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#AM_Equality Tip Sheet: July 15, 2016<\/b>
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WITH PENCE PICK, TRUMP DOUBLES DOWN ON ANTI-LGBTQ AGENDA: <\/strong>Today, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has doubled down on his anti-LGBTQ agenda by choosing as his running mate Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, who has made virulent anti-LGBTQ activism a cornerstone of his political career. HRC President Chad Griffin responded to the news saying<\/strong>. “Mike Pence has never left any question about his animus toward LGBTQ people, from peddling a hateful and damaging ‘right to discriminate bill’ in Indiana last year, to his longstanding opposition to marriage equality — positions shared by Donald Trump.” Pence became a national disgrace in 2015, for his “license to discriminate<\/a>” bill that could have allowed businesses to deny service to LGBTQ people — and subsequently defending the bill over an outcry from the business community and a majority of Hoosier voters. In a now notorious interview with ABC last year,<\/a> Pence refused to answer eight separate times<\/a> when asked whether businesses should be able to discriminate against LGBTQ people. More from HRC<\/a>.<\/p>\n