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Bachmann, Diana Hagee Open Up to TheBlaze About Women of Faith and Purpose

Posted on July 28, 2012 at 11:05am by Tiffany Gabbay
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Glenn Beck’s Restoring Love rally has gotten off to a tremendous start with FreePAC, “One Nation Under God,” and a day dedicated to community service. On the last day of the festivities, accomplished women of faith gathered at the Highpoint Church in Arlington, Texas for the “Open Your Heart: Faith, Character, Purpose” Women’s Conference.

Special guests will include Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, Tania Beck, wife of Glenn Beck, and Diana Hagee, wife of Pastor John Hagee, and TheBlaze’s Betsy Morgan to name a few. TheBlaze caught up with Representative Bachmann and Ms. Hagee to discuss what it means to have character and purpose.

Michele Bachmann

When asked why she got involved with Restoring Love’s Women’s Conference, Bachmann said that the topic of faith and character is of great import to her.

“This is really the heartbeat of the home,” she told TheBlaze. “As a mom to over 28 [children and foster children] kids for 30 years, faith, character and purpose really is the big thing. It’s about who we are as a person. When we look back over our life, it won’t have been about what we accomplished in terms of money or position and power, it will be about our faith and who were we as a person.”

“Our life isn’t a dress rehearsal, our life is a main event.”

Bachman stressed the importance of women opening their hearts to faith and believes Glenn Beck is making great strides in pointing women in the right direction.

“In my life it began with opening my heart to faith — what is my essence and what will my purpose be?”

Bachmann told me that when she answered that one critical question of herself, it helped her as a wife and mother – a role she says is the most important one in her life. She also said that the real legacy one leaves behind is their children.

The Minnesota congresswoman then shared her advice for young women trying to find their way on life’s path. She asked that each one understand and embrace her faith in order to become fearless. Fearlessness, for Bachmann, allows a person to tell the truth and live fully.

The Tea Party leader also had words of encouragement for women who may be facing adversity. Bachmann, who experienced “extremely challenging circumstances” growing up, said her character, purpose and faith was formed in the process of prevailing against all odds.

“Women really can have it all,” she told me during the interview, qualifying that their priorities must first be “in order” though.

“My priority was to be faithful and walk before the Lord, to be married and walk with my husband. To grow with my husband and with our kids.”

The former tax lawyer and Tea Party advocate also spoke extensively about her role as a foster mother, a role she and her husband took on with an “open heart.”

She believes God lays out many different paths before a person in the course of his or her lifetime, and said that her own political path did not reveal itself until “farther down the line.” Her desire to enter the political arena was catalyzed by witnessing the dysfunction of the public school system and its detrimental effects on the children she had fostered. To this end, Bachmann took the reins, advocating for academic excellence to give foster children a “leg up.”

“I didn’t need politics to be a somebody – I already was somebody in terms of my relationship with God, and as a wife and mom.”

Bachmann said her presidential run, as well as her Congressional career was born out of a desire to serve and stressed the importance of humility.

“It wasn’t about me. It was about turning our country around.”

During the gathering, Bachmann will talk about her time as a foster mom, her relationship with God and offer other women, particularly those from the younger generation, advice on how to find their purpose.

“I always tell them — God first. God will help you find your path.”

Invoking the biblical heroines Deborah and Esther, Bachmann said that women have played a critical role in the world from time immemorial. In fact, they can even “save an entire nation.”

Diana Hagee

TheBlaze also caught up with Diana Hagee, wife of Dr. John Hagee, founder of Cornerstone Church and the
pro-Israel organization, Christians United for Israel (CUFI). She is chief of staff for John Hagee Ministries television ministry, as well as special events coordinator and leader of Women’s Ministries at Cornerstone Church.

Ms. Hagee’s speech will focus on the importance and need for acts of mercy and why we must constantly “show love” – even to strangers – through charity, service and compassion. These “deposits” are then stored in what she dubs “the mercy bank.” The idea is simple: the more love and charity one invests, the more one receives in return.

No matter what the state society is in, according to Ms. Hagee, “a single person can start a movement.” She invoked women’s liberation to illustrate her point. What began as the simple frustration of a disgruntled homemaker who rallied her friends and neighbors to “action,” blossomed into an entire movement that changed the course of American society.

“When you come together – either for good or bad – it will make an impact,” she explained. “If you can change the [heart and mind] of even one individual, then that person can go home and impact their church, workplace and community.” This ripple effect is what Ms. Hagee believes will take America back to its founding principles and embrace of the Judeo-Christian ethic upon which it was founded.

During the course of our conversation, Ms. Hagee also touched on the importance of standing up for faith.

Referring to the increasing secularism of America, Hagee explained how it is difficult to find people in everyday society who still attend church. “We, Christians are doing nothing. Christians have been afraid to stand up for their faith.”

