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In reply to the discussion: I don't want a President Pence. I want to keep Trump around as a pinata. * [View all]DemocratSinceBirth
(101,856 posts)50. Res ipsa loquitur
Two sources also recalled Trump needling Pence about his views on abortion and homosexuality. During a meeting with a legal scholar, Trump belittled Pences determination to overturn Roe v. Wade
When the conversation turned to gay rights, Trump motioned toward Pence and joked, Dont ask that guy he wants to hang them all!
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As governor of Indiana, Mr. Pence opposed gay marriage and signed into law a bill that made it legal for businesses to cite religious freedom when refusing service to gay and transgender people, for example a bakery that refused to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding.
As a member of Congress, Mr. Pence voted against employment nondiscrimination protections for gay and transgender people and also voted against the repeal of dont ask, dont tell.
His opposition to gay rights goes back at least to his first congressional campaign, in 2000, when he opposed same-sex marriage and the nondiscrimination laws that protected LGBT people.
He also argued for public funding of conversion therapy and said federal funding for HIV/AIDS treatment should be renewed only if the government could certify that no money went to organizations that celebrate and encourage the types of behaviors that facilitate the spreading of the HIV virus, according to an archived version of his campaign website.
https://www.snopes.com/news/2017/10/19/mike-pence-hang-gay-people/
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As governor of Indiana, Mr. Pence opposed gay marriage and signed into law a bill that made it legal for businesses to cite religious freedom when refusing service to gay and transgender people, for example a bakery that refused to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding.
As a member of Congress, Mr. Pence voted against employment nondiscrimination protections for gay and transgender people and also voted against the repeal of dont ask, dont tell.
His opposition to gay rights goes back at least to his first congressional campaign, in 2000, when he opposed same-sex marriage and the nondiscrimination laws that protected LGBT people.
He also argued for public funding of conversion therapy and said federal funding for HIV/AIDS treatment should be renewed only if the government could certify that no money went to organizations that celebrate and encourage the types of behaviors that facilitate the spreading of the HIV virus, according to an archived version of his campaign website.
https://www.snopes.com/news/2017/10/19/mike-pence-hang-gay-people/
Everything that is bad about Trump is bad about Pence. The latter just does a better job of camouflaging it. The former doesn't care.
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I don't want a President Pence. I want to keep Trump around as a pinata. * [View all]
DemocratSinceBirth
Aug 2018
OP
Nope. Removing a mentally insane man from the Presidency is priority number one.
Tommy_Carcetti
Aug 2018
#3
IMHO Americans don't like theocrats, and Pence has the charisma of a soggy diaper
emulatorloo
Aug 2018
#26
And Carter didn't exactly win against him in a landslide in 1976 as I recall
Proud Liberal Dem
Aug 2018
#33
I was going to say we could figure out which crimes Pence committed and get rid of him,
Frustratedlady
Aug 2018
#6
People of color can't afford to keep around a person who DIRECTLY harms their children by the 1000s
uponit7771
Aug 2018
#20
The sweet spot for Democrats is to say that Mueller should get to finish his job.
DemocratSinceBirth
Aug 2018
#37