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

Contents:

• MIKE PENCE ARGUED HOMOSEXUALY WAS ‘A CHOICE’ OR ‘LEARNED BEHAVR’ DURG 1990S FIGHT AGAST GAY RIGHTS ORDANCE
• MIKE PENCE IS NOT ANTI-GAY – I’M A GAY MAN WHO KNOWS HE’S BEEN FALSELY ACCED
• DONALD TMP CLEARLY DIDN’T ‘ASK THE GAYS’ ABOUT MIKE PENCE
• WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT GOV. MIKE PENCE'S POSN ON GAY RIGHTS OVER THE YEARS

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

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. 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.

Chief among the, of urse, is stoppg the “homosexual agenda. 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.

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

He is far and away the most anti-gay ndidate to n on a natnal GOP ticket, which is sayg a lot. 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.

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.

DONALD TMP CLEARLY DIDN’T ‘ASK THE GAYS’ ABOUT MIKE PENCE

“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. Served on the board of an antigay group. Pence has had a close relatnship wh the antigay learship his state.

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

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. 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. 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.