What we know about Gov. Mike Pence's posn on gay rights over the years

Contents:

• MIKE PENCE: GAY CONVERSN THERAPY SAVED MY MARRIAGE
• WHAT ARE MIKE PENCE'S VIEWS ON GAY MARRIAGE? HIS HISTORY IS ONE OF OPPOSN
• MIKE PENCE ARGUED HOMOSEXUALY WAS ‘A CHOICE’ OR ‘LEARNED BEHAVR’ DURG 1990S FIGHT AGAST GAY RIGHTS ORDANCE
• WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT GOV. MIKE PENCE'S POSN ON GAY RIGHTS OVER THE YEARS
• ‘THE VIEW': SUNNY HOST SAYS MIKE PENCE IS ‘LYG’ ABOUT HOW HE’D HANDLE HAVG A GAY CHILD
• HERE ARE SOME OF MIKE PENCE'S MOST NTROVERSIAL STANC ON GAY RIGHTS, ABORTN, AND SMOKG

MIKE PENCE: GAY CONVERSN THERAPY SAVED MY MARRIAGE

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. ” Pence also lled beg gay a choice and said keepg gays om marryg was not discrimatn, but an enforcement of “God’s ia.

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. On 12 November 2016, the Nevada County Soper web se published an article reportg on Vice Print-elect Mike Pence's "surprise announcement" to Fox News that gay "nversn therapy" helped save his marriage by helpg him to rist "certa urg":.

Indianapolis, IN — In a surprise announcement today, Indiana Governor and Vice Print-elect Mike Pence said that gay nversn therapy saved his marriage. The ntroversial Republin, who was elected the 50th ernor of the Hoosier State, has been a long-time proponent of a “Biblil view” on homosexualy and as a member of Congrs stated that the legislative branch “should oppose any effort to regnize homosexuals as a ‘discrete and sular mory’ entled to the protectn of anti-discrimatn laws siar to those extend to women and ethnic mori. “It[gay nversn therapy] was stmental helpg me overg certa urg, ” said the Vice Print elect an terview wh Fox News.

WHAT ARE MIKE PENCE'S VIEWS ON GAY MARRIAGE? HIS HISTORY IS ONE OF OPPOSN

Pence has prevly supported the ia of g feral fundg to treat people "seekg to change their sexual behavr, " but he didn't state outright such fundg should extend to electroshock therapy, which was part of anti-gay "aversn therapy" treatments until the Amerin Psychologil Associatn announced 1973 that they would stop classifyg homosexualy as a mental disorr.

MIKE PENCE ARGUED HOMOSEXUALY WAS ‘A CHOICE’ OR ‘LEARNED BEHAVR’ DURG 1990S FIGHT AGAST GAY RIGHTS ORDANCE

One nservative outlet, The Feralist, actually claimed this week that there is “no proof” that Pence is anti-LGBTQ at latt discsn epted last month, when gay U. Hoe member ― whout lookg at Pence’s larger, blood-curdlg rerd on LGBTQ rights and the extreme pronouncements he’s ma promotg bigoted polici the name of his relig a speech on the Hoe floor 2006, Pence, urgg support for the anti-gay Marriage Protectn Act, warned that same-sex marriage would lead to the “terratn of the fay” and, ultimately, plete and utter “societal llapse. ” Marriage is not jt the “glue of the Amerin fay” that would e undone if gays were afford the right, Pence claimed; fact wasn’t man’s right to give to others, as he said a statement that clearly revealed his theocratic impuls:I believe first, though, marriage should be protected bee wasn’t our ia.

” In a full-throttled and appallg attack, Pence stated on his 2000 mpaign webse:Congrs should oppose any effort to regnize homosexuals as a “discreet and sular mory” entled to the protectn of anti-discrimatn laws siar to those extend to women and ethnic Indiana ernor, Pence signed a “relig liberty” bill to law that would create exemptns for hirg or servg LGBT people bs, based on the employers’ or bs owners’ relig beliefs.

WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT GOV. MIKE PENCE'S POSN ON GAY RIGHTS OVER THE YEARS

The passage qutn regardg Pence’s support for nversn therapy om the very same 2000 mpaign webse where he attacked “homosexuals” as a group that should not have anti-discrimatn protectns:Congrs should support the rethorizatn of the Ryan Whe Care Act only after pletn of an d to ensure that feral dollars were no longer beg given to anizatns that celebrate and enurage the typ of behavrs that facilate the spreadg of the HIV vis.

‘THE VIEW': SUNNY HOST SAYS MIKE PENCE IS ‘LYG’ ABOUT HOW HE’D HANDLE HAVG A GAY CHILD

Former Vice Print Mike Pence told stunts at the Universy of Virgia that any gay child he fathered would be ments me rponse to a qutn om a stunt about what Pence would say to a child who me out as gay to him. Karen, The Washgton Post suggted, may also be the drivg force behd Mike's social nservatism and, particular, his opposn to gay marriage.

HERE ARE SOME OF MIKE PENCE'S MOST NTROVERSIAL STANC ON GAY RIGHTS, ABORTN, AND SMOKG

He lled homosexualy a “chosen liftyle” and warned that same-sex marriage uld e “societal llapse” that Christians need to build a “firewall” agast. His disapproval at the time was echoed his 2014 letter to a nstuent which stated, “I firmly believe that the sacred stutn of marriage is between one man and one woman, ” addg, “Congrs should oppose any effort to put gay and lbian relatnships on an equal legal stat wh heterosexual marriage. Pence said he “fully supported” Florida’s famo “Don’t Say Gay” law, otherwise known as the Parental Rights Edutn Act.

In 2009, Pence signed a letter mandg that a feral appotee be fired bee of his “role promotg homosexualy and phg a pro-homosexual agenda Ameri’s schools—an agenda that ns unter to the valu that many parents sire to still their children, ” The Hill reported. He also opposed the 2009 Matthew Shepard Hate Crim Act bee he felt would “advance a radil social agenda” and be ed to legally timidate Christian pastors for “simply exprsg a Biblil worldview on the issue of homosexual behavr. "No one should be harassed or mistreated bee of who they are, who they love, or what they believe, " Pence said, while promisg that he wouldn't viate om his nservative and relig iologi orr to extend state civil rights to protect lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr dividuals.

Pence also apposed gay rights durg his 12 years Congrs, se after se claimg that gay rights impe on relig eedom. In 2007, for example, Pence volized his fear that a bill that would protect gay and lbian workers om workplace discrimatn would be ed to discrimate agast Christians. "In March of 2015, Pence signed to law a measure that allowed bs to turn away gay and lbian ctomers the name of "relig eedom.