During his CNN town hall on Wednesday, former Vice President Mike Pence unexpectedly expressed his opposition to various LGBTQ causes and events, for example, the recent Los Angeles Dodgers Pride Night debacle. But moderator Dana Bash pointed out the contradiction when she spoke out against medical treatment for trans children, even when those children had the full support of their parents.
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Discussing LGBTQ, Pence said he wanted to ban all forms of sex change for people under the age of 18. “Before he had a surgical procedure. I would say just wait.
Adopting the conservative movement’s “gender ideology” terminology, which seeks to describe transgender identity as an ideological position, Pence said, “We have to protect children from making decisions that permanently shape their bodies.” Let’s change.”
“So I just want to be clear on this,” Bash replied. “Because, you’re so rigid about parental rights, but in this particular case, what the parents say, along with the doctors, is what’s best for their kids, what their kids are most comfortable doing. feel, that’s a gender change, that parents shouldn’t be allowed to do that?”
“I take you, I take you,” Pence replied.
“No, that’s not a point, that’s a question,” Bash said as Pence stammered.
“We have a fundamentalist, sexist ideology in America that has taken hold in our schools, taken hold in our universities,” Pence said.
Wednesday’s town hall is one of a series CNN is hosting for presidential candidates from both parties.
Earlier at the event, Pence said he does not support criminal prosecution of the former president. Donald Trump to the scandal over classified documents found in Trump’s Florida home earlier this year, even though the Justice Department determined he committed a crime.
“I think it would be very divisive to the country,” Pence said of impeaching the former president. “It would send a terrible message to the rest of the world.” Asked if he would forgive Trump, Pence said he did not want to address “the imaginary”.
Pence said he wanted the country to focus on other serious threats, including the global expansion of China and its social media platform TikTok, Russia’s war with Ukraine, the influx of immigrants to the US southern border, intolerance of religion, and the Jan. Stems divisives are included. Capitol riot.
He also opposes abortion rights.
“I’m running because I think this country is in big trouble,” Pence told Iowa voters gathered for a town hall.
Pence said he is for blocking TikTok in the United States, calling it a spying and propaganda tool for the Chinese Communist Party.
Pence said, Tiktok is not friendly to America’s privacy and security.
But Pence actually broke away from the former president. Donald Trump on the Russia issue and the January 6 Capitol riot.
He stood firm that it was wrong for Trump to ask him to use his office to overturn the result of the presidential election on January 6, 2021, at the Capitol, and said that unlike Trump, he would make no apologies to anyone involved. Will not the violence of the day
“President Trump was wrong then. He’s wrong now,” Pence said on Jan. 6. “He’s asking me to choose between him and the Constitution. I chose the constitution. I have always believed that on that day I did my duty to protect and defend the Constitution.
As for Russia, Pence shook his head as he said Trump called Putin a “genius” after the Ukraine invasion. Pence said, “I know the difference between a genius and a war criminal.”
Pence said he did not want the United States to confront Russia directly, but he was in favor of supporting Ukraine.
“This is not our war, but freedom is our fight,” Pence said. He also warned that to those who think Putin will stay in Ukraine, “You’ve got another idea coming as we say in Indiana.”
