And Speaking of Imbalanced…
Posted by blueminneapolis on 23 February 2007
Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann (whom I met and conversed with on several occasions while going to high school with her oldest son Lucas) has apparently now completely lost her mind. This is opposed to her partial insanity manifested earlier through her apparent fear of all things not heterosexual.
I’ve quite honestly been saddened to find out the kind of leader she really is. She seemed so nice before she was a state Senator and (currently) a US Congresswoman. I can recall one evening when she served Lucas, Dan, and I snacks one night while working on a US History class project for Mr. O. Always polite, she gave me the impression she was a loving, caring mother and wife. She probably was and still is. Now it seems that the loving and caring only extends to her immediate family and to extremists who share her views.
When I came out, I learned very quickly that some people care a lot about looking bad. In certain circles, my mother felt she would look bad if it became known she had a gay son. That’s honestly just too bad. She taught me to always be honest, so now she gets to pay the price for effective parenting. I think she’s learning that what other’s think about her isn’t quite so important as how she feels about herself. I hope she knows that. I know that I’ve said and written some pretty hurtful things in the past about her. You may even find some of them in the Archives here. Some of you may even feel she deserved them. I no longer do and I’m sorry for them.
She needs to know that its not her fault that I’m gay, and I think she knows now that the old wounds are healing and that forgiveness is there. I’m going to tell her tonight anyways. It is important to make sure such things are said, rather than simply assumed.
Which brings me back to Michelle Bachmann. Her actions make me sad, and it is altogether far too easy to write her off and hope that all her bad actions come back to sabotage her future happiness. That woudn’t be true to Love though, and I’m a Christian, so that word has a lot of meaning to me. So, I’m trying. I can forgive her for what she’s said and done to the GLBT community. I know I can. Doing it is a bit tougher, but if I can forgive Mom, I can forgive Michelle.
Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann, I hope that you find your mind again, and that you find a way to live in Love once more. I wonder if you ever realized how connected you are to the people you hurt?
