From Ryan Lizza's enlightening
profile in The New Yorker, I learned that Michele Bachmann's influences include spiritual and political mentors who preach the literal «inerrancy» of the Bible, who warn Christians to be suspicious of ideas that come from non-Christians, who believe homosexuality is an «abomination,» who portray the pre-Civil War South as a pretty nice place for
slaves and who advocate «Dominionism,» the view that Christians and only Christians should preside
over earthly institutions.