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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe College Years! Pence turned in frat bros for buying a keg, then God told him he'd be President
Scott Roos went to college with Pence and confirmed that he rejected his gay friend. Roos said he experienced virulent anti-gay prejudice, including slurs and public shaming, when he and his partner acknowledged their relationship to their fraternity brothers. Formerly friendly, Pence stopped speaking to Roos.
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Roos also said of Pence: "He said that God told him he would be president." Accordingly, Pence stayed away from the stag-film parties and beer blasts in his frat house, but when confronted directly by an administrator, turned his brothers in for buying a keg of beer, according to a former fraternity brother, Dan Murphy, who now teaches at Hanover. The school came down hard on everyone, but when Pence later sought a job in the admissions office, he got it.
In his own life Pence followed a traditional path. He met his wife, Karen, at church and they were married in 1985. She left her teaching job when she became a mother. The couple has three children.
After Hanover, and his wedding, Pence lost a couple of congressional races, where he campaigned on his opposition to abortion rights and gay rights -- before settling into a career in local talk radio. His first station was a small one owned by an Indiana preacher named Gene Hood, who had brought 200 people to a local ballroom to protest a Miss Gay America contest. Hood was so worked up that he told the local paper: "If they try this another time, I'm telling you, there's going to be bloodshed. We mean business. There are some red-blooded men in Indianapolis, and we won't stand for this."
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/29/opinions/pence-went-to-college-found-god-dantonio-eisner/index.html
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The College Years! Pence turned in frat bros for buying a keg, then God told him he'd be President (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Aug 2018
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Pachamama
(16,887 posts)1. Pence is dirty too and knew about what was going on with Russia....
It isn't God speaking and telling you that you will be President Mr. Pence....
That's your ego.....
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)2. Ka-snap.....and.....mic drop.
If he was in a fraternity, and turned in his bros, over a keg,...that says it all right there. you don't join a frat...then rat.
Started radio on some goober preachers back-yard...NOOOOOooooo.
Now we know who he's having a discussion with when he's staring at the back of trums lump and squinting his eyes.