I remember reading that Harry Truman, even as an old man, always left his office door open if he had to conduct business with a woman. What Pence is doing is unusual for today, but not unheard of. But what is to to anybody if he and his wife have agreed on this? Mind your own damned business. Maybe those who like to continuously dig for dirt are upset that Pence has denied them a possible source. The other possibility is this: it seems to me that a major problem that secularists have with God and religion is that they want to have it their way sexually, but they also know deep down that they are under judgment. They would rather have their tomcat morality, however, than repent.
It’s the Billy Graham rule.
I have never been a big fan of his politics, but he was a very decent man of the old-style Democrats, before the party became communist. I very much admired how he returned home after retiring and did not interfere with Eisenhower. This is my favorite photo of Bess and Harry, in retirement:
Orthodox Jews never can be alone with someone of the opposite sex other than their children or parents or spouse.