Michele Bachmann signs bizarre "Marriage Vow" in Iowa. Could this be another shot at Sarah Palin?

Apparently a group called "The Family Leader" has created a truly disturbing document that they are asking the candidates to sign onto.

Michele Bachmann, did not hesitate to snatch up the pen and put her John Hancock on it. (Oh let me explain to the Sarah Palin/Michele Bachmann crowd that John Hancock was a signer on the Declaration of Independence. In other words, an ACTUAL Founding Father.)

Here is the PDF of the vow, and a few excerpts from the preamble for your perusal.:

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.

LBJ‟s 1965 War on Poverty was triggered in part by the famous “Moynihan Report” finding that the black out-of-wedlock birthrate had hit 26%; today, the white rate exceeds that, the overall rate is 41%, and over 70% of African-American babies are born to single parents– a prime sociological indicator for poverty, pathology and prison regardless of race or ethnicity. (Hello Bristol!)

About one million U.S. children suffer through divorce each year – the outcome of about half of all first marriages and about 60 percent of remarriages, disproportionately affecting economically-vulnerable families. (It appears that if Sarah wants to get the support from groups like this she will have no choice but to continue with her sham of a marriage, at least until after she quits any brief campaign she might launch. That is good employment news for Todd in this tough job market.)

Next we have the actual pledge itself:

The Candidate Vow:

Therefore, in any elected or appointed capacity by which I may have the honor of serving our fellow citizens in these United States, I the undersigned do hereby solemnly vow* to honor and to cherish, to defend and to uphold, the Institution of Marriage as only between one man and one woman. I vow* to do so through my:

Personal fidelity to my spouse.

Respect for the marital bonds of others.

Official fidelity to the U.S. Constitution, supporting the elevation of none but faithful constitutionalists as judges or justices.

Vigorous opposition to any redefinition of the Institution of Marriage – faithful monogamy between one man and one woman – through statutory-, bureaucratic-, or court-imposed recognition of intimate unions which are bigamous, polygamous, polyandrous, same-sex, etc.

And it goes on, and on from there essentially proclaiming only a marriage between one man and one woman (Though fortunately for Bachmann is does not specify one "straight" man and one "straight" woman".) as the ONLY acceptable form of marriage in this country.

I have no idea how many other GOP candidates might feel compelled to sign this vow, but it is pretty clear that it is designed to completely eliminate those like Newt Gingrich, Rudy Giuliani, and, in my opinion, Sarah Palin from the pack.

By the way there is MUCH more to read, including the footnotes.  Here are a few of those, courtesy of The Maddow Blog, for you to gawk at in amazement.

It is no secret that a handful of state and federal judges, some of whom have personally rejected heterosexuality and faithful monogamy, have also abandoned bona fide constitutional interpretation in accord with the discernible intent of the framers. In November, 2010, Iowa voters overwhelmingly rejected three such justices from the state Supreme Court in retention elections. Yet, certain federal jurists with lifetime appointments stand poised, even now, to "discover" a right of so-called same-sex marriage or polygamous marriage in the U.S. Constitution.

Over the long run, Sharia polygamy, multi-partner childbearing, demographic jihad and the persecution of Jews, Christians, blacks, artists, feminists, gays, freethinkers and other non-conformists poses a threat to Western human rights in general, and to American liberty in particular.

Just when you thought the Republican candidates could NOT get any more radical.  Holy shit!