Buttigieg: ‘I’m not going to be lectured’ by Limbaugh
February 16, 2020
Pete Buttigieg said on Sunday he isn’t taking “lectures on family values” from Rush Limbaugh, chiding conservative figures who have attacked the Democratic presidential candidate over his homosexuality.
The Democratic presidential candidate defended his marriage during an interview with host Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday,” saying that America has “moved on” from the idea that a person who identifies as LGBTQ can’t become president.
“I'm proud of my marriage. And I'm proud of my husband,” Buttigieg said. “And I am saddened for what the Republican Party has become if they embrace that kind of homophobic rhetoric.”
Limbaugh, who recently received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Donald Trump, suggested that Buttigieg’s youth and same-sex marriage could be an issue for voters in November if he were to secure the Democratic nomination.
“A gay guy, 37-years-old, loves kissing his husband on debate stages,” Limbaugh said on his radio show. “Can you see Trump have fun with that?”
Another Trump supporter, Sebastian Gorka, criticized Buttigieg last week for talking about abortion rights.
“Why is that homosexual man lecturing us about the sanctity of life in the womb? Just a little curious there, strange,” Gorka said.
The two-term mayor also attempted to dispel concerns that social conservatives would have trouble voting for him over his sexual orientation by citing his electoral victories in his “socially conservative community” of South Bend, Ind.
“I came out during a general election in South Bend, and this was at a time when Mike Pence was the governor of Indiana, and we didn't know what would happen,” Buttigieg said. “I tell you what happened, I got reelected with 80% of the vote.”
Source: https://www.politico.com/
