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Guess who has been the recipient of state funds for their superstition scam? Michele Bachmann and her husband!

Bachmann and Associates, Inc., a counseling center that receives state funds and is owned by Rep. Michele Bachmann and her husband, Dr. Marcus Bachmann, uses counseling methods steeped in fundamentalist Christianity, raising questions about its use of taxpayer money.

Founded in 2003, Bachmann's clinic has taken in nearly $30,000 in state funds since 2007. Dr. Bachmann has said publicly that God heals people at his clinic and that Jesus Christ is the "Almighty Counselor."

"We are distinctly a Christian counseling agency here in the Twin Cities," he 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."

Here's how the quacks at this place describe their work:

"Jesus as the Son of God is the Savior, Healer, and intimate Lover of my soul," said one therapist on the clinic's Web site. "He invites those He calls to join Him on a personal journey to the Cross. Our entire being is healed and restored (body, soul, and spirit) as we surrender 'our way' for 'His way.'"

So this 'organization', basically a front for the Bachmann family con game, is getting state money…and on top of that, it's flamboyantly religious, little more than a church masquerading as therapy.

It's corruption, plain and simple. But then, that's what these Republicans do best.

(via Religion Clause)

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