{"id":506072,"date":"2019-01-16T18:38:04","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T18:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glaad.logalt.net\/tap\/karen-pence\/"},"modified":"2023-04-21T22:29:45","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T22:29:45","slug":"karen-pence","status":"publish","type":"gap","link":"https:\/\/glaad.org\/gap\/karen-pence\/","title":{"rendered":"Karen Pence"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2014 Returned<\/a> to the Immanuel Christian School to teach art classes to more than 400 students. However, the school is known to be anti-LGBTQ and even bans students or faculty from being openly LGBTQ. <\/p>\n

\u2014 WaPo report<\/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 or lesbian if they have a close relationship with a child of the same sex\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 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","protected":false},"author":355,"featured_media":506073,"template":"","categories":[138754],"tags":[],"region":[],"hashtag":[138632],"class_list":{"0":"post-506072","1":"gap","2":"type-gap","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"category-gaps","7":"hashtag-politics"},"aioseo_notices":[],"apple_news_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t