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Although it's sold out, Charlotte Pence snagged a copy that reimagines her pet rabbit as a gay marriage equality crusader.
"Please buy it for your children, buy it for any child you know, or buy it because you know it would annoy Mike Pence," John Oliver told his Last Week Tonight viewers when releasing a children's book about the vice president's bunny fighting for marriage equality. Apparently, one of the buyers looking to annoy Pence is his 24-year-old daughter, Charlotte.
"I have bought his book," she told The Hill's In the Know column,"He's giving proceeds of the book to charity, and we're also giving proceeds of our book to charity, so I really think that we can all get behind it."
A major motivator for making a parody of Pence's book about her now-infamous rabbit, Marlon Bundo, was that her book tour included a stop at Focus on the Family. The organization has long been tied to the abusive practice of so-called conversion therapy, a practice Mike Pence once appeared to endorse on his congressional campaign website.
Proceeds from the Second Family's picture book will be donated to A21, an anti-human trafficking nonprofit. The book released by Oliver (penned by Jill Twiss, a writer for his show) is raising funds for LGBT causes, donating its sales to the Trevor Project and AIDS United.
"It doesn't have to be divisive. I think that everybody can come together over Marlon," Charlotte Pence continued. She also tweeted out that she's "Happy to support charities and important causes."
The stop at Focus on the Family on Charlotte Pence's book tour has not been canceled.
