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RandySF

(58,482 posts)
Wed Jul 20, 2016, 10:13 PM Jul 2016

Mike Pence is a big supporter of 'gay conversion' therapy.

Mike Pence's platform also appeared to urge Congress to re-evaluate federal funding for needy HIV patients' treatment over concerns about homosexuality.

"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 and encourage the types of behaviors that facilitate the spreading of the HIV virus," the website read. "Resources should be directed toward those institutions which provide assistance to those seeking to change their sexual behavior."

It's unclear to which institutions Pence was referring. The United Nations' Committee Against Torture expressed concern last year that 48 states allow so-called "ex-gay" or conversion therapy programs aimed at turning gay youth straight.


http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/mike-pence-2000-campaign-website

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Mike Pence is a big supporter of 'gay conversion' therapy. (Original Post) RandySF Jul 2016 OP
And of RIFRA (the gay-bashing religious exemptions thingy for business), and of silvershadow Jul 2016 #1
 

silvershadow

(10,336 posts)
1. And of RIFRA (the gay-bashing religious exemptions thingy for business), and of
Thu Jul 21, 2016, 03:26 AM
Jul 2016

restricting abortion rights, and of all sorts of super right-wing crap. Oh, and he kisses the Koch's asses as hard as he does Trump's. And he is sneaky as all fuck. He removed a duly-elected State Superintendent of Education and replaced all her duties with a hand-selected, non-elected board and somehow got away with it. He is one scary individual. From what I can see he might well be mentally ill, in all honesty.

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