I noted Michele Bachmann’s membership at an anti-papist Lutheran church the other day. She has now reportedly left that church and distanced herself, but maintains her open adoration for punk-rock evangelist, homophobe, pope-baiter, and Obama conspiracy-nut Bradlee Dean. A few select moments here from Bachmann’s favorite wingnut-preacher:

Context to the above: Martin Luther, the man who started the Protestant movement, was said to have entered the imperial city of Worms even though he was a condemned heretic. “Tell your master,” he allegedly said, “that if there were as many devils at Worms as tiles on its roofs, I would enter.”

Martin Luther posted the 95 Theses on the wall confronting the popery, that devil disguised as a minister of righteousness…

This next one is fun. Dean says that Catholic churches are full of old men ogling your daughters:

What I find disturbing — even after so much exposure to such things — is the complete erasure of any line between politics and religion here when Bradlee Dean reads forefather-founders’ words as holy writ right before he accuses Obama of being a Muslim. It’s at about the 1:50 mark.

Osama bin Laden didn’t call you a Muslim nation, Obama did. He’s called you a Muslim nation time and time again, even so far as to honor Osama bin Laden with a Muslim eulogy on an American blood-bought ship!

With Michelle Bachmann for a fan, you’re probably expecting homophobia. And you’d be right, with an extra topping of eliminationism! Bradlee Dean has a traveling act that visits schools and tells the kids it’s not okay to be gay. He calls gays “criminal predators” and advocates their mass destruction:

They’re trying to scare people into submission to accept the poor victims that just can’t help themselves from working death, and sin in every sense of the word. They’re lawless people and they’re playing with the fire that’s gonna burn them. As a matter of fact, I was just gonna call for, the next point that I was gonna talk about here, Kelly, was that Muslims are calling for the execution of homosexuals in America. This was just released yesterday, and it shows you that they themselves are upholding the laws that are even in the Bible of the Judeo-Christian god, but they seem to be more moral than the American Christians do.

It’s after the 50-second mark:

Need more Muslim-Obama nonsense? Bradlee Dean was invited to give an opening prayer at a session of the Minnesota House of Representatives, and just had to go for shock value.

I know this is a non-denominational prayer…in this chamber, but it’s not about the Baptists, it’s not about the Catholics alone, or the Lutherans or the Wesleyans, or the Presbyterians, evangelicals, or any other denomination, but rather the head of the denomination and his name is Jesus, as every president up until 2008 has acknowledged, and we pray it in Jesus’ name.

House leadership quickly had Dean hustled away from the microphone and brought on someone else to re-bless the proceedings. It’s at the end:

The juicy cherry on top of the nut-covered sprinkly whipped cream of this three-flavored banana split: UNMARKED HELICOPTERS.

(Founder Bradley Dean) says that the ministry is being targeted by the government because it tells the truth. On his April 11 radio program, he recalled an incident a week earlier which he claimed an employee of the ministry was chased by a helicopter. “There was a blue and white helicopter that flew down on top of her van as she was going to this [Wright County] Republican party convention. And then he swooped back down on her again.” Bradlee said that helicopters frequently dive-bomb their tour bus with “helicopters flying up to the bus and pulling off.” He said, “What they are trying to do is criminalize the righteous.”

What are the chances this will ever see one-tenth of the mainstream attention that Jeremiah Wright drew? Dubious, at best. Yet Michele, who says that Bradlee Dean’s ministry is “way on course. Because they get it“, is a serious contender. Remember, she told Wing Nut Daily World Net Daily that she would only run for president if she felt called by God. Speaking of Wing Nut Daily World Net Daily, Bachmann had planned to share a stage with Bradlee Dean in September — but the event has been canceled for low ticket sales. Check out the other acts:

Also scheduled to appear at the Kansas City, Kansas event were Joseph Farah, editor of the socially conservative news site WorldNetDaily, and Jerome Corsi, author of Where’s the Birth Certificate?

Corsi is the arch-birther and Wing Nut Daily World Net Daily is his favorite website. Yes, Michele is running for the birther vote. And the Christian punk rock vote. Very serious!