Following the budding of her 2012 presidential campaign, Republican Representative Michele Bachmann has been facing new media scrutiny for her 2004 comments at EdWatch National Education Conference. Bachmann was quoted as saying, “It is part of Satan, I think, to say that, ‘this is gay,’. ” The ambiguous wording of her commentary generated some confusion on the part of anti-gay activists - among them, former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, who misconstrued her aspersions as criticism of “so-called ‘anti-gay bullies’ among schoolchildren,” and argued that, “When we try to censor the natural response to unnatural acts, we are unwittingly condoning those unnatural acts.” And added that furthermore, there is, “no proof whatsoever” that there have been any suicides among teenagers linked to anti-gay bullying.
Bachmann was quick to provide the missing context of her quote, explaining that she was referencing not the tendency of school-aged children to refer to anything they dislike as “gay”, but was instead lamenting the fact that a synonym for “happy” had been re-appropriated to mean “homosexual”, thereby potentially allowing some of the positive connotations of the word “gay” to be diverted unjustifiably. Fox News correspondent Greta Van Susteren clarified that in her original speech, she followed up her now infamous comment with the elucidation that, “[Homosexuality] is anything but gay.”
When asked for further comment on the story, Bachmann attempted to reinforce her previous remarks by adding that, “The liberal media is making a conscious choice to reassign ‘gay’ as a neologism for ‘homosexual’ in hopes of subliminally swaying public opinion, and consequently advancing pro-gay legislation.”
The word “gay” has in fact had connotations of homosexuality since 1637. ..
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