Fact Checker | Mike Pence, Pete Buttigieg and the debate over ‘conversion therapy’
By Glenn Kessler Glenn Kessler The Fact Checker Email Bio Follow April 18 at 3:00 AM “If me being gay was a choice, it was a choice that was made far, far above my pay grade. And that’s the thing I wish the Mike Pences of the world would understand. That if you got a problem with who I am, your problem is not with me — your quarrel, sir, is with my creator.”
Still, in response to the outcry over the law, Indiana lawmakers amended it to clarify that it did not authorize discrimination against gays. Then Pence came under attack from conservatives for caving. “Let me say emphatically this debate is not about discrimination,” Pence, then a congressman, said in a 2006 floor speech supporting the marriage amendment. “I believe that if someone chooses another lifestyle than I have chosen, that that is their right in a free society.”
Congress should oppose any effort to recognize homosexual’s as a"discreet and insular minority" entitled to the protection of anti-discrimination laws similar to those extended to women and ethnic minorities. Third, the language speaks of changing “sexual behavior,” not sexuality. Another line on the old website refers to “the types of behaviors that facilitate the spreading of the HIV virus.”
The final 2000 reauthorization bill included language about the responsibilities of people with HIV: “It is the duty of infected individuals to disclose their infected status to their sexual partners and their partners in the sharing of hypodermic needles; that provides advice to infected individuals on the manner in which such disclosures can be made; and that emphasizes that it is the continuing duty of the individuals to avoid any behaviors that will expose others to HIV.
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