Just in time for Easter comes Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg. Married and gay. Catholic turned Episcopalian. A social justice progressive who speaks easily about his faith and God, as Democrats rarely do.
Just in time for uncomfortable family get-togethers this Sunday, Buttigieg is driving home the hypocrisy of church-going conservative white Christians, evangelical and Catholic, who still support a president whose policies go against Christianity at almost every turn. (Why just "white" Christians? Because black Christians barely support Trump at all).
"We have this totally warped idea of what Christianity should be like when it comes to the public sphere, and it's mostly about exclusion," said Buttigieg,the mayor of South Bend, Ind.
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