(Fox News) – Pete Buttigieg slammed Republicans on the issue of religion during the second night of the first Democratic presidential debate Thursday in Miami. The South Bend, Ind. Mayor, who declared Democrats as the party of “separation of church and state,” took a shot at the religious right discussing the separation of families at the border. “The Republican Party likes to cloak itself in the language of religion,” Buttigieg began.
“We should call hypocrisy, and for a party that associates with Christianity to say it is OK to suggest that God would smile on the division of families at the hands of federal agents, that God would condone putting children in cages has lost all claim to ever use religion language again.” The rising Democratic presidential candidate received a roaring applause as he expressed his support for decriminalizing border crossings. READ MORE
