Seeking to strengthen her position as an established social
conservative, Bachmann endorsed a pledge called the Marriage
Vow, composed by a conservative Christian organization, that
denounced homosexuality and pornography. The pledge also
lamented the deterioration of African American families by
harkening back to pre-Civil War America. Slavery had a
disastrous impact on African-American families, yet sadly a
child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by
his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an
African American baby born after the election of the USA's first
African-American President, the document read. Family Leader,
the group that circulated the document, removed the offending
passage. A Bachmann spokeswoman later told Politico that the
pledge did not reference slavery and advanced Bachmann's
position that slavery was horrible and economic enslavement is
also horrible in a swipe at President Obama's policies. This is
not the first time Bachmann has been forced to explai