Pence Accuses (The Also Christian) Buttigieg Of Attacking His ‘Christian Faith’

FILE - In this March 18, 2013 file photo, South Bend Mayor Peter Buttigieg speaks to reporters about a plane crash in South Bend, Ind. Buttigieg has come out as gay in a newly published essay. The first-term Democrat... FILE - In this March 18, 2013 file photo, South Bend Mayor Peter Buttigieg speaks to reporters about a plane crash in South Bend, Ind. Buttigieg has come out as gay in a newly published essay. The first-term Democratic mayor writes in an essay published Tuesday, June 16, 2015, in the South Bend Tribune that he was well into adulthood "before I was prepared to acknowledge the simple fact that I am gay." (AP Photo/Joe Raymond, FILE) MORE LESS
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Vice President Mike Pence accused South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who is a devout Christian, of attacking his “Christian faith” in the most recent volley between the two Hoosiers over Buttigieg’s sexual orientation and Pence’s anti-LGBTQ beliefs.

“I hope that Pete will offer more to the American people than attacks on my Christian faith or attacks on the President as he seeks the highest office in the land,” Pence told CNN. “He’d do well to reflect on the importance of respecting the freedom of religion of every American.”

Buttigieg responded during an appearance on “Ellen.”

“I’m not critical of his faith; I’m critical of bad policies,” he said. “I don’t have a problem with religion — I’m religious too. I have a problem with religion being used as a justification to harm people and especially in the LGBTQ community.”

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  1. Just pointing out Pence’s abject hypocrisy.

  2. All, Attack!, Evangelical Christianity for their 40 year alliance with the GOP in an attempt to bring a Right- wing theocratic dictatorship to this country which has culminated in their electing a Satanic president in league with Russia, and other dictatorial powers, in an effort to institute an oligarchic fascistic kleptocracy that gives lip service to the non-existant Evangelical Christian God who has become, unbeknownst to them, Satan himself. Whew!

  3. The mere existence of Pence is an attack on many people.

  4. See, this is why Buttigieg is getting his Christian bona fides in order. Good for him and fuck Mike Pence.

  5. If Beelzebub had a service animal, I’m reasonably sure it would be Mike Pence.

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