Watch: VP-Elect Pence's Neighbors Protest His Anti-LGBT Views with Rainbow Flags

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Neighbors of Vice President-Elect Mike Pence, who is currently renting a $6,000-a-month home in Washington, are taking a stand against his anti-LGBT views by hanging rainbow pride flags, CNN reports.

Pence is living in the well-to-do Chevy Chase, Maryland neighborhood just Northwest of Washington, D.C. until he moves into the Vice President's residence and some of his neighbors are protesting the Indiana governor's terrible history with the LGBT community by installing rainbow flags on their homes.

CNN reports about a half-dozen pride flags are currently being showcased on the block where Pence lives. And more are likely on the way.

"A respectful message showing, in my case, my disagreement with some of his thinking," Ilse Heintzen told WJLA, a CNN affiliate, regarding the future vice president's views. "I have no idea what (the vice president elect) will think about, but I hope he will change his mind."

Though President-Elect Donald Trump promised to support the LGBT community, Pence has remained quiet and his voting history on gay rights has caused many to worry. In March 2015 Pence, as Indiana's governor, signed a measure into law that would allow businesses to refuse service to LGBT customers based on the business owners' "religious freedom."

"The Constitution of the United States and the Indiana Constitution both provide strong recognition of the freedom of religion but today, many people of faith feel their religious liberty is under attack by government action," Pence said at the time, according to CNN.

After outrage from business, including Apple, Pence signed a new version of the measure in April 2015 that prohibited discrimination based on sexual orientation.

Pence also tried to ban marriage equality in Indiana in 2014 and, in 2010 when he was a congressman, tried to repeal the now-defunct "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy. When he ran for Congress in 2000, CNN reports his website suggested he supported for conversion therapy. A spokesperson for Pence, however, denied this to The New York Times.

Pence, along with a number of Republicans, took issue with Obama's directive that would allow students to use bathrooms that correspond with their gender identity, rather than the gender on their birth certificate.

"The federal government has not business getting involved in issues of this nature," Pence said in a statement in May. "I am confident that parents, teachers and administrators will continue to resolve these matters without federal mandates and in a manner that reflects the common sense and compassion of our state."

Watch WJLA's report on Pence's neighbors in the video below.


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