“If we do not use our freedom we will lose our freedoms”

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Comments (50)

Beachbaby
Posted on July 30, 2012 at 9:03am
Just another church who talks it but doesnt walk it. Just another church who ignores people who have been touched by God. Dismissing them and their message by implying many things. Too bad. Just keep those plates of unaccountable cash a‘comin’!
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Meyvn
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 5:10am
It’s fun to watch the wheat separate from the chaff.
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- its_time_to_arrest_our_government
  Posted on July 29, 2012 at 10:41am
  if shes a woman of faith why is she lying to cover up for Obama. does the constitution mean anything to these liars? no it dont. we the people must stand up and arrest these traitors. they have all lied to cover up for this fraud. this is an act of treason against us all. If the truth matters like Beck says why is he covering up for Obama too. article 2 section 1 says only natural born Americans can be president. that is a second generation American. both parents need to be Americans not just one. if the truth matters like you say Beck start telling the truth about the illegal in our white house.
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- its_time_to_arrest_our_government
  Posted on July 29, 2012 at 11:02am
  its really sad to claim your a woman of faith and be selling your country out by lying to the American people that Obama is a constitutionally ineligible lying fraud. shame on you Bachmann shame on you Glenn. I love you brother for what your doing but to lie in the same breath as you tell us the constitution matters and not be yelling from the roof about the illegal in our white house. maybe you need top ask God if half the truth is except able to him. i doubt it! if the truth lives here where is it?
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iwillnotbequiet
Posted on July 29, 2012 at 3:18am
LOL LOL I want to thank all you haters on this topic. As I was reading some of your post I just had to laugh ..Thank you so much. I needed that..Please keep posting as laughter is good for the soul. And you guy/gals are a HOOT.
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TopAssistant
Posted on July 28, 2012 at 9:04pm
Dora, you do not read much do you? How many dots do you need before you wake-up? Will you read the facts if I provide you the links to them or is your mine closed on this?
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TopAssistant
Posted on July 28, 2012 at 8:36pm
We must replace the RINO leadership or we are doomed!
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DOra Glasberg
Posted on July 28, 2012 at 6:37pm
Here’s one more fact and I am gone from this thread.
Bachmann couldn’t even reach a 2 digit number in her race for the Republican presidential nomination.
What does the rest of the country know that you folks CHOOSE to ignore.
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- Coralchristie
  Posted on July 28, 2012 at 6:55pm
  We choose to ignore the sexism and anti-theism of the country. Run with the lemmings lady.
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Jude 4
Posted on July 28, 2012 at 6:31pm
John Hagee & Tony Evans; bona fide false prophets. They speak “great swelling words of emptiness” and do not affirm absolutely, the doctrine which is “according t godliness”.
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DOra Glasberg
Posted on July 28, 2012 at 5:36pm
Yo DOGMEAT
Was that meant to be a factual statement?
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- jwt
  Posted on July 28, 2012 at 6:00pm
  much to do about nothing. Isaiah 3 is an example of what happens to a nation when things get out of order
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DOra Glasberg
Posted on July 28, 2012 at 5:31pm
“Good lives to over 2 dozen children?
‘_______Some were only in her care for 2 weeks.
You folks need serious reality checks.
She also refused to supply their name when asked during her Presidential run.
DO you folk do any reading or research.?
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- Coralchristie
  Posted on July 28, 2012 at 6:59pm
  Why would she subject children who were already fragile to the harassment of the main stream propagandists? Really? Give out names of children or even young adults who don’t deserve to be harassed by idiots? Your arguments are ridiculous, poorly thought out and in some cases just plain silly.
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DOra Glasberg
Posted on July 28, 2012 at 5:28pm
What silly people you are.
The Bachmann‘s subsidies for farming and Marcus bogus ’praying the gay away’ therapy clinics are
all on the record. What short memories. And the child care monies for all those foster kids.
Facts are such pesky thing as Ronald Reagan said.
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dontbotherme
Posted on July 28, 2012 at 2:41pm
It is good to see women who are strong in their faith. I’m so sick of those who the media worships.
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TopAssistant
Posted on July 28, 2012 at 2:29pm
Here are some questions we must answer before we will ever understand what is happening: Is there or has there ever been an effort to form a worldwide Caliphate ruled by Shariah? Is it one of the beliefs of Shariah all nations (people) who do not acknowledge Shariah are sinners and it is therefore the right of the believers, Shariah, to make war upon them? Is it OK to make slaves of those that do not believe in Shariah? Do believers of Shariah claim all Muslims who are slain in this battle for a world caliphate will go to Paradise? Do they believe in a prophet? Is this all written down and if so, where? Will atheists, Democrats, RINOs, progressives, communists, socialists, Marxists come under the jurisdiction of Shariah?
This is a part of a letter by John Adams & Thomas Jefferson dated March 28, 1786: “The Ambassador answered us that it was founded on the Laws of their prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every musselman who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise.”
The actual letter has been photocopied and it is here: http://memory.loc.gov/master/mss/mtj/mtj1/005/0400/0430.jpg

