Message from @Goblin_Slayer_Floki

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2018-08-05 16:51:17 UTC  

I haven't even seen him say that

2018-08-05 16:51:37 UTC  

The accusation was made by *another* person (a Senator or Mayor or something from CA) that he 'supported conversion therapy'

2018-08-05 16:52:51 UTC  

And the 'proof' he provided was that one of the planks in Pence's platform when running for Gov was that funds should be used for 'alternative solutions' or some shit,

2018-08-05 16:53:02 UTC  

which suddenly got extrapolated into 'Pence wants to zap gay people'

2018-08-05 16:53:29 UTC  

when, as a devoutly religious person, most likely implied that he wanted it to go out to various foundations or some shit

2018-08-05 16:53:34 UTC  

pray the gay away, that sort of thing

2018-08-05 16:53:49 UTC  

Which, whilst I still find *that* silly, is somewhat *less* controversial than *electrocuting gay people*

2018-08-05 16:54:28 UTC  

But the key is optional

2018-08-05 16:54:30 UTC  

I think it even became 'parents will be allowed to force their kids to undergo conversion therapy, and the state will pay for it' or some nonsense

2018-08-05 16:54:41 UTC  

None of it even as gov was a mandatory thing

2018-08-05 16:54:51 UTC  

I'm saying he didn't even say 'optional gay zapping'

2018-08-05 16:54:57 UTC  

Oh no

2018-08-05 16:54:58 UTC  

He said 'spend [x] funds on other things'

2018-08-05 16:55:04 UTC  

I never said that either

2018-08-05 16:55:16 UTC  

I remember reading, ironically, the Politifact piece on it

2018-08-05 16:55:22 UTC  

Then clicked through to their links, read it for myself

2018-08-05 16:55:32 UTC  

Then scrolled down to PF's rating, who rated it as 'mostly true' anyway

2018-08-05 16:55:37 UTC  

And I was like 'wt***F***'

2018-08-05 16:55:50 UTC  

I said he was fine with optional conversion therapy. Which covers pray camps, electro, psychiatric, and so on

2018-08-05 16:56:08 UTC  

But he never advocated for electro

2018-08-05 16:56:15 UTC  

it just falls under the umbrella

2018-08-05 16:56:23 UTC  

I don't recall him ever even saying 'conversion' of any sort

2018-08-05 16:56:37 UTC  

Just that he didn't want the funds being spent on this one thing

2018-08-05 16:56:43 UTC  

don't force me to go look it up

2018-08-05 16:56:49 UTC  

I really can't be fucked at 0300

2018-08-05 16:56:54 UTC  

B

2018-08-05 16:56:59 UTC  

and it'll make me all grumpy and shit

2018-08-05 16:57:12 UTC  

y'know there's times i wish people like pence and trump actually started doing the things they were being accused of, just to see how the crazies would react. like pence could start pulling fags off the streets and making them ride the lightning on live tv and trump could start wearing a swastika on his arm, wearing a silly mustache and goose stepping up and down the white house lawn. i could just see sarah sanders press conference, "well, you've been saying they were literally sparky and hitler, why are you surprised?"

2018-08-05 16:57:35 UTC  

Already highly agitated at the moment thanks to fucking War Thunder being the biggest piece of shit game in the history of mankind

2018-08-05 16:57:46 UTC  

"While running for Congress, Indiana governor Mike Pence called for state funding for "institutions" working to enable people to "change their sexual behavior."

2018-08-05 16:57:48 UTC  

Finally went and deleted it, fuck that fucking game

2018-08-05 16:58:23 UTC  

Basically conversion therapy

2018-08-05 16:58:26 UTC  

ffs

2018-08-05 16:58:55 UTC  

and other sexual therapy as well

2018-08-05 16:59:28 UTC  

```Congress should support the reauthorization of the Ryan White Care Act only after completion of an audit to ensure that federal dollars were no longer being given to organizations that celebrate and encourage the types of behaviors that facilitate the spreading of the HIV virus. Resources should be directed toward those institutions which provide assistance to those seeking to change their sexual behavior.
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2018-08-05 16:59:34 UTC  

*not* 'basically' conversion therapy

2018-08-05 16:59:36 UTC  

fucking hell

2018-08-05 17:00:25 UTC  

Eh it includes it. Cause the highest sexual rate of HIV is homosexuality

2018-08-05 17:00:40 UTC  

highest spread all tlgether is drugs.

2018-08-05 17:01:04 UTC  

what, the fucking 'Indianapolis Electro-shock Institution'?

2018-08-05 17:04:07 UTC  

huh?