Welfare queen Michele Bachmann: $30,000 from MN seeds her husband's quack health practice

[BurtWorm]

From Minnesota resident PZ Myers:

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/scienceblogs/pharyngula/~3/HOiDesANniQ/republican_welfare.php

Guess who has been the recipient of state funds for their superstition scam? Michele Bachmann and her husband!

Bachmann and Associates, Inc., a counseling center that receives state funds and is owned by Rep. Michele Bachmann and her husband, Dr. Marcus Bachmann, uses counseling methods steeped in fundamentalist Christianity, raising questions about its use of taxpayer money.

Founded in 2003, Bachmann's clinic has taken in nearly $30,000 in state funds since 2007. Dr. Bachmann has said publicly that God heals people at his clinic and that Jesus Christ is the "Almighty Counselor."

"We are distinctly a Christian counseling agency here in the Twin Cities," he told KKMS radio in 2008. "We have 27 Christian counselors, Christ-centered, very strong in our understanding of who the Almighty Counselor is, and as we rely on God's word and the Almighty Counselor, we have the opportunity to change people's lives."

Here's how the quacks at this place describe their work:

"Jesus as the Son of God is the Savior, Healer, and intimate Lover of my soul," said one therapist on the clinic's Web site. "He invites those He calls to join Him on a personal journey to the Cross. Our entire being is healed and restored (body, soul, and spirit) as we surrender 'our way' for 'His way.'"

So this 'organization', basically a front for the Bachmann family con game, is getting state money…and on top of that, it's flamboyantly religious, little more than a church masquerading as therapy.

It's corruption, plain and simple. But then, that's what these Republicans do best.

[UTUSN]

1. K&R #3 n/t

[FSogol]

2. K & R. n/t

[Bonhomme Richard]

3. So, they take people who have their heads pretty well screwed up and

screw them up further with their own particular brand of mumbo-jumbo witchdoctor healthcare.....And at the taxpayers expense to boot.

[burnsei sensei]

4. "Christian" counseling is not counseling.

It's preaching.
Get real.
Withdraw the aid or demand it be paid back.

[Scurrilous]

5. K & R

:thumbsup:

[geardaddy]

6. She also gets farm subsidies

but is against it.

:crazy:

[Angry Dragon]

7. If god is the counselor

why is god charging??

Sounds like a cult, should be investigated.

Michael Bachmann says, "God is not free, if you want to talk to him it will cost you money."

Her family farm also has gotten $250,000 in farm subsidies.

How is that less government working out for you michael??

[Binka]

8. "intimate Lover of my soul"

That is fucking creepy.

[get the red out]

11. I've read stuff online

That these extremist Christian men's groups spout and it sounds pretty much like gay porn staring the Prince of Peace.

[izquierdista]

12. That's Prince of Piece to you

And what a Piece at that, not going to cover it with a cod, better get a grouper.

[get the red out]

13. LOL

:rofl: I wish we could all just find humor in these folks without having to be on constant guard because they are such true theocrats.

[mzmolly]

9. So many shades of wrong,

it's difficult to know where to begin. Not only are they hypocrites, but they're scam artists as well, it seems?

[get the red out]

10. What if this was a Democratic congress person

who's husband received and equal amount of money from the state to perform some kind of "New Age" healing? The cries of fraud and abuse from the Right (and Left) would be audible on the Moon. So why is this not publicized? It sounds like a scam where they get tax payer money to brainwash very vulnerable people into their power and influence. I'm sure they have to keep coming back for more Jesus juice that only Bachman, with his unique powerful relationship with the almighty, can provide (for a fee of course).

[Vinca]

14. And I suppose Jesus can't do all this healing for free.

Maybe the Bachmanns are taking a finder's fee. Sickos for the Savior? What a scam.

[indepat]

15. Bachmanns: the epitome of Jesus H. quackery and on the public dole

all the while blurring/making a mockery out of the doctrine of separation of church and state? Would not most of us be thrown in jail for such stark fleecing of the public? :shrug: