Reports that VP-Elect Mike Pence said 'gay nversn therapy saved his marriage' are fake news.
Contents:
- MIKE PENCE ARGUED HOMOSEXUALY WAS ‘A CHOICE’ OR ‘LEARNED BEHAVR’ DURG 1990S FIGHT AGAST GAY RIGHTS ORDANCE
- DID MIKE PENCE SUPPORT 'GAY CONVERSN' THERAPY?
- WHAT ARE MIKE PENCE'S VIEWS ON GAY MARRIAGE? HIS HISTORY IS ONE OF OPPOSN
- MIKE PENCE: GAY CONVERSN THERAPY SAVED MY MARRIAGE
- WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT GOV. MIKE PENCE'S POSN ON GAY RIGHTS OVER THE YEARS
- MIKE PENCE IS NOT ANTI-GAY – I’M A GAY MAN WHO KNOWS HE’S BEEN FALSELY ACCED
- MIKE PENCE SAID THE 1990S THAT BEG GAY WAS 'A CHOICE' OR A 'LEARNED BEHAVR,' BUT THE WHE HOE SAYS HE ISN'T 'ANTI-GAY'
MIKE PENCE ARGUED HOMOSEXUALY WAS ‘A CHOICE’ OR ‘LEARNED BEHAVR’ DURG 1990S FIGHT AGAST GAY RIGHTS ORDANCE
Mike Pence, Donald Tmp's nng mate, opposed gay marriage, endg Don't Ask Don't Tell and fightg workplace discrimatn. * mike pence gay views *
Read More: Donald Tmp Nam Veep Pick on Twter Here are some of the statements and posns Pence had has related to LGBT issu: He said gay upl signaled ‘societal llapse’ In 2006, as head of the Republin Study Commtee, a group of the 100 most-nservative Hoe members, Pence rose support of a nstutnal amendment that would have fed marriage as between a man and a woman. Read More: Why Donald Tmp Picked Mike Pence as Runng Mate He opposed the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Pence favored the longtime ary policy of not lettg soldiers openly intify as gay. Vice Print Mike Pence once argued that homosexualy was a choice durg his fight the early 1990s agast lol efforts Indiana to ban discrimatn based on sexual orientatn.
DID MIKE PENCE SUPPORT 'GAY CONVERSN' THERAPY?
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But scty of Pence’s rerd on LGBT issu tensified recently when Whe Hoe Deputy prs secretary Judd Deere suggted last week a tweet that the vice print wasn’t anti-gay bee he was havg lunch wh the Irish prime mister, who is gay, and his partner durg a state vis.
The ltle-explored episo the 1990s, unearthed lol newspaper clippgs durg a eper KFile review of Pence’s rerd on LGBT issu, highlights an early wdow to the now-vice print’s public activism and views opposn of gay rights. Pence argued the 1990s that, unlike protectns for Ain Amerins, homosexuals choose or learn to be gay and was part of a “grassroots-generated movement for regnn of homosexual rights” natnwi. I do not choose whether I am a black Amerin … the great vast majory of the psychologil muny says homosexualy at a very mimum is a choice by the dividual, and at the maximum, is a learned behavr.
WHAT ARE MIKE PENCE'S VIEWS ON GAY MARRIAGE? HIS HISTORY IS ONE OF OPPOSN
Vice Print Pence has been falsely acced of beg anti-gay. As a gay man, I know he rpects all of and oppos discrimatn agast LGBT Amerins. * mike pence gay views *
The Amerin Psychologil Associatn said 1992 that data did not support the view that homosexualy was a choice and studi at the time the 1990s suggted homosexualy was blogil and geic.
MIKE PENCE: GAY CONVERSN THERAPY SAVED MY MARRIAGE
The Whe Hoe said Mike Pence uldn't be lled 'anti-gay' after dg wh the Irish prime mister and his partner spe Pence's track rerd. * mike pence gay views *
The arguments ma the 1990s by Pence would echo those he later emphasized when he ran for Congrs 2000 when his platform protted extendg civil rights protectns to gay Amerins.
WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT GOV. MIKE PENCE'S POSN ON GAY RIGHTS OVER THE YEARS
But the 1990s ments show for the first time Pence llg homosexualy a choice and offer a clearer view to Pence’s view on gay Amerins at the time. Dignatg gay Amerins worthy of such protectns unr the law, Pence said, would open “a Pandora’s Box of legal rights and legal difficulti” and was part of grassroots movements by gay activists for creasg their rights.
The ordance, which featured exemptns for church and church-affiliated groups, would give a group of ne people appoted by the mayor the abily to vtigate and mediate discrimatn plats agast homosexual or bi-sexual rints hog, public acmodatns, and employment.
MIKE PENCE IS NOT ANTI-GAY – I’M A GAY MAN WHO KNOWS HE’S BEEN FALSELY ACCED
Public opn polls the US at the time were equally divid over whether homosexualy should be accepted by society and many of the ballot iativ 1992 aimed at nouncg homosexualy or repealg measur that protected homosexuals om discrimatn had mixed rults.
MIKE PENCE SAID THE 1990S THAT BEG GAY WAS 'A CHOICE' OR A 'LEARNED BEHAVR,' BUT THE WHE HOE SAYS HE ISN'T 'ANTI-GAY'
Though some rints and relig misters argued agast the measure bee they said homosexualy was a s and they did not want to hire or rent to homosexuals, Pence and the Indiana Policy Review opposed the measure on public policy grounds.
“It opens up om a legal standpot … a Pandora’s Box of legal rights and legal difficulti once you intify homosexuals as a discrete and sular mory.