Last week, Rep. Michele Bachmann returned to her roots as one of Minnesota’s most anti-LGBT elected officials. During a campaign stop for her presumptive presidential campaign in Iowa for the religious right outfit, the Family Leader, she trashed same-sex marriage. And she got much of it wrong. Bachmann was the leading proponent of anti-LGBT politics when she served in the Minnesota Senate.

“In 5,000 years of recorded human history… neither in the east or in the west… has any society ever defined marriage as anything other than between men and women,” Bachmann said. “Not one in 5000 years of recorded human history. That’s an astounding fact and it isn’t until the last 12 years or so that we have seen for the first time in recorded human history marriage defined as anything other than between men and between women.”

Gay.com took a dig at Bachmann’s gaffe last month when she claimed that :the shot heard round the world” was in New Hampshire and not Massachusetts. She also got the facts wrong on same-sex marriage:

Since Bachmann and her aides failed to do a simple Google search on the beginning of the American Revolution, it should come as little surprise that they neglected to check her “facts” prior to delivering today’s speech. Had they done so, they would have learned that the first documented same-sex marriage between two men took place in Spain on April 16, 1061. The two men, Pedro Díaz and Muño Vandilaz, were married by a priest in a small chapel, according to historic documents about the church wedding found at Monastery of San Salvador de Celanova. With just a little bit more research, Bachmann and her staff would have discovered that same-sex unions, ranging from the informal to the highly ritualized, have existed since China’s Zhōu Dynasty (1046-256 BCE).

In addition to the items that Gay.com found, same-sex marriages were performed in the Roman Empire before the Christians took over around 350 AD. In the America’s, some indigenous societies recognized the marriage of same-sex couples, particularly the Two-Spirited members of those communities.

Bachmann also said that God told her to push for an anti-gay marriage constitutional amendment in Minnesota:

During the same Iowa visit, ThinkProgress asked Bachmann if she believed a statement by the Family Leader that being gay was as hazardous as secondhand smoke. She declined to answer the question: