[{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BlogPosting","@id":"https:\/\/equallywed.com\/michele-bachmann-debates-students-on-gay-marriage\/#BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/equallywed.com\/michele-bachmann-debates-students-on-gay-marriage\/","headline":"Michele Bachmann Debates Students on Gay Marriage","name":"Michele Bachmann Debates Students on Gay Marriage","description":"By Kirsten Palladino It’s no surprise that Michele Bachmann (pictured) is speaking out against gay marriage again, but now she’s telling gay students that they can...","datePublished":"2011-12-01","dateModified":"2021-06-21","author":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/equallywed.com\/author\/admin\/#Person","name":"Equally Wed","url":"https:\/\/equallywed.com\/author\/admin\/","identifier":787,"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ca62cf123aaaf135c80b055249bacbda79de9226e11cdfcde6529bedf89683de?s=96&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ca62cf123aaaf135c80b055249bacbda79de9226e11cdfcde6529bedf89683de?s=96&r=g","height":96,"width":96}},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Equally Wed","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"http:\/\/equallywed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/equally-wed-lgbtq-weddings-logo.jpg","url":"http:\/\/equallywed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/equally-wed-lgbtq-weddings-logo.jpg","width":218,"height":60}},"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/equallywed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gay-marriage-michele-bachmann.jpg","url":"https:\/\/equallywed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gay-marriage-michele-bachmann.jpg","height":498,"width":431},"url":"https:\/\/equallywed.com\/michele-bachmann-debates-students-on-gay-marriage\/","about":["Marriage Equality News"],"wordCount":438,"articleBody":"By Kirsten PalladinoIt’s no surprise that Michele Bachmann (pictured) is speaking out against gay marriage again, but now she’s telling gay students that they can marry, as long as it’s to someone of the opposite gender. The Republican presidential candidate debated gay rights on Wednesday with two Waverly High School students in Waverly, Iowa, at a pizza restaurant, reports the Des Moines Register.Jane Schmidt, the president of her school’s Gay-Straight Alliance, asked Bachmann what she would do as president to protect GSAs and support the gay community.BACHMANN: Well, No. 1, all of us as Americans have the same rights. The same civil rights. And so that\u2019s really what government\u2019s role is, to protect our civil rights. There shouldn\u2019t be any special rights or special set of criteria based upon people\u2019s preferences. We all have the same civil rights.JANE SCHMIDT: Then, why can\u2019t same-sex couples get married?BACHMANN: They can get married, but they abide by the same law as everyone else. They can marry a man if they\u2019re a woman. Or they can marry a woman if they\u2019re a man.JANE SCHMIDT: Why can\u2019t a man marry a man?BACHMANN: Because that\u2019s not the law of the land.JANE SCHMIDT: So heterosexual couples have a privilege.BACHMANN: No, they have the same opportunity under the law. There is no right to same-sex marriage.JANE SCHMIDT: So you won\u2019t support the LGBT community?BACHMANN: No, I said that there are no special rights for people based upon your sex practices. There\u2019s no special rights based upon what you do in your sex life. You\u2019re an American citizen first and foremost and that\u2019s it.ELLA NEWELL, a junior at Waverly High School: Wouldn\u2019t heterosexual couples, if they were given a privilege then, that gay couples aren\u2019t, like given that privilege to get married, but heterosexual couples are given a privilege to get married?BACHMANN: Remember every American citizen has the right to avail themselves to marriage but they have to follow what the laws are. And the laws are you marry a person of the opposite sex.The Des Moines Register also reports that Bachmann “received applause for her comments throughout the exchange, and later one young man in the audience \u2013 Will Thomsen, of Cedar Falls \u2013 told Schmidt and Newell that Bachmann was a woman they should ’emulate.’Iowa law, it should be noted, does in fact allow same-sex marriage, as do several other states in the union.”Photo: Courtesy of michelebachmannforpresidentin2012.blogspot.com "},{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Michele Bachmann Debates Students on Gay Marriage","item":"https:\/\/equallywed.com\/michele-bachmann-debates-students-on-gay-marriage\/#breadcrumbitem"}]}]