{"id":481135,"date":"2019-01-21T09:02:36","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T16:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=782040"},"modified":"2019-01-21T09:02:36","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T16:02:36","slug":"lady-gaga-to-mike-pence-you-are-the-worst-representation-of-what-it-means-to-be-a-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/lady-gaga-to-mike-pence-you-are-the-worst-representation-of-what-it-means-to-be-a-christian\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Gaga to Mike Pence: \u2018You Are the Worst Representation of What It Means to Be a Christian\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/shutterstock_10003847be.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/lady-gaga\">Lady Gaga<\/a> criticized Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/mike-pence\/\">Mike Pence<\/a> during the singer\u2019s <em>Enigma<\/em> concert Saturday night in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the week, Pence\u2019s wife Karen revealed she would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/culture-news\/karen-pence-anti-lgbtq-school-teach-2-780283\/\">resume teaching at a Christian school that barred LGBTQ students and employees<\/a>. Following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-news\/mike-pence-lgbtq-781234\/\">the uproar over Karen Pence\u2019s role at the school<\/a>, the vice president responded, \u201cTo see major news organizations attacking Christian education is deeply offensive to us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, during her performance of \u201cMillion Reasons,\u201d Gaga slammed Pence for thinking \u201cit\u2019s acceptable that his wife work at a school that bans LGBTQ. You are wrong!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou say we should not discriminate against Christianity. You are the worst representation of what it means to be a Christian,\u201d Gaga said in her mid-song interlude aimed at Pence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am a Christian woman, and what I do know about Christianity is that we bear no prejudice and everybody is welcome. So you can take all that disgrace Mr. Pence and you can look yourself in the mirror and you\u2019ll find it right there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gaga also lashed out at Donald Trump during \u201cMillion Reasons,\u201d asking if \u201cthe fucking president of the United States could please put our government back in business.\u201d The singer added, \u201cThere are people who live paycheck to paycheck and need their money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch Gaga\u2019s address to Pence and Trump below:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.5107296137339\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">We need more people like Gaga to not be afraid and to speak up. What she says here, thank you for using your voice <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ladygaga?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">@ladygaga<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ENIGMA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">#ENIGMA<\/a> \u2764\ufe0f??????? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kPmJim1VUp\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/kPmJim1VUp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kara (@gagaamour) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gagaamour\/status\/1086896351885942784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">January 20, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/lady-gaga-mike-pence-worst-representation-christian-782040\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lady Gaga criticized Vice President Mike Pence during the singer\u2019s Enigma concert Saturday night in Las Vegas. Earlier in the week, Pence\u2019s wife Karen revealed she would resume teaching at a Christian school that barred LGBTQ students and employees. Following the uproar over Karen Pence\u2019s role at the school, the vice president responded, \u201cTo see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-481135","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 20:53:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}