Mr. Stephanopoulos asked a simple question:
“So yes or no, if a florist in Indiana refuses to serve a gay couple at their wedding, is that legal now in Indiana?”
The governor railed against the “shameless rhetoric” surrounding the law
and said: “The Religious Freedom Restoration Act has been on the books for more than 20 years.
In 2015, conservative activists pressured Indiana legislators to introduce the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, a bill
that would make it easier for Indiana business owners to discriminate against gays if it offended their religious beliefs.
He’s going to have to go huddle up and sleep on it and pray on it.”
After the 2015 attacks in Paris, Mr. Pence announced
that he was suspending the resettlement of Syrian refugees in Indiana and would cut off aid to groups helping them.
Mr. Pence was elected governor of Indiana in 2012 with less than 50 percent of the vote.
Mr. Pence wrote in 2001 that the link between smoking and cancer was not proved,
but during the 2012 campaign he hid his paleo-conservative views, talking instead of getting Indiana back to work.
That’s one of the first things I learned last December when I arrived in Indiana
to report on — let’s face it — the next president of the United States.
On July 15, Mr. Trump threw Mr. Pence the life preserver.
