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Jul 12th, 2011

Summary: Undercover video taken from Marcus and Michele Bachmann’s Christian counseling center reveals that therapists are using prayer and Bible scriptures in “reparative therapy” to help cure people of homosexual tendencies. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on July 12, 2010, Aubrey Immelman featured Part 6 of “The Rise of the New Right: A Hardball Documentary with Chris Matthews,” titled “How the New Right Exploits the Media.”



Summary: Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann’s husband, Marcus Bachmann, plays a central role in her campaign for the Republican nomination. The Bachmanns, who are born-again fundamentalist Christians, share a bond born of deep faith in a particularly conservative form of Lutheranism (WELS), a common abhorrence of homosexuality, and an extreme Christian nationalist political ideology. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on July 7, 2010, Aubrey Immelman featured Part 1 of “The Rise of the New Right: A Hardball Documentary with Chris Matthews,” titled “Don’t Tread on Me.”