Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Right-Wingers Spread Lie That Pete Buttigieg Isn’t a Real Christian

From The Daily Beast-

But an increasing number of right-wing figures, displeased that Buttigieg has taken to pointing out the plank in their eye, have begun undercutting Buttigieg’s religiosity by dismissing him as not “really” Christian—not because he’s gay, but because, like 11 American presidents, he’s an Episcopalian.

“He says he’s a traditional Episcopalian, whatever that means these days,” Fox News host Laura Ingraham said in a segment that dismissed Buttigieg as “but another creation of a media apparatus desperate to oust Trump.”

“If Buttigieg thinks evangelicals should be supporting him instead of Trump, he fundamentally does not understand the roots of Christianity,” conservative commentator and reformed #NeverTrump Republican Erick Erickson tweeted on Sunday. “But then he is an Episcopalian, so he might not actually understand Christianity more than superficially.”

More here-

https://www.thedailybeast.com/right-wingers-spread-lie-that-pete-buttigieg-isnt-a-real-christian 

also here-

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/09/opinions/pete-buttigieg-mike-pence-erick-erickson-christian-progressives-graves-fitzsimmons/index.html

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