VP-elect Pence gets a colorful, surprising welcome to new DC home

Vice President-elect Mike Pence is being welcomed to his temporary Washington D.C. home by rainbows and well wishes.

Of course for the consistently anti-LGBTQ former Indiana governor, rainbow flags may not be appreciated. Nor will the well wishes that he change his stance on LGBTQ rights.

Pence is temporarily renting a house in a Northwest D.C. neighborhood where he’ll live until he moves into the vice-president’s mansion in January. Several of Pence’s new neighbors have friends who are members of the LGBTQ community and have joined together in a quiet show of opposition to his policies.

“A respectful message showing, in my case, my disagreement with some of his thinking,” said one of Pence’s new neighbors, Ilse Heintzen, to WJLA-ABC 7 Nov. 30.

“I have no idea what [the Vice-President Elect] will think about, but I hope he will change his mind.”

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