'Jesus' compelled Mike Pence to denigrate the LGBTQ community but doesn't stop him from repeating Trump's lies

The big loser of the Trump Shutdown and border wall fight is VP Mike Pence. He has been revealed to be a liar and hypocrite on a world stage.

Most likely (or maybe not because he is generally weak and fickle) during his address tonight, Trump will attempt to declare a national emergency so he can try to bypass Congress to make taypayers pay for his ridiculous and useless $5 border billion wall. A wall that he repeatedly said in the past  Mexico would pay for.  A big loser, other than truth and the American people, in this nonsense has to be Trump's vice president Mike Pence. Trump and his administration have made several false statements regarding the border wall. Pence has attempted to defend these lies and his stumbling hasn't been unnoticed.

Trump recently said past presidents has defended his border wall. This was revealed to be a lie. But it didn't keep Pence from attempting to defend it:

Pressed by NBC News’ Hallie Jackson in an interview Tuesday, Pence hesitated, before attempting to claim that the president meant that it had been “his impression” and that he meant “the importance of border security.”

“I know the president has said that that was his impression from previous administrations, previous presidents,” Pence said. “I know I’ve seen clips of previous presidents talking about the importance of border security, the importance of addressing the issue of illegal immigration.” None of the living former presidents has explicitly stated any support for the wall itself, contrary to Trump’s brag on Friday.

Another instance is Pence repeating the false claim that over 4,000 terrorists attempted to enter America through the Mexican border.

Hallie Jackson called him out over that:

“I was a little surprised to hear the vice president again raise that number about 4,000 known or suspected terrorists when that has been widely debunked,” Jackson said. “It’s one of the most headline-grabbing misleading claims that members of this administration has made, and Vice President Mike Pence knows that.”

According to the Raw Story article, National Security reporter Julia Ainsley backed Jackson up

“This administration has been fact-checked multiple time over the past few days on that figure. It’s interesting they’re still using it,” Ainsley replied, saying that of “about 3375 total people” the U.S. has placed on watch lists, “the vast, vast majority of those came through airports.” Ainsley added that after breaking down the numbers, the total number of people on that list trying to enter through the southern border amounted to six.

So Pence has been caught twice in one interview either covering up for Trump's lies or simply outright lying himself in defense of Trump. That would be bad enough, but remember how Pence is widely known for several statements and stances against the LGBTQ community, due to his religious beliefs of course. He is a darling of the religious right because of this.

According to the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) , before becoming Trump's vice president, Pence:

-- Supported anti-LGBTQ Federal Marriage Amendment with claims that being gay is a "chosen lifestyle," and a warning that "societal collapse was always brought about following an advent of the deterioration of marriage and family."

 -- First ran for Congress on a platform that called on lawmakers to "oppose any effort to put gay and lesbian relationships on an equal legal status with heterosexual marriage," to "oppose any effort to recognize homosexuals as a ' and insular minority' entitled to the protection of anti-discrimination laws similar to those extended to women and ethnic minorities," and to "support the reauthorization of the Ryan White Care Act only after completion of an audit to ensure that federal dollars were no longer being given to organizations that celebrate and encourage the types of behaviors that facilitate the spreading of the HIV virus." Pence called on these federal dollars to instead be "directed toward those institutions which provide assistance to those seeking to change their sexual behavior."

-- Claimed repealing the military's discriminatory "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy would turn the Armed Forces into a "backdrop for social experimentation." Sought to end "Don't Ask Don't Tell" and restore a full ban on openly gay soldiers.

-- Claimed federal hate crimes legislation was really designed "to advance a radical social agenda."

In the future when we want to demonstrate how right-wing evangelicals debased the principles they claimed to hold dear in support Trump, we need only to point a finger at Pence. After his performance this week, he can officially be named as the poster child.  Remember that in 2016, Pence said:

"I'm a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican, in that order,"

It's a pity that the so-called Christian beliefs which compelled to him to make a political career out of denigrating the LGBTQ community doesn't keep Pence from lying about Trump's manufactured border crisis.