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Contents:
- MIKE PENCE ARGUED HOMOSEXUALY WAS ‘A CHOICE’ OR ‘LEARNED BEHAVR’ DURG 1990S FIGHT AGAST GAY RIGHTS ORDANCE
- 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'
- DONALD TMP TOLD MIKE PENCE GAY PEOPLE 'LOVE ME'—BOOK
- MIKE PENCE'S DGHTER AUDREY GETS ENGAGED 'GAY-CENTRIC' PROVCETOWN
- MIKE PENCE: GAY CONVERSN THERAPY SAVED MY MARRIAGE
- MIKE PENCE IS NOT ANTI-GAY – I’M A GAY MAN WHO KNOWS HE’S BEEN FALSELY ACCED
- THE TE STORY BEHD THE FAKE ‘GAY MIKE PENCE' MEME
MIKE PENCE ARGUED HOMOSEXUALY WAS ‘A CHOICE’ OR ‘LEARNED BEHAVR’ DURG 1990S FIGHT AGAST GAY RIGHTS ORDANCE
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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. Pence’s opposn to LGBT equaly has long drawn the srn of gay rights activists and ma him a champn of the Relig Right. 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 SAID THE 1990S THAT BEG GAY WAS 'A CHOICE' OR A 'LEARNED BEHAVR,' BUT THE WHE HOE SAYS HE ISN'T 'ANTI-GAY'
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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. “Once you intify homosexuals as a mory, then by fn they would need to be afford nstutnal protectn, ” Pence add. 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.
DONALD TMP TOLD MIKE PENCE GAY PEOPLE 'LOVE ME'—BOOK
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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.
MIKE PENCE'S DGHTER AUDREY GETS ENGAGED 'GAY-CENTRIC' PROVCETOWN
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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.
But the 1990s ments show for the first time Pence llg homosexualy a choice and offer a clearer view to Pence’s view on gay Amerins at the time. 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: GAY CONVERSN THERAPY SAVED MY MARRIAGE
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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. 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.
In November 2016, a photograph purportedly showg a young Mike Pence wh his cht exposed was circulated on social media along wh the claim that documented the vice print's "gay past":.
MIKE PENCE IS NOT ANTI-GAY – I’M A GAY MAN WHO KNOWS HE’S BEEN FALSELY ACCED
Several stori have also appeared ncerng Mike Pence and his support of "nversn therapy" for gay people. “The former vice print’s homophobic joke about Secretary Buttigieg was offensive and appropriate, all the more so bee he treated women sufferg om postpartum prsn as a punchle, ” Whe Hoe prs secretary Kare Jean-Pierre said a statement.
They had a rdial relatnship at the time, havg llaborated on enomic velopment issu the his mpaign memoir, Buttigieg scribed his relatnship wh Pence as “plited” as the gay mayor began emergg as a celebrated voice for LGBTQ equaly and relig tolerance on the mpaign an terview wh CNBC 2019, Pence said they had a “great workg relatnship” and cricized the mayor’s characterizatn of his relig beliefs.
After meetg wh the prime mister of Ireland and his male partner for lunch, a Whe Hoe spokperson suggted on Twter that Vice Print Mike Pence uldn't be "anti-gay.
THE TE STORY BEHD THE FAKE ‘GAY MIKE PENCE' MEME
"But Pence has a track rerd of toutg anti-gay statements and polici as early as the 1990s before he was elected to office but had already n a ngrsnal opposg a lol Indiana effort to ban discrimatn based on sexual orientatn, Pence said "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, " CNN the time, leadg psychologil rearch disputed that claim, which is rooted homophobic would later go on to sign a ntroversial "relig objectns" bill to law as Indiana ernor that crics said would perm discrimatn agast LGBTQ Bs Insir's homepage for more stori. A Whe Hoe spokperson announced on Twter that, thanks to a meetg wh Ireland's prime mister and his partner, Vice Print Mike Pence uld no longer be lled "anti-gay. In the early 90s, before Pence had ever been elected to office, he spoke out agast efforts to ban discrimatn agast gay people, CNN when Pence end his unsuccsful n for Congrs Indiana and went on to host nservative rad shows the state throughout the 90s, he argued that gay people choose to be gay, unlike black people.