Mike Pence spoke to 2,100 people jammed into an anti-LGBTQ megachurch in a COVID hotspot

Vice President of the United States Mike Pence
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Yesterday, despite Dallas, Texas being a COVID-19 hot spot, Vice President Mike Pence, Texas Governor Greg Abbott and U.S. Housing Secretary Ben Carson all spoke to a 2,100-person audience at a patriotic “Celebrate Freedom Sunday” event at the First Baptist Dallas megachurch. The church, which didn’t require face masks or social distancing, is led by a rabidly Islamophobic and anti-LGBTQ pastor Robert Jeffress.

Jeffress believes all non-Christians — including Catholics, Mormons, and Muslims — are going to hell. He believes “an anti-Christian holocaust” will occur if you force Christian bakers to make cakes for same-sex weddings. He also thinks same-sex wedding cakes are a sign of the Antichrist.

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Jeffress is a supporter of President Donald Trump and a member of Trump’s Evangelical Advisory Board and White House Faith Initiative which serves to make suggestions for preserving “religious freedom” in America. The effort has largely been about opposing LGBTQ-rights and access to reproductive healthcare.

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