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GLAAD Adds Karen Pence to Its Catalog of Trump Administration Anti-LGBTQ Activists, Calls on Her to Leave Teaching Post<\/b><\/p>\n

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Reports reveal wife of Vice President is employed by private school that openly discriminates against LGBTQ students and staff<\/em><\/p>\n

Immanuel Christian School\u2019s stated beliefs<\/a>: \u201cHomosexual acts and lifestyles are clearly perversion and reprehensible in the sight of God.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

NEW YORK<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 GLAAD, the world\u2019s largest LGBTQ media advocacy organization, today condemned Second Lady Karen Pence for returning to her teaching post at Immanuel Christian School, an anti-LGBTQ\u00a0institution\u00a0that actively discriminates against LGBTQ students and faculty. According to\u00a0news reports<\/a>, the Second Lady of the United States will teach art to about 400 students at a school that\u00a0claims<\/a>\u00a0\u201cHomosexual acts and lifestyles are clearly perversion and reprehensible in the sight of God.\u201d<\/p>\n

GLAAD added Pence to its Trump Accountability Project, which documents the anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and actions of over 75 officials in and associated with the Trump Administration. Karen Pence\u2019s new profile on GLAAD\u2019s Trump Accountability Project is here:\u00a0www.glaad.org\/tap\/karen-pence<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s disturbing Second Lady Karen Pence would\u00a0put her stamp of approval on an institution that\u00a0actively targets LGBTQ students\u00a0at one of the places where they should feel the safest,\u201d\u00a0said Sarah Kate Ellis, President and CEO at GLAAD<\/strong>. \u201cWhen\u00a0young people are coming to terms with their sexual orientation and gender identity, they deserve to have\u00a0the\u00a0support\u00a0of the adults in their lives.\u00a0Often the arts are a safe haven for these students, and let\u2019s be honest \u2013 we wouldn\u2019t have some of the world\u2019s most profound and impactful art if\u00a0it weren\u2019t for\u00a0LGBTQ people.\u00a0As an art teacher, I suspect she is aware of that. She should leave this teaching post and join the faculty of an institution that values and supports the acceptance of all students.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ellis also called on Immanuel Christian School to abandon its policy that discriminates against LGBTQ students.<\/p>\n

\u201cImmanuel Christian School should immediately reexamine its policy of open discrimination against LGBTQ students and understand just how dangerous it is to further marginalize young people who are struggling to come to terms with their identity or have made the courageous choice to come out as LGBTQ in a difficult environment,\u201d\u00a0said Ellis.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The\u00a0Pence report\u00a0comes a week after the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN) released a\u00a0disturbing report<\/a>\u00a0that found LGBTQ students \u2013 specifically transgender and gender nonconforming students \u2013 experienced more hostile climates at their schools over the last\u00a0two years.<\/p>\n

Second Lady Pence joins the list of administration officials with disturbing anti-LGBTQ activist records. According to GLAAD\u2019s\u00a0Trump Accountability Project (TAP)<\/a>, President Trump and his administration have been the most anti-LGBTQ in recent history, authorizing attacks on the LGBTQ community more than 90 times. For more about these, go to\u00a0www.glaad.org\/trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n

BACKGROUND INFORMATION: Karen Pence\u2019s Anti-LGBTQ Past<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

WaPo<\/em>\u00a0report<\/a>: \u201cIn 1991, Karen Pence, then an elementary-school teacher, penned a letter to the editor in the Indianapolis Star, complaining that the paper\u2019s \u201cChildren\u2019s Express\u201d section had featured an article that \u201cencourages children to think they\u2019re gay<\/a> or lesbian<\/a> if they have a close relationship with a child of the same sex<\/a>\u201d or admire a teacher of the same gender. \u2018I only pray that most parents were able to intercept your article before their children were encouraged to call<\/a> the Gay\/Lesbian Youth Hotline, which encourages them to \u2018accept their homosexuality\u2019 instead of reassuring them that they are not,\u2019 she wrote.<\/p>\n

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