The typed version is here: http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~argyll/From%20JOHN%20ADAMS%20And%20THOMAS%20JEFFERSON.pdf
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Meyvn
Posted on July 28, 2012 at 1:17pm
Fine business! Two, REAL, strong women.
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All Pro
Posted on July 28, 2012 at 1:02pm
I see I struck a nerve.
Good!
The former IRS agent that could do nothing more than spout off soaring rhetoric and repeating Obama bad, me good. The girl that had to buy votes in Iowa. I’m ashamed to admit that she was on my short list when the primaries started. She hasn’t bothered to mention that our own CIA employed Al Qaeda in Egypt, Libya and now in Syria. I know she’s aware of it. More smoke and mirrors, another dog and pony show and progressive/fascist/conservatives will swallow all of it without questioning anything.
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john vincent
Posted on July 28, 2012 at 12:32pm
Do I sense a little jealousy by the Bachmann haters? Hi Dora G…
Articulate, knowledgeble, passionate, feminine, fearless, (muslim brotherhood) poilitically incorrect…

There are a few men that have her guts. A tried and true American woman with real convictions. You have a ton of support Michelle.
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- DOra Glasberg
  Posted on July 28, 2012 at 5:29pm
  She’s a national joke.
  You folks are so isolated.
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- john vincent
  Posted on July 28, 2012 at 8:08pm
  hi dora g
  at least u are reading. i do not mind the insults; as u say ‘facts are pesky things,’ quoting a good man, but it appears you have the ‘national joke’ candidate mixed up with one Barry Soetoro, aka, B. Hussein Obama. These posts were reserved for Ms. Bachman, and u steered it off course, so as it is ping pong,
  a few things 4 u to reconsider:
  -obama’s thousand checkered past-
  -his love fest with perverted hollywood-
  -his dubious associations that molded his mind- rev wright, Ayers, Islam, etc, etc,
  -school life that cannot be found
  -a dopey youth
  -his despicable attitude toward Israel
  -his 24/7 in your face
  -his acceptance of worship (obama mm mm mmm)
  -time fails Dora that it is HE and not Bachman who has desires for the raping of the Constitution-
  -it is HE and not Bachman who is adored by a stammering media ( NPR,CNN,NBC,CBS,ABC< Maher, the despicable 'down your leg idiot' C Matthews, G. Steppinoverous, MSN, PBS, AOL<yahoo, etc, etc; who is the national idol??? B. O. MM MM MMM wake up dora
  and again, God bless Ms Bachman
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Guitar Master
Posted on July 28, 2012 at 12:25pm
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If you will indulge me Mr. Bachmann sir, but you are married to one good looking babe (otherwise known as a “hottie!”
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antitheist
Posted on July 28, 2012 at 12:21pm
Bachmann has been influenced by dangerous and not well known institutions. She wants to fundamentally alter my country with her christian brand of fascism known as dominionism.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/08/15/110815fa_fact_lizza?currentPage=all
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- The_Cabrito_Goat
  Posted on July 28, 2012 at 12:36pm
  Ryan Lizza seems to be pretty obsessed with this woman. Reminds me of Matt Taibi of Rolling Stones, always chasing shadows.
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- mhannah.vera
  Posted on July 28, 2012 at 12:47pm
  Ha,ha,ha,ha,!!!!!! You believe anything coming out of New York? There are no reporters left in New York, they are lap dogs!
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pharmacognosist
Posted on July 28, 2012 at 11:55am
Michele Bachmann is great although I’ d be a little disappointed if she backed down due to pressure from within. I know little about Diana Hagee although a bit about John Hagee. I’ve read several of his books and realize he is a Great American. He is a great pastor as I watch him on TV a lot. I take my hat off to these ladies for their Christian stances in life. Without Christ there would be total chaos.
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DOra Glasberg
Posted on July 28, 2012 at 11:49am
Michele is no more a christian than Jackie Mason.
She’s a con artist and a hustler like Palin and Santorum.
And ALL TV evangelists.
Poor Santorum still doesn’t want to work to support his kids.
So he forms an organization and asks for donations (To live off) like the Zimmermans
and NOW, Zimmy’s parents.
WAKE UP people
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- IMCHRISTIAN
  Posted on July 28, 2012 at 12:08pm
  Dora … you can GO TO SLEEP knowing there are people here who love God and also we know to love not hate, truth not lies. Your message is full of venom.
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- pharmacognosist
  Posted on July 28, 2012 at 12:14pm
  You must have been subjugated to public schools and liberal propaganda. One day you will wake up and smell the roses. The liberal agenda will never work in the US any longer. The people are fed up with the communistic, marxist, anti – freedom agendas. Obummer lies with no remorse. The people of this great nation have awoken and you will see at the ballot box soon.
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- DOra Glasberg
  Posted on July 28, 2012 at 1:59pm
  The Bachmann’s only worship the god of money.
  Free money from that ‘over-reaching’ government.
  What silly people you are.
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- dontbotherme
  Posted on July 28, 2012 at 2:38pm
  Dora: You are a liar.
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- elishanana
  Posted on July 28, 2012 at 2:52pm
  I agree Dora – you are full of venum
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- JQCitizen
  Posted on July 28, 2012 at 4:14pm
  Oh, Please, Dora. Your facts and logic slay me. Please stop sharing, we can’t take your brilliance!
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- Dr Vel
  Posted on July 28, 2012 at 4:41pm
  The devils M.O. is to twist the truth into lies and falsely accuse. You are doing the same thing meaning you work for him. You have chosen your side and will have your reward. Michele Bachmann is serving our Republic faithfully trying to look out for the best interests and security of the American people. She has given good lives to over two dozen children she did not have to, and given them a chance at a good future assuming you and your kind do not destroy it. She works to build, you lie to destroy. She is doing good and all you have ever done is evil. You cannot provide proof, hard data to back up your lies yet the good she has done and is still doing is in evidence to anyone who cares to look at her life. America is blessed by her presence.
  
