Here's What Mike Pence Says He'd Tell His Gay Child

Contents:

• 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
• MIKE PENCE IS NOT ANTI-GAY – I’M A GAY MAN WHO KNOWS HE’S BEEN FALSELY ACCED
• DID MIKE PENCE SUPPORT 'GAY CONVERSN' THERAPY?
• MIKE PENCE'S NEIGHBORS ARE TROLLG HIM WH GAY PRI FLAGS
• 9 OF MIKE PENCE'S MOST NTROVERSIAL STANC REGARDG GAY RIGHTS, ABORTN AND SMOKG
• HERE ARE SOME OF MIKE PENCE'S MOST NTROVERSIAL STANC ON GAY RIGHTS, ABORTN, AND SMOKG
• HOW GAY RIGHTS WON INDIANA
• THE TE STORY BEHD THE FAKE ‘GAY MIKE PENCE' MEME
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

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

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. 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.

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

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. 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. 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.

MIKE PENCE IS NOT ANTI-GAY – I’M A GAY MAN WHO KNOWS HE’S BEEN FALSELY ACCED

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.

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. 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. 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.

DID MIKE PENCE SUPPORT 'GAY CONVERSN' THERAPY?

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. 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. Tmp’s nng mate July, he has faced plats om groups cril of his rerd on gay and transgenr rights, who said he has long been an opponent of the gas ma by the L. It has been discreded by the medil tablishment and nounced by gay and transgenr Pence’s spokman, Marc Lotter, nied to The Tim over the weekend that the vice print-elect supports the practice, sayg a past mpaign statement had been misterpreted.

Groups rema skeptil, potg to his rerd of opposn to gay rights as a member of Congrs and as ernor of Indiana and an approvg reference to nversn therapy the 2016 Republin Party, what is nversn therapy, and why is Mr. ”Conversn therapy has been nmned by a range of groups, cludg the Amerin Medil Associatn and the Amerin Psychologil Associatn, which said was based on the view that homosexualy is a disorr, an ia “that has been rejected by all the major mental health profsns.

MIKE PENCE'S NEIGHBORS ARE TROLLG HIM WH GAY PRI FLAGS

”Brothers on a Road Ls Traveled, a support group for men who want to stop beg attracted to other men, said s method clus velopg “an ternal sense of masculy” and “disverg our te needs unrlyg some of our homosexual longgs and triggers. ”There are equently relig overton to nversn therapy, which is often promoted by groups wh ti to nservative Christian anizatns like Foc on the Fay, which says on s webse that “homosexual stgglers” n “leave homosexualy” wh the help of support groups like Homosexuals Anonymo or by “beg more like J.

“That is very specific language — some might ll a dog whistle — that has been ed for s to very thly cloak eply homophobic beliefs, ” Ms. ”Rece Prieb, the chairman of the Republin Party and the g Whe Hoe chief of staff, told reporters that the language did not refer to nversn therapy, but gay and transgenr groups did not believe him.

“One is ex-gay nversn therapy and the other is transgenr hormone therapy, and I hardly believe that Tony Perks was puttg a plank the Republin Party platform endorsg the rights of parents to provi their children wh transgenr hormone therapy. Mike Pence has remaed firm  his support of tradnal marriage — even the face of rapidly-shiftg public opn on gay his State of the State addrs on Jan.

9 OF MIKE PENCE'S MOST NTROVERSIAL STANC REGARDG GAY RIGHTS, ABORTN AND SMOKG

12, Pence ma clear he wasn't gog to viate om his relig nservative iology as a bate rag the Indiana General Assembly over whether to extend state civil rights protectns to lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr his speech, the ernor said he believed "no one should be harassed or mistreated bee of who they are, who they love, or what they believe, " but he also said he wouldn't support any legislatn that would rce relig the qutn is: What will ernor do if legislatn providg LGBT protectns lands on his sk?

