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You are here: Heartland News Politics and Law Michele Bachmann speaks for three minutes, is heckled by gay teen (DesMoinesRegister)

Michele Bachmann speaks for three minutes, is heckled by gay teen (DesMoinesRegister)

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Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, a Republican presidential candidate, was 30 minutes late to speak at her scheduled Iowa State Fair soapbox event and spoke for three of the 20 allotted minutes.

She said she was going to shake hands but left the makeshift stage quickly when 17-year-old civil rights advocate Gabe Aderhold of Edina, Minn., loudly questioned her husband Marcus about his counseling techniques to “pray the gay away.”

Most of her three minutes consisted of frequent campaign rhetoric that she says at many of her stops, such as her chant to make President Obama a “one-term president.”

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Complete article at Des Moines Register : http://bit.ly/mSxAfR