Pence Surreptitiously Adds Leader of Hate Group to His Organization’s Advisory Board

Is there anything attractive about Pence as a presidential candidate?  He has the charisma of a five-pound bag of fertilizer, and his views on things like gay rights are from the early/mid-20th Century, when homosexuality was punished by imprisonment or chemical castration.

From this:

Former Vice President Mike Pence launched his new organization, Advancing American Freedom, on Wednesday. Since then, one name has quietly been added to the advisory board that was announced at launch. Pence’s advisory board now includes Mike Farris, the president and CEO of the group Alliance Defending Freedom.

In 2016, Alliance Defending Freedom was declared a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). “The SPLC lists ADF as a hate group because it has supported the idea that being LGBTQ+ should be a crime in the U.S. and abroad and believes that is OK to put LGBTQ+ people in prison for engaging in consensual sex,” SPLC explained. “It has also supported laws that required the forced sterilization of transgender Europeans.”

“ADF has spread lies about the LGBTQ+ community. It has, for example, linked being LGBTQ+ to pedophilia and claimed that a “homosexual agenda” will destroy society. ADF tries to couch its rhetoric in benign-sounding phrases, but the truth is that it works to dehumanize LGBTQ+ people and restrict their rights for being who they are,” SPLC explained. 

Other Republicans who are serving with Farris on Pence’s board include Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, Ambassador Callista Gingrich, former Sen. Rick Santorum, Kellyanne Conway, Larry Kudlow, and actor Kirk Cameron.

I get that we’re going through a period of intense hatred and ignorance, but does America really have an appetite for this?

Some people give Pence credit for not committing treason and attempting to overturn the election, at Trump’s behest.  But is not committing treason a justification for supporting him? Doubt it.