Embracing Michael Pence’s Coming Presidency
When Mike Pence was the Governor of Indiana he made a major embarrassment of himself in 2015 by pushing a “Religious Freedom” bill though the state legislature that allowed discrimination against LGBT people if based on a sincerely held religious belief. He happily signed the bill into law in the presence of an invited group of religious leaders. Of course such a bill means that hatred of gays was now legal in Indiana. All you had to do was claim “God made me do it” and you could bar the door to gays who wanted the services of your business, or to rent your apartment, or to be hired at your organization. Moreover this animosity against gays was part of a long held belief that Mike Pence has maintained throughout his political life. Whatever the far right embraces, he likes it, urges it, and pushed its agenda both when he was a Congressman, and as a governor when he signed bills into law. He is the darling of the NRA, hates legislation restricting to