I can guess their answer: Pence and his wife are deeply religious, and their views on homosexuality are based on their religious convictions. To this, I say, so what? The Bible was used to justify slavery, and in my own time, racists cited this or that biblical passage to assert that racial segregation was precisely what God intended — the so-called “curse of Ham” or the “mark of Cain,” both used to add biblical authority to the rantings of bigots. Now the mark or the curse is on the Pences, who share views that in our nation’s history have caused much suffering, including violence.