The mob on Marcus Bachmann’s tail, however, has moved beyond his quotes. Although he is a husband and father in a traditional marriage and family, some of his debunkers are suggesting there’s more than meets the eye in his anti-gay pronouncements.
No one has caught Bachmann in anything resembling a “wide stance.” No one has come forward with an incriminating text message. No one has even said that they know a guy who knows a guy who might know something. But that hasn’t stopped suggestions that Bachmann is a deeply closeted gay man.
Some of this is coming from rabid tweeters, anonymous commenters and a host of unreliable sources. But it’s also coming from people who usually aim a little higher. Observing footage of the Bachmanns dancing together, Jon Stewart remarked that Marcus was “an Izod shirt away from being the gay character on ‘Modern Family.'” Advice columnist and gay activist Dan Savage, who has made a point of fighting bullying with his “It gets better” campaign, nevertheless performed a campy imitation of Bachmann’s speaking style on his podcast. And gay conservative Andrew Sullivan also mocked him as having a lisp, calling him a “ssuper-sserial hunter of gays.”
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