Antigay Counselor Marcus Bachmann Gets Presidential Appointment Bachmann, husband of former Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, has been accused of practicing conversion therapy. December 24 2020 5:54 PM EST Donald Trump has announced a series of appointments in the last days of his presidency, among them naming anti-LGBTQ+ counselor Marcus Bachmann to the President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities. Bachmann, the husband of former Minnesota congresswoman and onetime presidential aspirant Michele Bachmann, has been accused of practicing conversion therapy at his so-called Christian counseling clinics. He has sometimes denied engaging in the discredited and harmful practice, designed to turn LGBTQ+ people straight or cisgender, and sometimes said it’s up to the client whether to attempt such change. Undercover activists have, however, obtained evidence of conversion therapy going on at the clinics.