Some advice for the GOP from the hard left ... Pence is too Christian, too anti-gay, and too anti-crony capitalist ... even for Republicans!
Posted on 07/15/2016 12:08:47 AM PDT by Zakeet
The Indiana governor and culture warrior would balance the ticket with a twice-divorced, proud philanderer at the top -- except he legalized discrimination against LGBT people with a law so extreme other GOP states rejected it.
In choosing Mike Pence as his running mate, Donald Trump has shored up the GOP's religious base. But based on the Indiana governor's disastrous run-in with pro-business Republicans and moderates last year over gay rights, Trump may have just lost the election.
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Unlike Newt Gingrich and Chris Christie, Pence has been a right-wing culture warrior for his entire career. As Samantha Allen detailed at The Daily Beast recently, Pence has been so outspoken in his anti-abortion politics that he even spawned a hashtagged backlash among women, #periodsforpence. Pence has walked the talk for years, pushing through one of the nation’s most restrictive anti-abortion laws and voting to defund Planned Parenthood years before it was cool to do so.
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But the LGBT issue has been a different story.
When Pence turned against the LGBT community last year, pushing through a "Religious Freedom Restoration Act," or RFRA, that allowed businesses to turn away gay customers, enabled corporations to deny insurance coverage to LGBT people (and women), and, more broadly, was accurately interpreted as a gift to the anti-gay fringe of the Christian Right (such as the lobbyists who stood behind Pence when he signed the law), the business community rebelled.
The reason wasn't altruism, but capitalism. In the furor over Indiana's RFRA, the state lost 12 large conventions, an estimated $60 million in business, and an untold number of businesses choosing to locate elsewhere, with the Hoosier State rebranded as the Hater State.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
Some advice for the GOP from the hard left ... Pence is too Christian, too anti-gay, and too anti-crony capitalist ... even for Republicans!
That feels like a million years ago. The times they are a changing.
And hurting the feelings of a bunch of fruits is going to fall to the bottom in terms of issues after Trump is elected.
You would think they could wait for the official announcement before they begin the smears. Daily Beast.
TRUMP needs someone like Pence but also like GINGRICH and maybe someone unknown ... A strong staff with some consistant principles
I’m liking him more and more!
“Jay Michaelson is a writer and LGBT activist in the USA who writes on spirituality, Judaism, sexuality, and law. Michaelson is legal affairs and religion columnist at The Daily Beast and a contributing editor to The Forward, newspaper. Wikipedia”
“Jay Michaelson works in two fields. First, Jay is the legal affairs columnist for The Daily Beast, a contributing editor to the Jewish Daily Forward, and a frequent media commentator on the intersections of law, religion, and sexuality. Second, Jay is a well-regarded teacher of meditation in Buddhist and Jewish traditions. He is the author of six books, and holds a Ph.D. in religion, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and nondenominational rabbinic ordination.”
He’s a “nondenominational” Jewish Buddhist homofascist.
Ask him if God exists.
A bit of yammering from the chattering classes.
There’s really just no way to know how the election will go until it happens, no matter whom Trump chooses.
But Indiana ATTRACTED a lot more businesses, which this report fails to mention. Pence has been a great governor since Mitch.
“Anti-gay”? Is that supposed to be a joke?
The way Pence caved to the radical homosexuals on religious freedon in Indiana last year, he actually seems to be one of their good buddies. :P
God forbid he should represent traditional morals.
The scribbler of this fake journalism is, to put it lightly, wrong.
Wow, now that didn’t take long, did it?
*chuckle*
If all they had was that he favored blue pajama bottoms, they’d be leading off with that.
The hatred the left has for anyone not “on board” the “Cultural Marxist Train” is sickening and proves (yet again) the basic degeneracy of the human condition (translation: man is by his nature evil, and unless tempered by morality and self-control, his evil will have no bounds) ...
Definitely. He's got the right panties in a twist. Must be doing something right!
But I guess there's still time if he wants to try to attract some crossover votes.
Mike Pence lost the battle.
Most Americans instinctively understand the Left wants to destroy American values - not to expand them.
Ironically enough, the most intolerant people in our country are the people who accuse Pence of intolerance.
In his defense, Pence tried to work out a compromise.
It wasn’t good enough for the Left.
For them, its our way or the highway. Good to know he has all the right enemies.
If you’re a Christian, you’re a bigot. If you’re a Muslim jihadi, you’re just a misunderstood freedom fighter.
Got it.
A pair of salt shakers...where’s the pepper?
They just can’t wait to trash whoever DJT would select. May they get what they deserve, in this life and the next.
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