Indiana Gov. Mike Pence’s cisn to sign to law a measure that uld allow bs to turn away gay and lbian ctomers the name of “relig eedom” has left the NCAA ettg ahead of next week’s men’s basketball Fal Four Indianapolis.
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
- WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT GOV. MIKE PENCE'S POSN ON GAY RIGHTS OVER THE YEARS
- 9 OF MIKE PENCE'S MOST NTROVERSIAL STANC REGARDG GAY RIGHTS, ABORTN AND SMOKG
- WHAT ARE MIKE PENCE'S VIEWS ON GAY MARRIAGE? HIS HISTORY IS ONE OF OPPOSN
- AFTER RIPPON: SEARCHG FOR CLARY ON MIKE PENCE'S STANCE ON GAY NVERSN THERAPY
- DID MIKE PENCE SUPPORT 'GAY CONVERSN' THERAPY?
- NCAA ‘NCERNED’ OVER INDIANA LAW THAT ALLOWS BIZ TO REJECT GAYS
MIKE PENCE ARGUED HOMOSEXUALY WAS ‘A CHOICE’ OR ‘LEARNED BEHAVR’ DURG 1990S FIGHT AGAST GAY RIGHTS ORDANCE
Mike Pence, Donald Tmp's nng mate, opposed gay marriage, endg Don't Ask Don't Tell and fightg workplace discrimatn. * pence views on gays *
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.
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. * pence views on gays *
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.
WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT GOV. MIKE PENCE'S POSN ON GAY RIGHTS OVER THE YEARS
The Indiana ernor appeared to have harmed his prospects by signg a relig eedom bill 2015 but now he mt support Tmp’s more gay-iendly views * pence views on gays *
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.
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. Former Vice Print Mike Pence told stunts at the Universy of Virgia that any gay child he fathered would be ments me rponse to a qutn om a stunt about what Pence would say to a child who me out as gay to him.
9 OF MIKE PENCE'S MOST NTROVERSIAL STANC REGARDG GAY RIGHTS, ABORTN AND SMOKG
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. 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.
WHAT ARE MIKE PENCE'S VIEWS ON GAY MARRIAGE? HIS HISTORY IS ONE OF OPPOSN
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. “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.
AFTER RIPPON: SEARCHG FOR CLARY ON MIKE PENCE'S STANCE ON GAY NVERSN THERAPY
”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. 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.
DID MIKE PENCE SUPPORT 'GAY CONVERSN' THERAPY?
”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. ”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. 12, Pence ma clear he wasn't gog to viate om his relig nservative iology as a bate rag the Indiana General Assembly over whether to extend state civil rights protectns to lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr his speech, the ernor said he believed "no one should be harassed or mistreated bee of who they are, who they love, or what they believe, " but he also said he wouldn't support any legislatn that would rce relig the qutn is: What will ernor do if legislatn providg LGBT protectns lands on his sk? Here's what we know about Pence's posns on gay rights issu over the years:Relign is a big fluencePence was raised an Irish Catholic fay Columb, Ind., where he and his three brothers served as altar boys.
NCAA ‘NCERNED’ OVER INDIANA LAW THAT ALLOWS BIZ TO REJECT GAYS
"I will never waver my belief the importance of tradnal marriage to our society and our muny and the people of this great state, " he told the dience at IFI's 25th anniversary banquet opposed gay rights CongrsPence was a stnch opponent of gay rights durg his 12 years Congrs. In se after se, he ced worri about gay rights impedg on the relig eedoms of the 2000, his mpaign webse clared he wouldn't support feral fundg to re for people livg wh HIV/AIDS unls money was cut to programs "that celebrate and enurage the typ of behavrs that facilate the spreadg of the HIV vis. "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, " he said on the floor of the U.
"He also opposed Print Barack Obama's cisn to end the "don't ask, don't tell" ary policy that prevented openly gay and lbian people om servg the exprsed disappotment when the Defense of Marriage Act was overturnedIn the summer of 2013, the U.
District Judge Richard Young led June 2014 that Indiana's ban on gay marriage was unnstutnal, Pence backed Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller’s effort to appeal the lg on behalf of the state. While he was Congrs argug agast marriage equaly, Pence stated that beg gay was a choice, and that "societal llapse was always brought about followg an advent of the terratn of marriage and fay.