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<div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 30px 0px; color: rgb(25, 31, 36); font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: -0.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">JEREMY SCAHILL: Well, part of what I write—well, so, part of what I was doing with this article was playing with the way that so many people have used these terms to describe people that are perverting the religion of Islam in the name of ISIS or al-Qaeda, etc., and I sort of did it as a social experiment, and I got inundated with people demanding that I retract these labels. And some of those people, in their emails to me, actually use these same terms to describe the religion of Islam.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 30px 0px; color: rgb(25, 31, 36); font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: -0.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">So, but what I’m getting at is that Mike Pence is not just against gay people being together in a relationship; he wants to legislate a ban on those issues. He wants to repeal Roe v. Wade. As he said, he wants to put it in the ash heap of history. Their primary agenda, on a social level, is basically taking us back to medieval times when it comes to the rights of women, the rights of immigrants, the rights of the poor, the humanhood of all of these sort of vulnerable, targeted groups.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 30px 0px; color: rgb(25, 31, 36); font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: -0.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">And, you know, Mike Pence, his personal history is interesting. He was raised in an Irish Catholic, Kennedy Democrat household, and then he was converted, on the spot, at a Christian music festival in Kentucky while he was in college. And he sort of now describes himself as an evangelical Catholic. But his sort of intellectual role models within this, what I call a Christian supremacist world, are people like the famed radical right-wing Catholic priest Richard Neuhaus, who was an evangelical and converted to being a Catholic, Gary Bauer and James Dobson, you know, ferocious right-wing, anti-woman activists. These are the people that sort of populate the world that Mike Pence comes out of. And Pence has always been viewed as one of the prized warriors of the radical religious right.<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 30px 0px; color: rgb(25, 31, 36); font-family: Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: -0.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In Indiana, his state was one of the most—had one of the most restrictive, draconian rules on abortion, in the criminalizing of abortion. He actually tried to ram through a law that would have required fetal tissue or fetuses that were aborted to receive a proper burial. And, you know, a judge intervened, a federal judge intervened, the day before this was to take hold, and said this is quite likely unconstitutional. He denied—he held up HIV medication and treatment funding, trying to put on it a requirement that it come with a therapy that would preach against the evils of gay sex. He has said that he believes that the only safe sex is no sex, and he chided former Secretary of State Colin Powell for suggesting that people should use condoms when having sex....</div><a href="https://democracynow.org/2016/11/21/jeremy_scahill_mike_pence_has_militant">
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