Death of Gay Teen in Michele Bachmann's Hometown

http://youtu.be/SNXyj-nr5i4

Probably nothing has weighed on my heart more heavily recently than the death of Marcellus Andrews, a young man who was sitting on his porch w/friends and when he and a friend decided to go for a walk around the block, they were surrounded and attacked by a group of "youths" who called him by name and proceeded to beat him to unconsciousness and then continued to kick him in the face as they shouted anti-gay epithets.  And Michele Bachmann's silence has been deafening!  She has not even offered sympathy to the young man's family; and it should be noted that Mrs. Bachmann's congressional district has the highest incident of youth gay & lesbian suicides in the country.  Mrs. Bachmann and her husband, the other Mrs. Bachmann, insist that gays anad lesbians are "barbarians."  REALLY?!?  And what would you call the thugs who murdered Marcellus?  Heroes, no doubt.

The local police department have dismissed the calls for hate-crime attachments and Marcellus's family "does not believe he was gay."  But if he was or wasn't gay is immaterial, the thugs who killed him were witnessed shouting "fag" and "faggot" as they beat and kicked him.  This is the type of thing that will only increase should someone like Michele Bachmann or Rick Perry become President.

They've made very clear what their feelings about gays and lesbians are and have left little doubt about what they would do and how they would begin to dismantle the hard won rights we fought so hard for up to this point.