Stop picking on Christian schools, says Mike Pence, after wife resumes teaching at one

Vice-President Mike Pence says the criticism of Christian education in America should stop.

Pence is responding to media reports of his wife returning to teach at a school that says it can refuse to employ gay and lesbian teachers or enrol children with gay or lesbian parents.

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Karen Pence is teaching at Immanuel Christian School in northern Virginia.

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The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest gay rights advocacy group, criticized the move as an example of the Pences showing their public service “only extends to some.”

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But Pence says on the Catholic news network EWTN in an interview that aired Thursday that America has a rich tradition of religious education and that “to see major news organizations attacking Christian education is deeply offensive to us.”