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

Here's what we know about Pence's posns on gay rights issu over the years:Relign is a big fluencePence was raised an Irish Catholic fay Columb, Ind., where he and his three brothers served as altar boys. Homosexualy is typilly nsired a s both of those has remaed eply relig, often scribg himself as "a Christian, a nservative and a Republin, that orr.

HOW GAY RIGHTS WON INDIANA

Socially nservative activismIn the early 1990s, Pence was a board member for the Indiana Fay Instute, a nservative advocy group that has long opposed gay rights. "I will never waver my belief the importance of tradnal marriage to our society and our muny and the people of this great state, " he told the dience at IFI's 25th anniversary banquet opposed gay rights CongrsPence was a stnch opponent of gay rights durg his 12 years Congrs. In se after se, he ced worri about gay rights impedg on the relig eedoms of the 2000, his mpaign webse clared he wouldn't support feral fundg to re for people livg wh HIV/AIDS unls money was cut to programs "that celebrate and enurage the typ of behavrs that facilate the spreadg of the HIV vis.

THE TE STORY BEHD THE FAKE ‘GAY MIKE PENCE' MEME

"If an employee keeps a Bible his or her cubicle, if an employee displays a Bible verse on their sk, that employee uld be claimed by a homosexual lleague to be creatg a hostile work environment, " he said on the floor of the U. 2009, he opposed efforts to expand the fn of a hate crime to clu the victim's sexual orientatn, fearg that a pastor's sermon nmng gay sex uld be nsired hate speech.

"He also opposed Print Barack Obama's cisn to end the "don't ask, don't tell" ary policy that prevented openly gay and lbian people om servg the exprsed disappotment when the Defense of Marriage Act was overturnedIn the summer of 2013, the U. District Judge Richard Young led June 2014 that Indiana's ban on gay marriage was unnstutnal, Pence backed Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller’s effort to appeal the lg on behalf of the state.

” Those imag served to stoke the fear that the bill, which sets a judicial standard to weigh relig objectns, uld allow discrimatn, particularly agast gays and lbians. ”The Hoe chamber epted an ovatn – and among the first to stand appldg was Vice Print Mike that don’t seem like the rponse one would expect om an anti-gay bigot who supports so-lled “gay nversn therapy, ” that’s bee isn’t. Dpe false accatns ma agast him, Mike Pence is not a gay man myself – and someone who not only r eply about the issu but advoted on behalf of the LGBT muny myself for years – this is not an assertn I make TRUMP'S PLAN TO END THE HIV EPIDEMIC AND WHAT SPARKED ITThere is absolutely nothg – nothg at all – Mike Pence’s rerd to dite he se himself as a culture warrr who believ LGBT Amerins are the false accatns that the evangelil stalwart is a vilent homophobe who went out of his way to target gay people for harassment, opprsn, and even physil torture have dogged Pence for claim rurfaced last week, when lbian actrs Ellen Page appeared as a gut on “The Late Show wh Stephen Colbert” on CBS.

GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

Page ed a discsn of the recent alleged racist and homophobic hate crime agast “Empire” televisn star Jsie Smollet to cricize the vice is absolutely nothg – nothg at all – Mike Pence’s rerd to dite he se himself as a culture warrr who believ LGBT Amerins are the enemy. ”Page’s words reprent a distillatn of every anti-gay charge that has ever been hurled at Mike Pence – and they’re all the root of the vice print’s erroneo mislabelg as an anti-gay extremist is Pence’s admtedly poor handlg of the passage of Indiana’s versn of the Relig Freedom Rtoratn Act 2015 durg his term as ernor of the legislatn asserted that ernment “may not substantially burn a person's exercise of relign” – a rather specific law wh narrow applitns. ” Of urse, that wasn’t the se, but the false narrative spread across the natn, sparkg went on the offensive, clarg: “If I saw a rtrant owner refe to serve a gay uple, I wouldn't eat there anymore, ” while llg for a détente between advot of relig liberty and those workg toward LGBT kerfuffle nclud wh jt such a rapprochement.