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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Wed Aug 29, 2018, 05:01 PM Aug 2018

The 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 OP
Pence is dirty too and knew about what was going on with Russia.... Pachamama Aug 2018 #1
Ka-snap.....and.....mic drop. Crutchez_CuiBono Aug 2018 #2

Pachamama

(16,887 posts)
1. Pence is dirty too and knew about what was going on with Russia....
Wed Aug 29, 2018, 05:05 PM
Aug 2018

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.
Wed Aug 29, 2018, 05:14 PM
Aug 2018

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.
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