In a guffaw-inducing declaration, a deputy White House Press Secretary has said noted homophobe Mike Pence couldn’t possibly hate gay people since he just had lunch with the Irish Prime Minister. Seriously.
Pence dined with out-gay PM Leo Varadkar and his husband Dr. Matthew Barrett on Tuesday. Judd Deere, the out-gay deputy Press Secretary, tweeted out news of the meeting. “For all of you who still think our @VP is anti-gay, I point you to his and the @SecondLady’s schedule tomorrow where they will join Taoiseach @LeoVaradkar and his partner Dr. Matthew Barrett for lunch in Ireland,” Deere tweeted.
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Deere, who has defended the Trump Administration’s virulent anti-LGBTQ record in the past, apparently knows nothing of Pence’s long history of attacks on queer people. That, or he somehow thinks a single lunch meeting somehow negates Pence’s record.
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As governor of Indiana, Pence advocated conversion therapy, the widely denounced practice of forcibly trying to change sexual orientation or gender identity through religious instruction. Doctors and psychiatrists have declared the practice a form of torture, and a number of states have banned it in minors. Furthermore, Pence opposed legal protections of queer people, spoken out against marriage equality, cut funding to HIV/AIDS charities and research studies and even criticized the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” which allowed LGBTQ people to serve in the military.
BudNOLA
*homophobe not homophone
TheGregoryProject
hahaha … that’s funny.
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September 4, 2019 at 4:09pm
Cato
No matter how gay he sounds, Mike Pence is a homophobe, not a homophone.
Fix your headline for crying out loud!
Rex Huskey
the headline is not a mistake
PoetDaddy
It sounds like having lunch with the Prime Minister of Ireland would be considered part of Mike Pence’s JOB DESCRIPTION as Vice President. When was the last time Pence had lunch with an out LGBTQ+ person that was not required of him professionally? Like with a gay friend or some such unheard Republican thing?
Kangol2
When he eats alone, if mother, er, Second Lady allows him to?
Andy
Sounds like…
Goforit
First, I was actually hoping that Asst. Press Sec Deere ( gay Uncle Tom ) had released a statement saying “homophone”. But alas it was just Queerty’s stellar editing. Second, Pence did not dine with the PM and his “partner”. It is the PM and his HUSBAND. Third, I have had lunch with many republicans, both friends and family. Yet I still consider myself a “republicanphobe”.(and proud of it)
Mack
But he stayed 180 miles away so he wouldn’t catch it. He gave the excuse he was staying at Trump’s property, but in reality he put those miles in between so he would catch the gayness. 🙂
curiobi
Where was mother in all this? Another closet case and his beard-wife spewing hate and hypocrisy.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Homophone is to homosexuals as Batphone is to Batman???
I was not aware that being a Homosexual now entails me to refer to my cellphone as such…
DuMaurier
Gotta admit, I was really hoping the White House made that ‘homophone’ blooper.
(Also, Queerty, you’ve had more than enough time and plenty of notice to fix it)
Samuel1966
I wonder if he needed his wife to be there for a gay luncheon LOL, just because he had lunch with 2 gay guys makes him unhomophobe,RIDICULOUS!!!!!