Thread by @debbiesideris

#LGBTVoices #ThursdayThoughts #Olympics2018

A short list of @VP history regarding #LGBTQIA
🔹supports state laws limiting which bathroom used by transgender people
🔹supports a parent’s right 2 subject #LGBTQIA kids to “conversion therapy”
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🔹supports nullifing all orders that bans anti-L.G.B.T. discrimination by federal contractors and another that protects the rights of transgender students
🔹"led a direct, massive and concerted effort in the state of Indiana to deny equality to L.G.B.T. people"
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🔹As governor 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
🔹voted against the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell.”
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🔹The Employment Non-Discrimination Act would have banned discrimination against people based on sexual orientation. Pence voted against that law and later said the law “wages war on freedom and religion in the workplace.”
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🔹argued 4 public funding of conversion therapy & said fed. funding 4 H.I.V./AIDS treatment should be renewed only if the gov't could certify that no money went 2 “organizations that celebrate & encourage the types of behaviors that facilitate the spreading of the HIV virus”
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"Congress should support the reauthorization of the Ryan White Care Act only after completion of an audit to ensure that federal dollars were no longer being given to organizations that celebrate & encourage the types of behaviors that facilitate the spreading of the HIV virus
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Resources should be directed toward those institutions which provide assistance to those seeking to change their sexual behavior."
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🔹“societal collapse was always brought about following an advent of the deterioration of marriage and family.” He also called being gay a choice and said keeping gays from marrying was not discrimination, but an enforcement of “God’s idea.”

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