UPDATE: This is satire folks, from a comedy political website!
Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann’s husband stepped in it today simply by being himself. While shopping for his wife, Marcus Bachmann was refused service by a store owner because of her anti-gay religious beliefs. The owner of Dotty’s Dress Den thought that Marcus Bachmann was gay and therefore refused to sell to him. Owner Dorothy Holtz said “I didn’t think anything was out of the ordinary at first, although I don’t usually have men come in by themselves. He was very polite but the more he spoke, the more I thought he was different,” reported the nationalreport.net.
Holtz believes it is within her rights to refuse service to anyone based upon her religious beliefs, so she threw Bachmann out on his ear. “I was aghast!” said Bachmann. I’ve been shopping for Michele for years! I had no idea why the woman in the store turned on me like that. I thought perhaps she had suddenly become ill.”
God has a sense of humor after all. LGBT Weekly can’t wait to hear what Michelle Bachmann and Indiana Governor Mike Pence have to say about this development.
The source for this article is clearly satire. Totally made up. Look at their other headlines on conservativefrontline.com… I challege you to find any reliable source for any of their (admittedly very clever) nonsense.
Yes, We have added a disclaimer at the top. A link to the site was not enough.
Absolutely right on. We added a disclaimer because some thought the story real even with the link to the comedy website.
Actually, Don, it is covered at one of your sites: http://conservativefrontline.com/marcus-bachmann-refused-service-in-indiana-store-owner-assumed-he-was-gay/
That is a satirical site.
Don just because you have sex with men doesn’t make gay.
Yup, you are right. It came from a satiric website and it spread all over the internet without people realizing what the source was….don’t we all wish though lol
you realize that’s a satire site right?
Absolutely but added a disclaimer at the top because the link was not sufficient for some
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I can’t wait to hear what they have to say about this, too, but it should be interesting.
It is from the satirical site linked in the story, it is satire!
It gave me a laugh through all this hell we’re going through, so for that alone I was happy to see it!
Still… it opens up an interesting topic.
A store owner can refuse service to someone because they believe they are gay… that can be used as an excuse to refuse service to anyone… and I hope some store owner DOES refuse service to someone like Bachmann or another right wing nutjob on those grounds. How do you prove if you’re gay or straight?
On your knees, Mark.
Please stop trying to act like you knew it was satire before you posted it as “breaking news” Just remove the nonsense.
Y’all realize this is fake, right?
I am sorry, although I know it is a satire site, I think it does a disservice to LGBT Weekly to redistribute this garbage. The REAL news from Indiana is bad enough, I am disappointed to see homophobic satire redistributed on LGBT Weekly. A small disclaimer at the top of the article does not negative the huge headline and photo and the fact that it appears on other social media outlets as though LGBT Weekly is distributing this information.
It’s satire. Do you guys need a new fact checker because I rule at that.
Damnit, I was so hoping this was real. I’m embarrassed to say that I live in her former district, but so glad she’s gone.
Why people are being turned off to gays. It’s not much different from why people are tired or blacks claiming victim states even when they are the criminal. Stops the lies and hate. http://dailycaller.com/2015/03/28/marcus-bachmann-gets-the-fake-news-treatment-in-the-worst-of-ways/
Dorothy,
I wonder what religion you are. I am Christian and I am saddened by your hate.
It is good satire because it combines both an existing, probably fanciful, rumor (that Michelle Bachmann–ardent anti-gay–has a gay husband who tries to pray away other people’s gayness) and a legitimate complaint against the law: that it presumes store personnel can tell if a prospective customer is GLBT? Bravo!
Come on people. Clearly Backmann would have been shopping for himself.
This is fake. If you cite National Report, Daily Currant, The Onion, or Empire News Daily, it is satire. Ditto Landover Baptist Church.
Oh for the LOVE of GOD! IT’s freaking satire! Take it down as a “news” story. It’s bad enough when the conservative websites get taken in by this crap, but when liberal websites fall for it… We’re supposed to be SMARTER than they are.
It says it’s satire at the top of the story.