Lady Gaga questioned Vice President Mike Pence’s Christian values in response to his wife, Karen Pence, accepting a job teaching art at a Christian school.
The school, consistent with its interpretation of Christian teaching, views homosexuality as sinful.
“To Mike Pence, who thinks it’s acceptable his wife works at a school that bans LGBTQ, you’re wrong … You are the worst representation of what it means to be a Christian,” the performer said Saturday during a performance in Las Vegas.
She continued, “I am a Christian woman, and what I do know about Christianity is that we bear no prejudice and everybody is welcome. So you can take all that disgrace, Mr. Pence, and look yourself in the mirror and you’ll find it right there.”
We need more people like Gaga to not be afraid and to speak up. What she says here, thank you for using your voice @ladygaga #ENIGMA ❤️??????? pic.twitter.com/kPmJim1VUp
— Kara (@gagaamour) January 20, 2019
The pop star, who grew up Catholic, has spoken about her faith in the past, telling Larry King in 2010 that she was “very religious. I was raised Catholic. I believe in Jesus. I believe in God.”
“I pray very much but at the same time there is no one religion that doesn’t hate or speak against or is prejudiced against another racial group or religious group or sexual group, and for that I think religion is also bogus. So I suppose you could say I’m quite a religious woman but very confused about religion,” she said.
Second lady Karen Pence has been criticized by liberals for her decision to teach art at Immanuel Christian School in Springfield, Va. She previously taught at the school when her husband served in Congress.
The private school requires potential employees and parents to sign statements of faith that include the belief that marriage can only be between a man and a woman. The school excludes students and staff who participate in or condone homosexual activity and asks staff to refrain from living with a partner they are not married to, engaging in sexual activity outside marriage, and looking at pornography.
The vice president called the criticism of his wife “deeply offensive.”
[Opinion: Karen Pence just wants to teach art, but people are mad the school has standard Christian beliefs]
