Dpe Anti-LGBT Rerd, Pence Don't Sre All Gay GOPers

Contents:

• MIKE PENCE IS NOT ANTI-GAY – I’M A GAY MAN WHO KNOWS HE’S BEEN FALSELY ACCED
• MIKE PENCE ARGUED HOMOSEXUALY WAS ‘A CHOICE’ OR ‘LEARNED BEHAVR’ DURG 1990S FIGHT AGAST GAY RIGHTS ORDANCE
• DID MIKE PENCE SUPPORT 'GAY CONVERSN' THERAPY?
• INDIANA GOVERNOR SIGNS ANTI-GAY 'RELIG FREEDOM' BILL AT PRIVATE CEREMONY
• DPE ANTI-LGBT RERD, PENCE DON'T SRE ALL GAY GOPERS
• PENCE IS FIRST VP TO SPEAK AT ANTI-GAY GROUP'S VALU VOTER SUMM

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

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. 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.

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

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.

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.

DID MIKE PENCE SUPPORT 'GAY CONVERSN' THERAPY?

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. ”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. 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. The Republin-ntrolled Indiana state Legislature passed – and Pence signed – an amend versn of Relig Freedom Rtoratn Act that stated uld not be ed to discrimate agast the LGBT then beme the first ernor Indiana history to sign protectns to law based on “sexual orientatn” and “genr inty” – hardly the actns of an anti-LGBT ascendg to bee then-ndidate Donald Tmp’s vice printial pick, false accatns of homophobia agast Pence arose slanro mem started appearg onle falsely statg that Pence wanted to e electric shock treatments to “shock” the gay out of people.

INDIANA GOVERNOR SIGNS ANTI-GAY 'RELIG FREEDOM' BILL AT PRIVATE CEREMONY

Speakg on MSNBC last year, liberal activist Brandon Wolf said Pence wanted to round up gay people and put them “ncentratn mps” – a ludicro assertn that was not qutned by host Joy Reid. “The accatn is totally false wh no basis fact, ” Pence’s prs secretary, Alyssa Farah, rpond when qutned about the nversn therapy asked for proof of Pence’s penchant for nvertg people om gay to straight, the bt – ed the only – example people provi is a 19-year-old entry a mpaign webse which Pence stated he supported rethorizg HIV/AIDS fundg only if rourc were “directed toward those stutns which provi assistance to those seekg to change their sexual behavr. ”Dpe the ntued wails of liberals tent on keepg the lie alive about his supposed homophobia, Mike Pence has acted wh grace, a spir of cln, and a mment to be a vice print for all HERE TO READ MORE FROM GREGORY T.

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.

DPE ANTI-LGBT RERD, PENCE DON'T SRE ALL GAY GOPERS

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. 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.

PENCE IS FIRST VP TO SPEAK AT ANTI-GAY GROUP'S VALU VOTER SUMM

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. Pence attempted to license discrimatn agast LGBTQ people by signg to law a relig exemptn signed to create swiss chee out of nondiscrimatn move st the state:$60 ln lost bs om 12 nventns$365k of taxpayer money spent on a PR firm to help dampen the backlash and attempt to rtore the reputatn of the rpect of lnsIn 2007, Pence stoked far-right fear of LGBTQ non-discrimatn protectns by lyg about ENDA (the Employment Non-Discrimatn Act):"Unr ENDA, employe around the untry who posss relig beliefs that are opposed to homosexual behavr would be forced, effect, to lay down their rights and nvictns at the door.

For example, 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 bee the homosexual employee objects to passag the Bible relatg to homosexualy. In October 2016, an image appeared on social media accg Indiana's ernor (and Republin printial nomee Donald Tmp's nng mate) Mike Pence of supportg "gay nversn" therapy, particularly the e of electric shocks as part of the practice:. Although he didn't say so outright, the posn has been wily terpreted as signalg Pence's support for "gay nversn" therapy, which seeks to "cure" patients of beg attracted to members of the same sex.