Is Mike Pence Jewish Or Catholic? Details About His Religion
Mike Pence, an American politician, broadcaster, and lawyer is an evangelical, born-again Christain. He has served as the 48th vice president of the United States from the date 2017 to 2021.
Previously, Mike had served as the 50th governor of Indiana and is a member of the Republican Party from the date 2013 to 2017. He was also a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the date of 2001 to 2013.
The politician was born on June 7, 1959, in Columbus, Indiana, U.S., and raised in Columbus, Indiana. U.S. Representative Greg Pence is his elder brother. He graduated from Hanover College and received a law degree from Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law before going for private practices.
Mike Pence Religion-Is Mike Pence Jewish Or Catholic?
Mike Pence left the Catholic Church while studying in college and became an evangelical, born-again Christain. He was raised in a Catholic family.
However, in a 1994 news piece, Mike called himself Catholic but in 1995, he along with his family joined an evangelical megachurch, the Grace Evangelical Curch. He started describing himself as “a Christain, a conservative and a Republican, in that order.”
Mike narrated himself as a “principled conservative” and advocate of the Tea Party movement, proverb he was “a Christain, a conservative, and a Republican, in that order.”
The 63-years-old politician strongly pursued the Republican nomination for the 2012 Indiana gubernatorial election when term-limited Mitch Daniels retired. He won against former Indiana House speaker John R. Gregg in the nearest gubernatorial election in 50 years.
In January 2013, after being the governor Mike start off the largest tax cut in Indiana’s history and forced more funding for private education initiatives. He signed bills that deliberate to restrict abortion, which includes one that prohibited abortions. The act only carries if the reason for the procedure was the fetus’s race, gender, or disability.
After Mike signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, he experienced ferocious resistance from moderate members of his party, the business community, and LGBT advocates. The responses against the RFRA led Mike to revise the bill to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender, identity, and other criteria.
In July 2016, Mike draw out from his gubernatorial reelection campaign to become the running mate of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who went on to victory in the 2016 presidential election.
On January 20, 2017, Mike was initiated as vice president of the United States and as a vice president, he chaired the National Space Council after it was re-established in June 2017. He was appointed chairman in February 2020 of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, which was established in reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.
Mike Pence Ethnicity
Mike Pence’s father was of German and Irish descent while his mother is of Irish ancestry. Thus, Mike is more of Irish ethnicity and less German too.
In the 2020 presidential election, Mike and Trump lost their bid for re-election against Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, although Trump’s campaign declined to concede, made false allegations of election fraud, and even filed more than 86 unsuccessful lawsuits in various different states.
In spite of Trump’s urging to reverse the election results, Mike in his capacity as President of the Senate certified the Biden-Harris ticket as the winner of the election. He was defamed by Trump’s supporters, particularly during the U.S. Capitol attack, for not trying to reverse the election results.
However, Mike’s refused to reverse the election results, his courage on January 6, 2021, and his personal honesty have been praised by both Democrats and Republicans for opposing then-President Trump’s attempt to destabilize the 2020 election.
Mike Pence Family
Mike Pence was one of six children of Ann Jane “Nancy” Cawley and Edward Joseph Pence Jr, who ran a group of gas stations.
The politician’s father served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War and earned the Bronze Star in 1953.
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Mike is married to Karen Pence and he met her in a law school at Indiana University. The couple married in 1985 and have three children; Michael, Charlotte and Audrey.
