Capital City Pride pulls out of Mississippi Book Festival in response to Pence visit

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Source: WAPT

Capital City Pride pulls out of Mississippi Book Festival in response to Pence visit

Updated: 2:12 PM CDT Aug 19, 2023

Michaila Franklin
Reporter/Anchor

JACKSON, Miss. - Mississippi Capital City Pride has withdrawn volunteer support for the Mississippi Book Festival.

They made the decision after learning former Vice President Mike Pence would attend the event in Jackson to promote his book, “So Help Me God.”

“We felt like, as an organization, we couldn’t volunteer this year because he’s everything that we are against,” said Jason McCarty, with Capital City Pride.

The organization has, in past years, hosted a breakfast for the writers. But because Pence, a presidential candidate, has been outspoken about his opposition to same-sex marriage and supports a nationwide ban on gender-affirming care for trans minors, they pulled out of this year’s event.


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Eminently reasonable.

[dem4decades]

1. Maybe they still should have attended, it's letting hate win.

But I support them no matter what.

[ZonkerHarris]

4. staying is normalization and acceptance

[EarnestPutz]

7. Not attending would have been OK for anything else, but books are cause unto themselves.

[keithbvadu2]

2. Pence will consider that a win.

[JI7]

3. I think they should have stayed

Tryng to keep out lgbt is what they are tryng to do.

[ificandream]

5. Yes, they should have stayed.

It would at the least made Pence uncomfortable.

[Grins]

6. The Party that bans books was ...

…going to a book fair? And the people who run the book fair invited him?

Weird.