Did Vice Print Mike Pence Warn Agast 'Gay Aliens'? |

Contents:

• DID MIKE PENCE SUPPORT 'GAY CONVERSN' THERAPY?
• ON TIKTOK, TEENS ARE IMAGG THAT MIKE PENCE NS A THRIVG GAY NVERSN MP
• TEEN ORGANIZ FIRST-EVER GAY PRI FTIVAL MIKE PENCE'S HOMETOWN — AND THE VP REACTS TO IT
• DID VICE PRINT MIKE PENCE WARN AGAST 'GAY ALIENS'?
• GAY-OWNED CLUB HOSTG VIP FUNDRAISER FOR MIKE PENCE AND THE REPUBLIN PARTY
• 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 supported "gay nversn" therapy, cludg the e of electroshock therapy. What's FalsePence never stated that he supported the e of electric shocks or "gay nversn" therapy. 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:.

ON TIKTOK, TEENS ARE IMAGG THAT MIKE PENCE NS A THRIVG GAY NVERSN MP

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. Acrdg to the Amerin Psychologil Associatn, electric shocks were one of the techniqu ed to addrs homosexualy through "aversn therapy" prr to the group's cisn 1973 to stop classifyg as a mental disorr. Psychotheraptic modali to nvert or “repair” homosexualy are based on velopmental theori whose scientific validy is qutnable.

TEEN ORGANIZ FIRST-EVER GAY PRI FTIVAL MIKE PENCE'S HOMETOWN — AND THE VP REACTS TO IT

The potential risks of reparative therapy are great, cludg prsn, anxiety and self-stctive behavr, sce therapist alignment wh societal prejudic agast homosexualy may rerce self-hatred already experienced by the patients who have unrgone reparative therapy relate that they were accurately told that homosexuals are lonely, unhappy dividuals who never achieve acceptance or satisfactn.

The possibily that the person might achieve happs and satisfyg terpersonal relatnships as a gay man or lbian is not prented, nor are alternative approach to alg wh the effects of societal stigmatizatn discsed. Creators on TikTok have taken to the popular social-workg platform to share vios that image a world which Vice Print Mike Pence assum the role of print and sends LGBTQ people to "nversn mps" meant to turn gay people mps have been found to be effective and harmful. In the vio, the creator pretends to be at one of the mps and greets her "gay iends, " her girliend, and the "TikTok lbians" wh a se, though her meanor turns sour when she pretends she has spotted Pence.

"Sce gay mp is g up this summer, I thought I'd remd you guys of the l, " a TikTok creator named Cas Wormwood said a vio wh more than 72, 000 lik. Wormwood, whose b on the social-media platform says they're a "Camp unsrlor at Pence 's gay mp, " then go on to joke that LGBTQ people would mata their inty at the mp, vg gay men to share beds and trans people to wear the clothg of their intified genr. Acrdg to CNN, Pence spoke out agast gay people the 1990s durg a fight for equal protectns for gay people his home state, Indiana.

DID VICE PRINT MIKE PENCE WARN AGAST 'GAY ALIENS'?

Pence said at the time that equal protectn should not apply to one's sexual orientatn bee he believed that people chose to be gay and that was a "learned behavr.

" In 2000, Pence's mpaign webse suggted that fundg for HIV/AIDS rourc should be renewed only if rourc were also "directed toward those stutns which provi assistance to those seekg to change their sexual behavr, " acrdg to Insir prevly reported, a Whe Hoe reprentative last year said that Pence uld not be nsired "antigay" bee he met wh the Irish prime mister and his partner, who is gay.

His wife, Karen Pence, received backlash 2019 for workg as a teacher at a Christian school Virgia that do not adm stunts who participate or ndone homosexual Whe Hoe did not immediately rpond to a requt for many of the more popular vios volved the Pence nversn mp meme origated December, the format was still popular January, and some TikTok creators began to rporate a new piece of news, the growg fear of an impendg World War TikTok creator posted a vio to the platform that suggted he wasn't worried about a war, addg that he thought Pence would send him "to mp stead.

GAY-OWNED CLUB HOSTG VIP FUNDRAISER FOR MIKE PENCE AND THE REPUBLIN PARTY

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.

Spirual efforts to acplish the same goal are sometim lled “ex-gay mistry. ”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 ARGUED HOMOSEXUALY WAS ‘A CHOICE’ OR ‘LEARNED BEHAVR’ DURG 1990S FIGHT AGAST GAY RIGHTS ORDANCE

”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.