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Related: About this forumBachmann could face lawsuit for ‘propagating complete and utter lies’
By Eric W. Dolan
Wednesday, May 8, 2013 16:49 EDT
A religious freedom advocate told U.S. News he is considering suing Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-MN) over allegedly slanderous comments she made in a fundraising pitch.
We are caucusing with our legal counsel to consider the most expeditious course of action we can take in a federal court to stop these bald-faced lies, Mikey Weinstein of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) said. About 96 percent of our members [at MRFF] are Protestant or Roman Catholic of our unpaid volunteers, at least well over 80 percent are Christian I say [to Bachmann]: Tell it to the judge.
Earlier this month conservative bloggers falsely claimed that Weinstein was behind a plan to court-martial Christians in the military who shared their faith. The conspiracy was quickly debunked by the Pentagon itself, which noted that proselytizing a form of religious harassment has long been prohibited, but service members are free to evangelize and speak about their faith.
But as of Wednesday Bachmanns website still stated that Weinsteins conspiracy with the Pentagon could prevent our military from practicing their own faith. She described Weinstein as a left-wing, anti-Christian activists and a radical. She also claimed that Weinstein had compared sharing the gospel to spiritual rape and treason, when he actually described misogyny, Islamophobia and anti-Semitism as spiritual rape and treason.
Weinstein accused Bachmann of propagating complete and utter lies.
As a proponent of the separation of church and state, Weinstein has clashed with fundamentalist Christians like the American Family Association and the Family Research Council. He described the groups as pitiable unconstitutional carpetbaggers who have taken refuge behind flimsy, well-worn, gauze-like euphemistic facades such as family values in an article published at the Huffington Post earlier this year.
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Bachmann could face lawsuit for ‘propagating complete and utter lies’ (Original Post)
DonViejo
May 2013
OP
Go for it I say. How has our country distorted the First Amendment so that Bachman's lies could be
okaawhatever
May 2013
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Shrike47
(6,913 posts)1. Hope he does. This could be fun.
Of course, it sounds like he's a public figure. Still sounds like fun.
Cha
(296,774 posts)2. 'bout time, bachmann got sued for Propagasting Complete and utter Lies"
Blowback on the monster? I hope so.
thanks DV
okaawhatever
(9,457 posts)3. Go for it I say. How has our country distorted the First Amendment so that Bachman's lies could be
considered free speech? I think (lawyers help me out) that you have to prove that it caused you harm, not just that it could cause you harm. Does the eroding of the reputation of an organization not qualify as harm?
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)4. If we could get a one year sentence for Bachmann for every lie she has told
She'd be in prison for life without the possibility of parole.