Michele Bachmann and Anita Bryant

John Irvin at the Rake has a lengthy look at "For the Bible Tells Me So," a documentary film featuring the Reitans of Eden Prairie, truly a heroic family to many in the LGBT community, then Irvin turns to Anita Bryant, orange juice salesperson and anti-gay crusader, and finally he brings out Michele Bachmann and her shenanigans. It's lengthy but well worth the read.

There is no public record of Michele ever having expressed an opinion about Anita Bryant, let alone been inspired by her to devote her life to saving kids from becoming leather-chapped cruisers. But it’s hard not to see Bachmann as, deep down, being every bit a sourpuss as Bryant, even though she tries to appear as perky as Mary Tyler Moore (who, being another celebrity who spoke out against Anita, would not appreciate comparisons to her successor).

And I don't like to quibble and rarely toot my own horn, but...

A similarly strange incident took place that same month at the Capital, where a gay rights rally was being held. A security camera clearly documented Bachmann spying on the proceedings, crouching in bushes like a secret agent observing an enemy’s orgy. When asked about this by the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Michele snapped, "I had high heels on and I just couldn't stand anymore. I was not in the bushes."

The "security camera" was actually my friend Matt, and I'm ecstatic that those images never seem to die. Remember them?