{"id":15117,"date":"2016-07-18T15:05:27","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T20:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/frenchrevolution\/?p=15117"},"modified":"2016-07-18T15:05:27","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T20:05:27","slug":"one-big-reason-christians-should-be-disappointed-in-trumps-vp-pick-mike-pence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/frenchrevolution\/2016\/07\/18\/one-big-reason-christians-should-be-disappointed-in-trumps-vp-pick-mike-pence\/","title":{"rendered":"One Big Reason Christians Should be Disappointed in Trump&#8217;s VP pick Mike Pence"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/546651670\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.666667% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/546651670?et=Y5qrUPKIQRVm_6OhEa_rdA&amp;viewMoreLink=on&amp;sig=OJL9GvPajgCaVH2QkhtYUb-9zmx4eNsuIRR2Yrv6v3Y=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Christians shouldn\u2019t be all that excited about when it comes to the selection of Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as Donald Trump\u2019s vice presidential candidate.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Though most used to consider Pence a hard-line conservative,\u00a0it all changed when he threw religious liberty under the bus in his state of Indiana. \u00a0In his piece for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/437933\/dont-ever-forget-mike-pence-threw-religious-liberty-under-bus\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>National Review<\/em><\/a>, David French writes, \u201cA candidate whose concern for religious liberty was already suspect just selected a symbol of cultural defeat as his running mate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He then points to <em>The Weekly Standard<\/em>\u2018s Mark Hemingway who reminds that Pence is responsible for throwing religious liberty under the bus in his state the second media pressure got to be too much:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Recall that last year, Indiana passed a state religious freedom restoration act (RFRA), which was the state version of existing federal legislation that passed Congress and was signed into President Bill Clinton with overwhelming bipartisan support . . . Though the Indiana law is not in conflict with other LGBT protections, it was decried as an act of bigotry. Journalists started fishing for villains, settling on the religious owners of an Indiana pizza parlor who said they would not (hypothetically) want to cater a gay wedding. Companies such as Apple and Ebay, which have no problem doing business in bastions of enlightened attitudes on gays as Saudi Arabia and Indonesia, threatened to boycott Indiana. (Curiously, they have not also threatened to boycott the existing 21 states with RFRAs.)<\/p>\n<p>Once it became clear that Pence was going to have to make a stand on religious freedom, he folded. Indiana\u2019s religious freedom law was gutted at Pence\u2019s direction within a week of it being passed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That\u2019s not what you could call taking a firm stand for religious liberty. If a little media pressure was enough to cause Pence\u2019s convictions to crumble, imagine how he might act under daily scrutiny as vice president.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll give David the last word:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pence was not only unable to withstand one single news cycle of pressure, he also essentially provided a proof-of-concept for much of the corporate bullying that\u2019s happened since. He energized boardroom activists, showing them that a few press releases and a day or two of Twitter trends could cause even alleged \u201ctrue conservatives\u201d to back down. Pence has done good things in his career, but this capitulation has an enduring and bitter cultural and political legacy. 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