2020 candidate Pete Buttigieg slams the 'hypocrisy' of evangelicals who support Trump

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2020 candidate Pete Buttigieg slams the 'hypocrisy' of evangelicals who support Trump
Eliza Relman
Apr. 8, 2019, 10:23 AM

Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who's running for president, condemned what he called the "hypocrisy" of evangelicals and other Christians who support President Donald Trump.
Buttigieg, a gay Christian, has questioned Trump's belief in God, as well as Vice President Mike Pence's interpretation of Scripture.
"I can't believe that somebody who was caught writing hush-money checks to adult-film actresses is somebody they should be lifting up as the kind of person you want to be leading this nation," Buttigieg said on Sunday's "Meet the Press."

Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who's running for president, condemned what he called the "hypocrisy" of evangelicals and other Christians who support President Donald Trump during a Sunday interview.

Buttigieg, a gay Episcopalian Christian, has also recently questioned Trump's belief in God and argued that a man who he had never seen "humble himself before anyone" shouldn't earn the support of Christians.

"It's something that really frustrates me, because the hypocrisy is unbelievable," Buttigieg said during an interview on NBC News' "Meet the Press."

"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, and making sure that you're focusing your effort on the poor, but also personally how you're supposed to conduct yourself," he said.

Buttigieg called Trump the "diametric opposite" of a devout Christian and argued that Trump gets such strong evangelical support because he would "pretend to be pro-life."

"Even on the version of Christianity that you hear from the religious right, which is about sexual ethics, I can't believe that somebody who was caught writing hush-money checks to adult-film actresses is somebody they should be lifting up as the kind of person you want to be leading this nation," Buttigieg said, referring to the $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels, the adult-film actress who has said she had an affair with Trump years ago.

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[Dan]

1. I have always wondered what

Values Christians shared with Trump?

[Freethinker65]

4. For many "Christian" leaders it is power, control, money, messiah complex narcissism, and misogyny

Those are the leaders' true values. Trump is their guy.

Their followers have often been so indoctrinated they are left devoid of any critical thinking skills.

[BeckyDem]

6. +10

You hit the bullseye.

[mtnsnake]

2. Thank you, Mayor Pete, for consistently being the gutsiest of all the candidates

and for going into unchartered waters where few politicians are willing to venture, such as confronting the evangelical hypocrites of this country. You rock!!

[brer cat]

5. He has positioned himself with the creds

to call out the hypocrites and I hope he keeps it up.

[Cirque du So-What]

3. Many so-called 'christians' don't care about Rump's character

They're happy if he's smiting their perceived enemies and working toward fulfilling their agenda.

[mtnsnake]

7. Too bad the other candidates don't confront the hypocritical evangelicals like Mayor Pete does

If Joe Biden did, this thread would have 150 recs by now instead of only 12 recs after 6 hours.

[Hekate]

8. KnR