Did Mike Pence Support 'Gay Conversn' Therapy? |

Contents:

• MIKE PENCE ARGUED HOMOSEXUALY WAS ‘A CHOICE’ OR ‘LEARNED BEHAVR’ DURG 1990S FIGHT AGAST GAY RIGHTS ORDANCE
• PENCE IS FIRST VP TO SPEAK AT ANTI-GAY GROUP'S VALU VOTER SUMM
• 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
• 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'
• INDIANA GOVERNOR: LAWMAKERS TO 'CLARIFY' ANTI-GAY LAW
• INDIANA GOVERNOR SIGNS ANTI-GAY 'RELIG FREEDOM' BILL AT PRIVATE CEREMONY

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

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.

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.

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

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DID MIKE PENCE SUPPORT 'GAY CONVERSN' THERAPY?

”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. 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.

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

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. 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. 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.

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. While Pence is bt known for his bumblg attempt to rebrand antigay bigotry as relig liberty last year, that was hardly his first foray to the fields of homophobia.

To prove that he wasn’t sglg gay people out, Pence was also willg to jail marriage clerks who supplied a license or clergy who performed the weddg.

INDIANA GOVERNOR: LAWMAKERS TO 'CLARIFY' ANTI-GAY LAW

Longg for the good old days of plete visibily for gay people, Pence predictably ignored the preponrance of evince support of repealg Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.

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

“There’s no qutn to mastream homosexualy wh active duty ary would have an impact on un hn, ” Pence argued, dismissg the repeal as “some liberal domtic social agenda. This has been wily terpreted to refer to groups that provi ntroversial gay nversn therapy treatments, which have sce been outlawed five ’s mpaign did not rpond to a requt for clary on his current posn on gay nversn therapy, and there has been no evince to suggt a shift his views sce has often said that he is “a Christian, a nservative, and a Republin, that orr”, and that Christian valu msage permeat his ngrsnal rerd. )Pence may ed overlook the way his polici affect gay people — as dited by his righteons on the issue of relig eedom, where he cri discrimatn not agast LGBTQ folks but agast Christian-right activists.

Sutton cried as he remembered his iends who took their liv the 1990s, a time when Mike and Karen Pence were actively fightg gay rights and supportg groups that scribed homosexualy as a s. Ambassador to Germany, Ric Grenell, a gay nservative Republin, said he and his partner have been warmly accepted by the Penc person: “Mike and Karen are great people, they’re godly people, they’re followers of Christ. ” A Whe Hoe spokman argued that Pence was not “anti-gay” bee of a rdial meetg he had wh Irish Prime Mister Leo Varadkar and his gay partner last month.