Wave of Teen Suicides Sweep Michele Bachmann's District

Teen suicides are sweeping Rep. Michele Bachmann’s Minnesota district, particularly among gay and bullied teens. The epidemic has alarmed residents as well as state public-health officials, and is leading critics to blame the Republican congresswoman and her antigay allies.

"I feel if I hadn't moved to this district my daughter wouldn't have died,” said the mother of a seventh-grade girl who took her own life. The young girl had climbed into a bathtub at her family home, put a rifle in her mouth and pulled the trigger.

Mother Jones reports:

The first was TJ. Then came Samantha, Aaron, Nick, and Kevin. Over the past two years, a total of nine teenagers have committed suicide in a Minnesota school district represented by Rep. Michele Bachmann—the latest in May—and many more students have attempted to take their lives. State public health officials have labeled the area a "suicide contagion area" because of the unusually high death rate.

Some of the victims were gay, or perceived to be by their classmates, and many were reportedly bullied. And the anti-gay activists who are some of the congresswoman's closest allies stand accused of blocking an effective response to the crisis and fostering a climate of intolerance that allowed bullying to flourish. Bachmann, meanwhile, has been uncharacteristically silent on the tragic deaths that have roiled her district—including the high school that she attended.

Bachmann, who began her political career as an education activist, has described gay rights as an "earthquake issue," and she and her allies have made public schools the front lines of their fight against the "homosexual agenda." They have opposed efforts in the state to promote tolerance for gays and lesbians in the classroom, seeing such initiatives as a way of allowing gays to recruit impressionable youths into an unhealthy and un-Christian lifestyle.

Much more here:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/07/26/998860/-Wave-of-Teen-Suicides-Sweep-Michele-Bachmanns-District

her raging closet case for a hubby the boot too by closing down his despicable "counseling center".

Young ears hear it on the news, hear it at home, see their parents support her...see the tide turning against them...frustrated and miserable they take their own life....

why do they think that constantly droning about the "evil of being gay" is not going to have a negative effect...

Something's really fucked up!

Minnesota has two great senators in Al Franken and Amy Klobuchar. An insane amount of gerrymandering had to be done in order to create a district where Michelle Bachmann could get elected.

Its the constituents, unfortunately. Once you get about 20 miles outside minneapolis and hit the 6th district, you're in deep red country. People who are afraid of St Paul/Minneapolis because there's lots of minorities here.