Michele Bachmann’s husband Marcus is doing some desperate damage control today, insisting that his clinics are not anti-gay, and denying he ever called gay people “barbarians”.

An audiotape circulating on the Internet depicts Bachmann as calling gays barbarians in a 2010 interview he gave to the “Point of View” Christian radio talk show.

“We have to understand: Barbarians need to be educated,” Bachmann’s voice is heard saying on the tape. “They need to be disciplined. Just because someone feels it or thinks it doesn’t mean that we are supposed to go down that road.”

Bachmann said that someone must have doctored the recording of the interview, in which he addressed child discipline as well as homosexuality and sex education. …

“I was talking in reference to children. Nothing, nothing to do with homosexuality. That’s not my mindset. That’s not my belief system. That’s not the way I would talk,” Bachmann said.

Judge for yourself whether he’s telling the truth; here’s the audio recording posted by ThinkProgress, from a 2010 interview on a Christian radio show: