Michele Bachmann in Iowa; a trifecta of falsehoods on Evolution, Gay Marriage and a nonexistant US embassy in Tehran

First, Bachman's identification of the pseudo-science of "intelligent design" as science:



Then, Bachmann's exchange with Waverly, Iowa high school students on gay marriage, via Jason Noble of the Des Moines Register:

     BACHMANN: Well, No. 1, all of us as Americans have the same rights. The same civil rights. And so that’s really what government’s role is, to protect our civil rights. There shouldn’t be any special rights or special set of criteria based upon people’s preferences. We all have the same civil rights.

     JANE SCHMIDT: Then, why can’t 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’re a woman. Or they can marry a woman if they’re a man.

     JANE SCHMIDT: Why can’t a man marry a man?

     BACHMANN: Because that’s not the law of the land...

     Iowa law, it should be noted, does in fact allow same-sex marriage, as do several other states in the union.

(Video via Towleroad)

Bachmann's ridiculous contention that gay people have equal rights because they can marry opposite sex partners just like heteros, conjures up Anatole France's famous quotation:

La majestueuse égalité des lois, qui interdit au riche comme au pauvre de coucher sous les ponts, de mendier dans les rues et de voler du pain. (The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.)

Finally, there was Bachmann's boneheaded insinuation that the US has an embassy in Tehran, when it hasn't for 30 years. (Bachmann was commenting on the news that the British Foreign Ministry pulled all U.K. nationals out of the British embassy in Tehran after students stormed the building in protest.)

The Bachmann campaign's spin ("out of context, blah, blah, blah") was as implausibly stupid as the remark itself.

Bachmann's campaign immediately released the following statement: “Congresswoman Bachmann is a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence and is fully aware that we do not have an embassy in Iran and have not had one since 1980. She was agreeing with the actions taken by the British to secure their embassy personnel and was speaking in the hypothetical, that if she was President of the United States and if we had an embassy in Iran, she would have taken the same actions as the British.”