Amidst a breezy appearance before an enthusiastic crowd at pizza restaurant in Waverly, Iowa, presidential candidate Michele Bachmann debated courageous two high school students over whether civil rights included the right of same sex couples to marry. The Des Moines Register reports that Bachmann set the stage for the exchange with comments about “true tolerance” in the context of religious displays in school: “I think we have really forgotten what true tolerance means,” Bachmann said. “True tolerance means allowing people to express themselves and their beliefs. There might be people in this room that have no faith at all. You’re welcome here. Everyone is welcome here. But that doesn’t that mean that we squelch people’s speech that have religious-based values either. And we need to allow people to speak.” She then turned to Jane Schmidt, a Waverly High School student and president of the school’s Gay-Straight Alliance. A transcript of their entire exchange is at the source. It is telling that Bachmann, who represents the Anoka-Hennepin School District of Minnesota, where anti-gay bullying runs rampant, needs to ask what GSA stands for.
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