Religious and conservative: what you need to know about Mike Pence

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US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump announced that Indiana Governor Mike Pence will become US Vice President if he wins the elections in November.

Pensu 57 years, with his wife Karen has three children.

He was born into a Catholic Irish family, converted to Protestantism (evangelical Christianity). Adheres to conservative views and supports the movement of tea.

Pence is an old-school Republican, closer to the party's ideology than Trump himself. He often talks about his religiosity, and even more often explains the laws he signed with it. He has already managed to get into trouble by signing two laws: banning abortion, as well as the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which caused a lot of protests due to infringements on LGBT rights.

From all this it is easy to understand that Pence is a typical Republican: conservative, religious, does not support the LGBT community, opposes abortion, writes The slot.

To better understand what kind of vice president America offers Trump, we give you a selection of quotes from Penza, compiled by the publication Indystar.

“I am a Christian, a conservative, a Republican, in that order.”

“By adopting this law (banning abortions), we are taking an important step in protecting the unborn, while providing an exception in case of a threat to the life of the mother. I sign this law with a prayer so that God will continue to bless children, mothers and families. ”

Despite the fact that in 2015, he signed the law, which, in fact, allowed Indiana enterprises to deny services to LGBT people, Hens stood his ground.

Protecting the law on the TV channel ABC, he went at least five times from answering the question of whether the document allows gays and lesbians to deny service.

Later, however, in an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal, he wrote that he "abhors discrimination."

“If I saw a restaurant whose owner refused service to a gay couple, I would not eat there again,” Governor Pence said.

“I have been saying for years: I am a conservative.” But I'm not upset about it. Let's be cheerful partisans and happy warriors."

“There are significant gaps in our ability to know exactly what we need to know about all the people coming into this country,” Pence explained his denial of housing for Syrian refugees in Indiana.

“I would say that my Christian faith and my relationship with my wife Karen have the greatest influence on me at the moment.”

“Republicans will stand firm on the principle that the American people do not want to see the American military used to promote liberal political causes,” referring to the ban on homosexuals from serving in the US military.

“Using the freedoms of marriage and religion, we have forgotten the lessons of history. The hardest moments for America came when economic arguments were put above moral principles. ”

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