Taxpayer Funds Supported Bachmann’s ‘Christ-Centered’ Counseling Effort

Prominent critic of church-state separation and Religious Right darling U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) is back in the news.

According to the Minnesota Independent, Bachmann and her husband, Dr. Marcus Bachmann, have used $30,000 in state funds since 2007 to run a counseling center that “uses counseling methods steeped in fundamentalist Christianity.”

The news report indicates that the clinic, Bachmann and Associates, Inc., has been receiving government funds to treat low-income Minnesotans for mental health and substance-abuse problems, but it has done so by using biblical principles and Christian counseling.

“We are distinctly a Christian counseling agency here in the Twin Cities,” Marcus Bachmann told KKMS radio in 2008. “We have 27 Christian counselors, Christ-centered, very strong in our understanding of who the Almighty Counselor is, and as we rely on God’s word and the Almighty Counselor, we have the opportunity to change people’s lives.”

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of nonsense. Thought she was a 'small government', 'stop wasting our tax dollars', 'lower-taxes' Repub.