How Mike Pence's Marriage Became Fodder for the Culture Wars
Outrage over the vice president's approach to marriage reveals how deeply gender divides American culture.
of Karen Pence, the wife of Vice President Mike Pence, on Wednesday. The piece talks about the closeness of the Pences’ relationship, and cites something Pence told in 2002: Unless his wife is there, he never eats alone with another woman or attends an event where alcohol is being served. (It’s unclear whether, 15 years later, this remains Pence’s practice.) It’s not in the piece, but here’s the original quote from 2002: “‘If there's alcohol being served and people are being loose, I want to have