  Only hell is increased by yours.
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- Cape_Lookout_RW_Extremist
  Posted on July 28, 2012 at 11:00pm
  would like to see you put to sleep
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Carol1955
Posted on July 28, 2012 at 11:46am
People who dare to stick their heads out of the crowds and stand for something become easy targets. I am grateful to these women who should inspire the rest of us out of our sheeple trance and those of us with far less to lose should stand up and make our voices be counted.
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gmalling
Posted on July 28, 2012 at 11:42am
I hope the women’s conference will be recorded and appear on the GBTV archives.
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Creativethinker
Posted on July 28, 2012 at 11:18am
I admire both of these women, they have been tested and stand strong in their faith and convictions.
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Stuck_in_CA
Posted on July 28, 2012 at 11:15am
Michele Bachmann knows the danger of Shariah. READ THIS:
Honor Killing: Muslim Cop kills sister for wearing pants
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2012/07/honor-killing-muslim-cop-kills-sister-for-wearing-pants-.html
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- HumbleCitizen
  Posted on July 28, 2012 at 12:01pm
  I would add these two additional very important websites.
  Islam, The religion of piece(s). http://thereligionofpeace.com/
  How muslims are taking over America (and every other country). http://www.answeringmuslims.com/p/jihad.html
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- DOra Glasberg
  Posted on July 28, 2012 at 5:35pm
  What does any of this Shaiah nonsense have to do with Republican, Democrats and Independents?
  Shariah law will no more take over American than the Nazi party. Get a grip, folks.
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All Pro
Posted on July 28, 2012 at 11:11am
The only faith Bachmann has is in the power of the state. She’s a progressive fascist.
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- kdshell1
  Posted on July 28, 2012 at 11:18am
  Where do get that? Michele anti-progressivism and anti-state-control, where the state is god, but reliant upon God’s guidance.
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- MeteoricLimbo
  Posted on July 28, 2012 at 11:25am
  Why thank you ALL PRO. Its people like you that help others know their yin from their yang.
  Have a super weekend and peace be with you
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- dogmeat
  Posted on July 28, 2012 at 11:33am
  YOUR village is missing their IDIOT, GO HOME! I in all my years I have never heard of a DEM that let FACTS get in the way of THEIR LIES!
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- Godfather.1
  Posted on July 28, 2012 at 3:20pm
  @kdshell1
  
  She’s anti-state control unless you are gay, a woman, or like watching porn. When confronted with those issues she is all about state control.
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- DOra Glasberg
  Posted on July 28, 2012 at 5:33pm
  You will never reach these folks.
  Michele is also a liar and a crook.
  As was Santorum.
  All they know here is ignore facts and attack the messenger.
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- Pontiac
  Posted on July 28, 2012 at 6:54pm
  I’ve never seen her as anything more than a glib catchphrase automaton, not unlike Obama.
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- Hiswill
  Posted on July 30, 2012 at 11:20am
  Hey folks, this was a women’s conference focusing on faith, character and purpose not a political rally. There were 4,700 men and woman in attendance (sold out). All the women speakers shared their faith and how God works in their lives. The conference was very inspiring. Our lives are what we make it. Walk in faith and trust in the Lord.
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