The Great Smoky Mountain Journal
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Posted: Tuesday, January 01, 2019 02:33 PM
"The View's" Joy Behar Mocks Vice President Mike Pence's Christian Faith On Show
It all started when they played a clip from “Celebrity Big Brother,” in which former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman discussed the vice president.
As bad as you
think Trump is, you would be worried about Pence… everyone that is
wishing for impeachment might want to reconsider their life,” she said
in the clip. “I am Christian, I love Jesus, but he thinks Jesus tells
him to say things.”
The talk-show panelists pondered what Omarosa’s motive was, before Sunny
Hostin chimed in, “I think what’s interesting is that she said Jesus
tells Mike Pence things to sayHostin declared that Pence is a “hated
figure” in Indiana, claiming she knows firsthand because she attended
law school in the state.
“He’s not very popular at all,” she said. “I think when you have a Mike
Pence who now sort of puts this religious veneer on things and calls
people ‘values voters,’ I think we’re in a dangerous situation.”
Hostin said she is a “faithful” Catholic but doesn’t want her vice
president “speaking in tongues.”
Joy Behar then said: “It’s one thing to talk to Jesus. It’s another
thing when Jesus talks to you.”
Behar said hearing voices is a “mental illness” before Sherri Shepard
offered a limited defense of Pence.
“As a Christian, that’s just par for the course,” Shepard said “You talk
to Jesus, Jesus talks back. What concerns me is, how long is the
conversation with Jesus?”
Behar, an ABC News star, uncomfortably joked, “Can he talk to Mary
Magdalene without his wife in the room?”
Shepard then said that the key is “moderation” and anything that is “too
much” is concerning.
“Do we want our politics served to us with a religious veneer over
them?” Hostin asked. “This administration is not a values-driven
administration.” .”
