{"id":101387,"date":"2016-07-15T09:53:24","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T17:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=101387"},"modified":"2019-06-21T12:23:34","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T20:23:34","slug":"kevin-macdonald-well-at-least-the-israel-lobby-is-happy-trump-picks-pro-israel-stalwart-mike-pence-as-running-mate-pence-caved-on-lgbt-in-response-to-jewish-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=101387","title":{"rendered":"Mike Pence Loves Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.jta.org\/2016\/07\/15\/news-opinion\/politics\/trump-picks-pro-israel-stalwart-mike-pence-as-running-mate#.V4ka5uS5PNo.twitter\">JTA<\/a>: Speaking at a Republican Jewish Coalition event last year, Pence faced pointed questioning from Matthew Brooks, the RJC\u2019s executive director, about a law the Indiana governor had signed recently allowing businesses to discriminate against LGBT people, which Brooks suggested could undermine the GOP\u2019s efforts at attracting women and minorities.<\/p>\n<p>Answering Brooks\u2019 question at the RJC confab, Pence was apologetic. The law went too far he acknowledged, and it was revised.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUltimately we adopted a few reforms and made it clear this was a shield, not a sword,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Pence received warm applause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JTA: Speaking at a Republican Jewish Coalition event last year, Pence faced pointed questioning from Matthew Brooks, the RJC\u2019s executive director, about a law the Indiana governor had signed recently allowing businesses to discriminate against LGBT people, which Brooks suggested &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=101387\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21791,29,29642],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-jews","category-rjc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"JTA: Speaking at a Republican Jewish Coalition event last year, Pence faced pointed questioning from Matthew Brooks, the RJC\u2019s executive director, about a law the Indiana governor had signed recently allowing businesses to discriminate against LGBT people, which Brooks suggested could undermine the GOP\u2019s efforts at attracting women and minorities. 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