Luther broke away from the Catholic Church - so there lies the emphasis in their tenants regarding the Pope and the Catholic Church.
I grew up in that religion and a nicer bunch of people you will never meet. I didn’t see any Evangelicalism at all - perhaps she enhances it with her own personal beliefs. I saw no antisemitism either. What the Church “officially” thinks and what the people actually hear on Sundays may be two very different things.
All Christian denominations believe that they and their church are the true believers. Catholics think the same thing.
I think her quitting the Church was a bad move - it draws attention to it.
Dissolving an official connection with WELS could easily make sense for a politician who travels widely. Like many Roman congregations and some non-Roman congregation, they want her to be properly brushed up on her spiritual status before attending a Holy Communion. Without any WELS in Washington this would be difficult already. LCMS is the most conservative possibility that Bachmann could count on finding just about anywhere in the USA.
“I think her quitting the Church was a bad move - it draws attention to it.”
That was my point as well. Bachmann resigned from the Church six days before she announced for President . If she is so quick to throw her Church of many years under the bus when it is politically expedient, why should anyone trust that she won’t throw Conservatives under the bus when it is expedient?
After all, when most of us were supporting Ronald Reagan, she was organizing and working for Jimmy Carter and even attending his Inauguration.