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Media have a double standard on culture-war controversies

When Vice President Mike Pence was the governor of Indiana, he got along well with the mayor of South Bend, Pete Buttigieg, despite the fact that Buttigieg is a gay, liberal Democrat and Pence is a straight, socially conservative Republican.

Ironically, Pence is a straight man in both the sexual-orientation sense and the comedic sense, given his relationship with the president. But that's not important right now. Neither is the pre-2016 relationship between Pence and "Mayor

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