1) Bachmann’s answer to the “submission” question would have been perfectly fine if not for the context — in the story Byron quoted, substitute “respect” for “submission” and the story makes no sense.

2) Santorum is inventing a dispute with Bachmann on same-sex marriage. They both favor a constitutional amendment against it. All Bachmann said was that under the law as it stands, the federal government can’t stop a state from according legal status to same-sex marriages. She was right. Santorum knows it! That’s one of the reasons he supports the amendment.