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Here's the deal with Mike Pence: If you understand how Pence handled the uproar about Indiana's innocuous Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 2015, you'll understand him
American Thinker ^ | 02/10/2022 | Matt Rowe

Posted on 02/10/2022 12:13:00 PM PST by SeekAndFind

On February 9, 2022, Andrew W. Coy asked, "What's the Deal with Mike Pence?" One thing is that former vice president Pence was always a weak leader.

While he was governor, Indiana passed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 2015, which essentially clarified a federal law that Democrats overwhelmingly sponsored and President Clinton signed into law. Then-senator Barack Obama supported a similar state law in Illinois. Indiana's version simply stated that, in civil cases, courts could consider religious burdens that the conflict caused. The law never said religion would trump any other right.

The left took this to mean that anytime a gay person came into conflict with a religious person — e.g., baking an LGBT "wedding" cake — Indiana courts would always decide in favor of the religious argument. The MSM went crazy and went out of their way to find a person in some tiny Indiana town who declared that her pizza place would never cater to a gay "wedding." The pizza place was canceled immediately by protesters from around the country.

Our state was attacked from every direction as being full of racists. Companies like SalesForce threatened to leave the state altogether. Angie's List disingenuously claimed that, due to the RFRA, it was canceling a taxpayer-funded expansion (that was soon to be voted down anyway).

Nonetheless, Pence and our lawmakers quickly wrote an amendment specifying that "the RFRA does not authorize a provider to refuse to offer or provide services, facilities, use of public accommodations, goods, employment, or housing to any member or members of the general public on the basis of race, color, religion, ancestry, age, national origin, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or United States military service."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: indiana; lgbt; mikepence
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To: Boogieman

Then he became Judas Pence.


21 posted on 02/10/2022 1:37:05 PM PST by Parmy
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To: SeekAndFind

He’s a corporate kissing Republican that became clear during the gay marriage right to dissent law controversy in Indiana.

Big Business was more important than First Amendment religious freedom.

Pence is not with the people, he’s with the powerful.


22 posted on 02/10/2022 1:42:12 PM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: Boogieman

Too bad he’s really a gay pedophile


23 posted on 02/10/2022 1:48:20 PM PST by The Fop (God Bless Donald Trump, Frank Sinatra, Joan Rivers, and the Fightin' Rat Pack Wing of the GOP)
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To: SeekAndFind

I was willing to give Pence another shot even after his cowardly performance in 2015 throwing Indiana religious institutions under the bus. Based on his performance as VP, however, that was a bad call. He’s just another GOP-e loser assistant democrat.


24 posted on 02/10/2022 1:50:28 PM PST by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: Sans-Culotte
I realized that Pence was Trump’s GHW Bush.

In the case of Trump though, picking Pence was a forced error. After the Access Hollywood tape came out and there was the fear of losing the Christian base he needed a "strong Christian" on the ticket. And along with the 'strong Christian' came the Trojan horse.

25 posted on 02/10/2022 2:54:08 PM PST by libh8er
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To: libh8er

Otherwise Trump would never have picked the weak, colorless swamp creature.


26 posted on 02/10/2022 3:00:59 PM PST by libh8er
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To: SeekAndFind; Impy; BillyBoy; GOPsterinMA; NFHale; LS; campaignPete R-CT; AuH2ORepublican; ...

This one was a huge red flag at the time about how Pence would fold like a cheap suit to the radical left lobby.


27 posted on 02/10/2022 3:28:12 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Plugs the Pedo - The Shart Heard 'Round The World)
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To: fieldmarshaldj; Impy; BillyBoy; KC_Lion; NFHale; LS

Pence looked, sounded and acted the part until it was his time to stick the shiv in deep and twist.

He is a traitor, period.


28 posted on 02/10/2022 3:36:03 PM PST by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj; GOPsterinMA; BillyBoy; NFHale; KC_Lion

Want an early warning sign? As VP-elect he went with his adult kids to see “Hamilton”, he was booed by the crowd and called out by the cast. He told his kids “this is what democracy sounds like it” and meant it as something positive, not a warning that democracy sucks ass. That made my hair stand up on end, this prick thinks he lives in an after-school special.

Honestly I liked the choice at the time but only cause it seemed like other finalists were pieces of crap like Christie. Would have been better off with friggin Rudy, who would have thought that dude that endorsed Cuomo in 94 would turn out to be the better Republican than most.


29 posted on 02/10/2022 4:10:05 PM PST by Impy ("We didn't steal the election, we swear!!!" - Sincerely, The Election Thieves )
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To: GOPsterinMA

As I have written before, I believe Pence & his CoS were the devious brainiacs behind selling the “federalism” approach to the China Virus to Trump. It was a perfect trap as it played to his federalist instincts to let states handle it, but in reality it handed control over to Dr. Fallacy, because no state had the research capability or “credibility” to oppose Fallacy, hence Trump unwittinely handed over the whole China Virus to this demonic spermflower on the basis of Pence’s plan.


30 posted on 02/10/2022 4:46:10 PM PST by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix) )
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To: SeekAndFind

Yes, I absolutely remember that and knew he could not be trusted as concrete conservative. Way too willing to give a mile.


31 posted on 02/10/2022 5:11:23 PM PST by Shery ( )
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To: LS

Yessir!

That’s exactly how it went down.


32 posted on 02/11/2022 3:52:55 AM PST by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Pence was a soldier, not a general, that’s clear — and not the best soldier either. Was it really in the cards that he could save the day when the general couldn’t? Don’t you want to arrange thing so that winning doesn’t come down to one weak guy months after everything else has gone wrong? And was winning really possible at that point?


33 posted on 02/11/2022 4:37:47 AM PST by x
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