Mike Pence and the 'Billy Graham Rule'
Their method of protecting their marriage may be misguided, but it shows the Pences have an admirable awareness of their own human weaknesses.
by Andrew Exum
Mar 30, 2017
4 minutes
What an age to be alive! The internet has broken out into a feverish and wildly entertaining debate over, of all things, the fallen nature of man. What prompted all of this was a profile of the vice president’s wife, Karen Pence, in The Washington Post, that included this detail about the vice president:
In 2002, Mike Pence told the Hill that he never eats alone with a woman other than his wife and that he won’t attend events featuring alcohol without her by his side, either.
How sexist! screamed half of the internet. This is akin to Salafism, argued others. Conservative Christians were quickly shouted down.
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