Mr. Stephanopoulos asked a simple question:<br />“So yes or no, if a florist in Indiana refuses to serve a gay couple at their wedding, is that legal now in Indiana?”<br />The governor railed against the “shameless rhetoric” surrounding the law<br />and said: “The Religious Freedom Restoration Act has been on the books for more than 20 years.<br />In 2015, conservative activists pressured Indiana legislators to introduce the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, a bill<br />that would make it easier for Indiana business owners to discriminate against gays if it offended their religious beliefs.<br />He’s going to have to go huddle up and sleep on it and pray on it.”<br />After the 2015 attacks in Paris, Mr. Pence announced<br />that he was suspending the resettlement of Syrian refugees in Indiana and would cut off aid to groups helping them.<br />Mr. Pence was elected governor of Indiana in 2012 with less than 50 percent of the vote.<br />Mr. Pence wrote in 2001 that the link between smoking and cancer was not proved,<br />but during the 2012 campaign he hid his paleo-conservative views, talking instead of getting Indiana back to work.<br />That’s one of the first things I learned last December when I arrived in Indiana<br />to report on — let’s face it — the next president of the United States.<br />On July 15, Mr. Trump threw Mr. Pence the life preserver.
