bachmann posted audio online shortly after...

“Barbarians need to be educated, they need to be disciplined and just because someone feels it or thinks it, doesn’t mean we’re supposed to go down that road. That’s what's called the sinful nature.”

Mr. Bachmann now claims he never said that.

Minnesota’s Star Tribune reports...

“Bachmann said that someone must have doctored the recording of the interview, in which he addressed child discipline as well as homosexuality and sex education.”

And blogger Ken Avidor, who originally posted the interview, is actually somewhat defending Bachmann. New York Magazine reports...

“Avidor says he's listened to ‘a lot of Marcus Bachmann audio,’ and he's heard him say before that ‘children are barbarians, and somehow they have this innate desire to do, I think in his point of view, wild and crazy things, very un-Christian things in his point of view.’”

So just what does all of this mean for Michele’s campaign? Politico offers this analysis--writing...

“The notion that Marcus Bachmann was involved in trying to ‘cure’ homosexuality would presumably be most damaging to Michele Bachmann in a general election, or later down the primary calendar. But there's also a circular nature to these things: Even some hard-line social conservatives who are sympathetic to Marcus Bachmann may balk at supporting someone who has been defined as unelectable and out of the mainstream.”

Mrs. Bachmann’s camp issued a statement on the subject -- but kept away from the meat of it by saying: “The Bachmann for President campaign is focused on the issues that people are concerned about, jobs and the economy.”

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