Veep Pence Loves Him Some Focus On The Family

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by: Colorado Pols

Vice President Mike Pence.

The Colorado Springs Gazette’s Steve Rabey reports, it’s a family reunion over at James Dobson’s old stomping ground along the Ronald Reagan Highway:

Vice President Mike Pence will speak at Focus on the Family’s 40th anniversary celebration June 23, but concerns about security and capacity have scotched plans to welcome the public.

“At the time we announced plans for the event, we were not anticipating the vice president was going to come,” said spokesman Paul Batura. “We regret the change but are honored to host a sitting vice president and man of faith who shares our ideals.”

Focus, which started with a 15-minute weekly radio show, shares a long history of cooperation with Pence, who had a radio talk show he described as “Rush Limbaugh on decaf” before he was elected to Congress in 2000.

“Rush Limbaugh on decaf” is a new one on us, but it describes Vice President Mike Pence amusingly well. And of course, it’s not all niceties and Ward Cleaver advice columns at Focus on the Family:

Pence has been a consistent supporter of Focus’s pro-family agenda, opposing abortion as well as greater rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.

Focus on the Family Action, the ministry’s lobbying arm, petitioned Democratic members of Congress in 2011 to support then-Sen. Pence’s Broadcaster Freedom Act, which a Fox News report said “would ban the FCC from forcing broadcasters to give free airtime to opposing sides on controversial issues.”

As most readers know, speculation is widespread that Pence is relatively far along in planning for ascension to the presidency in the increasingly likely event that President Donald Trump flames out. We wouldn’t place bets on that happening before June 23, but we fully expect it will be a subject of conversation between Pence and the leadership at Focus on the Family when he arrives.

And yes, it’s a big part of why Trump’s ouster from office is only so exciting a prospect to liberals.

16 thoughts on “Veep Pence Loves Him Some Focus On The Family”

RepealAndReplace says:

June 13, 2017 at 11:20 am

Of course he does….

But aren't they a tad bit too liberal for him? I heard they condone co-ed breakfast tables.

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Conserv. Head Banger says:

June 13, 2017 at 11:50 am

"Pence has been a consistent supporter of Focus's pro-family agenda…….."

That agenda really isn't "pro-family" when one peels back the onion, so to speak, unless one wants a return to the Ozzie and Harriet 1950s. Funny, and tragic at the same time, that radical, far right, groups like Focus, Family Research Council, American Family Association, have co-opted and bastardized the word "family."

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notaskinnycook says:

June 13, 2017 at 12:43 pm

C.H.B, Did you mean the Family Research Council and its spokesman Howdy Doody, er, I mean Tony Perkins?

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1. Conserv. Head Banger says:
  
  June 13, 2017 at 1:25 pm
  
  I was thinking Research and wrote out Resource. Changed it. Thanks.
  
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Davie says:

June 13, 2017 at 2:10 pm

So basically, once Trump and McConnell institute an actual dictatorship, McConnell and gang will ditch Trump and install Pence who then will declare the USA as a Theocracy.

Now it all is starting to make sense…

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1. notaskinnycook says:
  
  June 13, 2017 at 2:26 pm
  
  It took you this long to figure it out? I'm surprised, Davie. You're usually quicker than that.
  
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  1. Davie says:
    
    June 13, 2017 at 3:07 pm
    
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Moderatus says:

June 13, 2017 at 3:18 pm

Families bad. Alternative lifestyles good. (yawn)

We know you hate families, Pols. Don't you at least need a few straights to make babies for gays to adopt?

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1. Davie says:
  
  June 13, 2017 at 3:24 pm
  
  What were our Founding Fathers thinking when they wrote about freedom?
  
  Moldy, I'm glad you are a warrior for dictatorship and Christian Sharia Law!
  
  And just think Obama was THIS close to forcing you to marry your pet sheep!
  
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  1. Conserv. Head Banger says:
    
    June 13, 2017 at 4:07 pm
    
    Perhaps Moderatus should actually read what he is supposedly responding to, prior to running off at the mouth. Does he seriously want to return to the 1950s and before when women's roles were to be housewives and raise children?
    
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    1. unnamed says:
      
      June 13, 2017 at 4:16 pm
      
      I think it is. Complete with pre-civil rights segregation.
      
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  2. unnamed says:
    
    June 13, 2017 at 4:17 pm
    
    Moldy didn't want to marry his pet sheep of his own volition?
    
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    1. Davie says:
      
      June 13, 2017 at 4:35 pm
      
      Nah, Republican moralists prefer to keep their illicit affairs, well, illicit. It's more fun that way 😉
      
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2. unnamed says:
  
  June 13, 2017 at 4:19 pm
  
  Yes Moldy. We hate families. When we take over again, we are going to force you to marry a man.
  
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3. RepealAndReplace says:
  
  June 13, 2017 at 5:24 pm
  
  Alternative lifestyles?
  
  WTF Moldy, were you cryogenically frozen in 1975 and just recently thawed out?
  
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  1. unnamed says:
    
    June 13, 2017 at 5:51 pm
    
    If so, I wish they left him frozen. Send him to an alien world where the men bear the children.
    
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