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If You Thought Michele Bachmann Was Out There... | Mother Jones
He would fit right in with the other R sickos who want to control every single American's sex life.
... women are "genetically predisposed" to subservience ... anti-sodomy crusader ... believes that humans and dinosaurs may have coexisted in Southeast Asia as late as the 11th century ...
slammed a gay counseling clinic at Mankato State University by comparing it to the Ku Klux Klan (both would be breeding grounds for evil—AIDS, in this case) and went undercover at an adult bookstore and a gay bathhouse in an effort to prove to a local newspaper reporter that they had become a "haven for anal intercourse." (A decade later, Bachmann would bring groups of supporters onto the Capitol floor to pray over the desk of a gay colleague.)
Quist's almost singular focus on sexuality didn't go unnoticed. "At one point," the St. Petersburg Times reported in 1994, "a Senate leader suggested he had an unhealthy preoccupation with sex, having devoted 30 hours to it in a single session."
Quist was a staunch pro-lifer who once argued that abortion should be classified as a first-degree homicide. When his pregnant wife died in a car accident in 1986, Quist had the six-and-a-half-month-old fetus placed in his wife's arms in an open casket at the funeral.
He would fit right in with the other R sickos who want to control every single American's sex life.