
WATCH: Pete Buttigieg questions President Trump’s belief in God
Democrat Pete Buttigieg is picking up steam for potentially being the first “openly gay” president.
I’ll give him this – out of all of the rest of them, Buttigieg carries himself least like a psycho. He actually speaks like a mostly normal human being. I listened to what he had to say on Bill Maher’s show a few weeks back, and I think we need to be careful when it comes to underestimating this guy. He’s smart, and he knows what he’s doing. I think he could go really far.
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He just massively screwed up though. Buttigieg has been saying that Democrats need to be more accepting of faith – something I think he’s smart to do. Dems have waged a war against Christianity for a while – I’m sure some will appreciate his apparent embracing of faith.
It may be worth noting that Buttigieg himself is openly gay. I know other conservatives take issue with that, but I don’t. I think many politicians do things in their personal lives I find significantly more egregious. His sexuality doesn’t change my opinion of him one way or another.
This, however, does. Buttigieg is now attacking Christians who stand by Trump:
Yiiiikes, dude. Really?
While he has yet to official declare his candidacy for president, the mayor has been critical of Trump, questioning if he’s really a Christian during an interview with USA Today: “I’m reluctant to comment on another person’s faith, but I would say it is hard to look at this president’s actions and believe that they’re the actions of somebody who believes in God.”
This prompted Chuck Todd, host of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” to ask Buttigieg how he squares his assessment “with the fact that the evangelical community is so devoted to his candidacy.”
“It’s something that frustrates me because the hypocrisy is unbelievable,” Buttigieg said, before regurgitating Democratic talking points that undermine the president’s character, beginning with his desire to enforce immigration laws.
“Here, you have somebody who not only acts in a way that is not consistent with anything that I hear in scripture or in church, where it’s about lifting up the least among us and taking care of strangers, which is another word for immigrants,” he remarked. “And making sure that you’re focusing your effort on the poor. But also personally, how you’re supposed to conduct yourself. Not chest thumping look-at-me-ism, but humbling yourself before others. Foot washing is one of the central images in the New Testament. And we see the diametric opposite of that in this presidency.”
Buttigieg took additional jabs at evangelicals, saying Trump decided to “pretend to be pro-life… which was good enough to bring many evangelicals over to his side.”
This, of course, coming from someone who is decidedly NOT pro-life:
While the city-council of his Indiana town voted 5-4 to allow for a local crisis pregnancy center, “Mayor Pete” vetoed the pro-life decision:
“Issues on the legality or morality of abortion are dramatically beyond my paygrade as a mayor,” he said. “I don’t think it would be responsible to situate two groups, literally right next to each other, in a neighborhood, that have diametrically opposed views on the most divisive social issue of our time.”
So instead, he’s going to allow Planned Parenthood to stand alone, like a good little Democrat.
Lifenews.com reported the Democratic mayor “also failed to condemn legislation that would legalize infanticide and expand abortion access.”
“You’re not free if your reproductive choices are being dictated by male politicians in Washington,” he was quoted as saying in a recent campaign speech.
And yet Buttigieg has the gall to call other Christians hypocrites for supporting our President.
It’s kind of unbelievable, isn’t it?
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