OPINION (FW) – Pete Buttigieg got it half right when he suggested this week he “can’t imagine” God would be a Republican. But the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, missed the mark on the other half of the equation. Buttigieg, a candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, told Craig Melvin of NBC’s “Today” show that God wouldn’t be a member of the political party “that sent the current president into the White House,” referring to Donald Trump.
The 37-year-old politician, who is Episcopalian, said it’s “important that we stop seeing religion used as a kind of cudgel, as if God belonged to a political party.” He also addressed this issue in April, when, during a CNN town hall, the presidential hopeful said, “At the very least, we should be able to establish that God does not have a political party.” During his NBC interview with Melvin, Buttigieg became guilty of the very thing he decried just seconds before. He used his faith — like he has several times now — READ MORE
