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I like the way he has fought abortion and homers tooth and nail. Then, when businesses began to leave Indiana he softened up. I like that too. Our Party is here for business.
Mike Pence Has A Long History Of Fighting Gay Rights
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ByDaniel StraussPublishedMarch 30, 2015, 4:47 PM EDT 1194 views
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence's ® decision to sign a controversial religious freedom bill has landed him in the crosshairs of gay rights proponents, both locally and nationally. But Pence's latest move is consistent with his background of opposing gay rights legislation and championing "traditional" marriage.
Pence, recently, said he was surprised with the intensity of the backlash of the law, which bars Indiana from requiring businesses to serve gay people if the owners have religious objections. It's a move that comes a little over a year after social conservatives lost a fight over adding a gay marriage ban to the state Constitution.
Where gay marriage is concerned, Pence has made a few statements that are pretty benign compared to many Republicans. In 2014, he said the question of same-sex marriage should be left up to the states rather than the federal government.
"In the state of Indiana, marriage is recognized as between a man and a woman, and I think that's how it should remain," Pence said in 2014 in an interview with MSNBC's Chuck Todd.
However, after a federal appeals court ruling halting another court's ruling striking down the state's gay marriage ban, he also vowed that the state would not recognize same-sex couples.
Pence took the Indiana governor's mansion in 2013, following his time in the House of Representatives, where he made opposition to gay rights in general, and gay marriage in particular, his standard practice.
In 2010, Pence signed an open letter by the
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Mike Pence Has A Long History Of Fighting Gay Rights
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AP Photo / Michael Conroy
ByDaniel StraussPublishedMarch 30, 2015, 4:47 PM EDT 1194 views
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence's ® decision to sign a controversial religious freedom bill has landed him in the crosshairs of gay rights proponents, both locally and nationally. But Pence's latest move is consistent with his background of opposing gay rights legislation and championing "traditional" marriage.
Pence, recently, said he was surprised with the intensity of the backlash of the law, which bars Indiana from requiring businesses to serve gay people if the owners have religious objections. It's a move that comes a little over a year after social conservatives lost a fight over adding a gay marriage ban to the state Constitution.
Where gay marriage is concerned, Pence has made a few statements that are pretty benign compared to many Republicans. In 2014, he said the question of same-sex marriage should be left up to the states rather than the federal government.
"In the state of Indiana, marriage is recognized as between a man and a woman, and I think that's how it should remain," Pence said in 2014 in an interview with MSNBC's Chuck Todd.
However, after a federal appeals court ruling halting another court's ruling striking down the state's gay marriage ban, he also vowed that the state would not recognize same-sex couples.
Pence took the Indiana governor's mansion in 2013, following his time in the House of Representatives, where he made opposition to gay rights in general, and gay marriage in particular, his standard practice.
In 2010, Pence signed an open letter by the
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