Mike Pence rule

The Pense rule also known as the Mike Pense rule, Billy Graham rule and the Modesto Manifesto is a procedure followed by a growing number of men. The men avoid being with women they do not know well without witnesses being present.

The rule grew out of an older practice by paster Billy Graham and others in which they would avoid

Originally used by male evangelical Protestant leaders as a display of integrity, a means of avoiding sexual temptation, to avoid any appearance of doing something considered morally objectionable, as well as for avoiding accusations of sexual harassment or assault.

In 2017, it began to be also called the Mike Pence rule, after the US vice president, a practicing Christian, who also supported the idea.