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6 Most Anti-Gay Politicians in the United States

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Perhaps one of Bachmann’s most egregious assaults against the gay community is that she and her husband perform gay conversion therapies through her husband’s psychiatric business in Minnesota, despite the American Psychological Association’s warnings against it.

3. Mike Huckabee

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Current candidate for the Republican presidential nomination and former governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee is outspoken in his stance against gay marriage. During his time as governor, he outlawed gay marriage in Arkansas.

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Huckabee is also against same-sex adoption, citing that children should be adopted into “traditional” families. After President Obama appointed Eric Fanning, a gay man, Under Secretary of the Army, Huckabee wrote on his Facebook that “homosexuality is not a job qualification.”

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