Michele Bachmann Confronts CNN Anchor Soledad O’Brien Over ‘Gotcha Question’ on Homosexuality

(By Billy Hallowell, The Blaze) - On Tuesday morning, CNN‘s Soledad O’Brien and Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann squared-off in a somewhat uncomfortable on-air debate over a question about the contender’s past statements on homosexuality.

In a dialogue on the network’s “Starting Point,” Bachmann called O‘Brien’s recap of her past statements and a subsequent question — whether the candidate would like to “pull back” on any of her past controversial comments about homosexuality — “a bizarre thing to bring up.”

O’Brien said, in full, “You have taken a lot of flak for some of your very strong social issues, where you stand on them, and I want to talk about some of them. Your stance on homosexuality — and want to read a little bit of what you said — You said, at the Educators Conference in 2004, ‘Gays live a very sad life,’ and that ‘it’s part of Satan’ And that’s quote. You’ve taken a lot of flak for that. Do you pull back on any of that?”