Indiana Governor Signs Anti-Gay 'Relig Freedom' Bill At Private Ceremony
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?
- MIKE PENCE IS NOT ANTI-GAY – I’M A GAY MAN WHO KNOWS HE’S BEEN FALSELY ACCED
- INDIANA GOVERNOR SIGNS ANTI-GAY 'RELIG FREEDOM' BILL AT PRIVATE CEREMONY
- NCAA ‘NCERNED’ OVER INDIANA LAW THAT ALLOWS BIZ TO REJECT GAYS
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. * pence lgbt *
After cricism om the bs muny, Pence signed an amendment to the law tend to protect gays and lbians.
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.
DID MIKE PENCE SUPPORT 'GAY CONVERSN' THERAPY?
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. * pence lgbt *
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. 2000: Durg his ngrsnal mpaign, Mike Pence said, “Congrs should oppose any effort to put gay and lbian relatnships on an equal legal stat wh heterosexual marriage. Further, Pence supported this rethorizatn only if “those stutns provid assistance to those lookg to change their sexual behavr”, an off-the-cuff endorsement for ex-gay nversn 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. District Judge Richard Young clarg Indiana’s ban on gay marriage unnstutnal. Don’t Say Gay/LGBTQ+ discsns schools.
MIKE PENCE IS NOT ANTI-GAY – I’M A GAY MAN WHO KNOWS HE’S BEEN FALSELY ACCED
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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. “Homosexualy is patible wh ary service bee the prence of homosexuals the ranks weakens un hn, ” Pence said.
INDIANA GOVERNOR SIGNS ANTI-GAY 'RELIG FREEDOM' BILL AT PRIVATE CEREMONY
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.
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.
Pence’s opposn to LGBT equaly has long drawn the srn of gay rights activists and ma him a champn of the Relig Right. 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.
NCAA ‘NCERNED’ OVER INDIANA LAW THAT ALLOWS BIZ TO REJECT GAYS
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.
“Once you intify homosexuals as a mory, then by fn they would need to be afford nstutnal protectn, ” Pence add. 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.