To the surprise of absolutely no one, former Vice President Mike Pence is teaming up with not one but two antigay hate groups in his first big move since leaving the White House.
Pence just announced that he will be serving as a “distinguished visiting fellow” at the Heritage Foundation, an ultra-conservative think tank that opposes same-sex marriage, supports “religious freedom” laws, and basically hates all things LGBTQ.
In a tweet, the ex-VP said the Heritage Foundation “is a flagship of the conservative movement and I am profoundly honored to join them as a distinguished visiting fellow to advance conservative policies that will benefit every American.”
The @Heritage Foundation is a flagship of the conservative movement and I am profoundly honored to join them as a distinguished visiting fellow to advance conservative policies that will benefit every American. ?? https://t.co/htnz7RE6nm
— Mike Pence (@Mike_Pence) February 4, 2021
According to a press release, Pence will “advise Heritage experts on public policy issues” and write a monthly column for the hate group’s newsletter, as well as gives speeches on occasion.
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In addition to his new gig with Heritage Foundation, Pence also just announced that he’s launching a podcast hosted by the Young America’s Foundation, an antigay conservative youth organization.The podcast will target a younger, more impressionable audience in hopes of propagating a new generation of homophobes.
In a tantalizing teaser for the show, a spokesperson for Pence says: “The vice president will certainly be focused on the conservative accomplishments of the last four years and projecting those accomplishments and taking those lessons learned and protecting them forward.”
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
Kangol2
That didn’t take long for him to throw away even the tiniest shred of decency he demonstrated in following the US Constitution and defying his fascist, wannabe-dictator coup-pushing boss! Oh well, can’t say I’m surprised. Karma and fate may condemn him to electoral political purgatory for what he participated in and failed to push back against as a Congressman, Governor of Indiana, and second in charge to that narcissistic psychopathic treasonous monster Don the Q-anon.
Den
A symbolic adherence to a constitutionally mandated ritual, sadly does not indicate that Pence developed any decency. He is the same creep and hack politician he always was.
At least he has no political power in his current position, and nobody in the executive branch with any interest in what the Heritage Foundation has to say.
barryaksarben
DEN is right. He could not have done anything to keep Trump in office anyway and that does in no way change all the horrible things he has done and will do. He is a pig and to look to him for basic decency is a fools goal
KH
Just waiting for the details of his hidden same sex affairs in 3….2….1…
G-Man
Exactly!
SaintRock
Does that mean Pence is not afraid of hurting the feelings of Lady G? I am sure they both are having a down low, dirty n nasty tumble in the hey hey hey!!!!!!
baggins435
“…conservative policies that will benefit every American.” *
*Does not apply to women, LGBT, people of color, immigrants, non-Christians…. Oh hell, let’s just admit we only care about white male “Christians”.
There Pence, I fixed it for you.
My2CentsWorth
I agree with most of your statement. The big lie
zealot
In Pence’s world an “American” is automatically defined by the exclusion of anyone who isn’t white, rich, Christian-touting/appearing, and male. Women in his world don’t really count b/c of the whole Bible/subservience thing. So in his mind yes, he would believe the bile spewed by the Heritage Foundation is just what Americans want and need, mostly because it benefits his ilk.
I_am_that_guy
“Distinguished Visiting Fellow.”
So he’s found somewhere else to couch-surf for a while with Mother?
Pharmguy55
Mike Pence would sell his soul to the highest bidder to try to stay relevant. Unfortunately for him, he and his followers never were relevant. Just ask pretty much anyone in Indiana. As a governor he was an abysmal failure. As a Vice President he was Trump’s lapdog.
nathan
Like his criminal master now residing in Florida, Pence seems to have a penchant for fancy titles – ‘distinguished visiting fellow’. That kind of title is usually reserved for distinguished academics with professorial chairs at distinguished universities.
He certainly distinguished himself while in office – as part of an administration that promoted racism, homo/transphobia, took part in caging innocent babies, enabled Trump family nepotism and corruption and helped spread the lie that the elected was ‘stolen’. Now he pretends that he was being virtuous Jan 6 – he was simply doing his job, nothing more.
8millionandcounting
Professional Boot Licker.
fur_hunter
He is such a Piece of S HIT A SS HOLE!!!
Rock Star
The epitome of every enemy of freedom Lt Colonel I have ever seen from the 60’s throughout the 90’s stereothpical portrayals of filmdom’s best technicolor goose-stepping precision that would make any broadway chorus girl envious and and shiny thirsty Tiger Tanks galore with good-looking blonde villains at their stomping best. In short he would look right at home in a Nazi uniform. Just sayin’
cuteguy
He has lost the KKK vote aka the conservative religious right so basically he has no political power left. The GQP are supporting Majorie Taylor Biggot and all her kooky propaganda
Joshooeerr
I wouldn’t worry too much. Pence has rendered himself the most irrelevant man on earth. He hitched his wagon the the abominable Trump for four long years, with not a single word of protest at all the lies and outrages. Then he symbolically betrayed Trump and all his befuddled followers. He’ll be Mikey-No-Friends for a long, long time to come. And any organisation that reaches out to him for representation only demonstrates how desperate and irrelevant they must be too.
cbus
His new affiliates are not hate groups. Your last two articles have laid down the hate. You hate the person, he hates the perversion.
cuteguy
@cbus
You are obviously a GQP troll. Go back to Faux News. Or if you’re too bored living in your mom’s basement or in your trailer park, go get a job so you don’t have so much free time trolling sites that are of no interest to you. Be gone you white supremacist
Cam
@cbus
Sweetie, you’ve been trying the same Republican troll tactic on a few threads. You come on, you claim something isn’t true without proof.
Sorry, people on this site are way way way too smart for that to work. Try a different screename and a different tactic.
GayEGO
What are you doing on this website? Either you are LGBTQI or you are a homophobic, I believe it is the latter. I was with my partner for 57 years, married 15 years, I am a Navy Vet and a retired software engineer. Pence is a homophobic as he is anti-gay.
BThom
Graham, It would be really cool if you could cite an instance of the Heritage foundation hating gays. It’s one thing to be opposed to same-sex marriage, and another to actually hate someone or some group.
wwb
C U NEXT TUESDAY MIKEY!
Invader7
Another gop LOSER troll !!! Stay under the bridge Mikey. Do waht Mother tells you to do, you idiotic stupid moron.