Reports that VP-Elect Mike Pence said 'gay nversn therapy saved his marriage' are fake news.
Contents:
- MIKE PENCE IS NOT ANTI-GAY – I’M A GAY MAN WHO KNOWS HE’S BEEN FALSELY ACCED
- MIKE PENCE: GAY CONVERSN THERAPY SAVED MY MARRIAGE
- MIKE PENCE ARGUED HOMOSEXUALY WAS ‘A CHOICE’ OR ‘LEARNED BEHAVR’ DURG 1990S FIGHT AGAST GAY RIGHTS ORDANCE
- MIKE PENCE'S DGHTER AUDREY GETS ENGAGED 'GAY-CENTRIC' PROVCETOWN
MIKE PENCE IS NOT ANTI-GAY – I’M A GAY MAN WHO KNOWS HE’S BEEN FALSELY ACCED
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. * is vice president pence gay *
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MIKE PENCE: GAY CONVERSN THERAPY SAVED MY MARRIAGE
”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.
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MIKE PENCE ARGUED HOMOSEXUALY WAS ‘A CHOICE’ OR ‘LEARNED BEHAVR’ DURG 1990S FIGHT AGAST GAY RIGHTS ORDANCE
”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. 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.
MIKE PENCE'S DGHTER AUDREY GETS ENGAGED 'GAY-CENTRIC' PROVCETOWN
“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.