Vice President Mike Pence isn’t taking criticism about his Christian faith sitting down.
After Joy Behar, host of ABC’s “The View,” compared Christianity to mental illness, Pence punched back with a jaw-dropping defense of his faith.
“My faith sustains me in all I do,” he said, succinctly, during an interview on C-SPAN.
Pence added, “To have ABC maintain a broadcast forum that compared Christianity to mental illness is just wrong. It is simply wrong for ABC to have a television program that expresses that kind of religious intolerance.”
Pence then turned to the “The View” in particular – arguing that they insulted the “vast majority of the American people who cherish faith.” He added that Behar’s remark “demonstrates how out of touch some in the mainstream media are with the faith and values of the American people that you could have a major network like ABC permit a forum for invective against religion like that.”
Behar’s anti-Christian comments came after the show displayed a video clip of former White House aide, Omarosa Manigault Newman, who claimed that Pence believes “Jesus tells him to say things.”
“It’s one thing to talk to Jesus. It’s another thing when Jesus talks to you,” Behar said. “That’s called mental illness, if I’m not correct, hearing voices.”
Behar later backtracked slightly on her comments, saying, “I think Mike Pence, say what you want about him and his religiosity, I don’t think he’s mentally ill. Even though he is saying he hears voices I don’t think he’s that crazy.”
AAN Staff
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