Buttigieg responds to protesters shouting "Sodom and Gomorrah"

Presidential hope Pete ButtigiegPeter (Pete) Paul ButtigiegMaddow and Buttigieg discuss their new stories. Buttigieg says he hopes that her husband and he will have children, Sanders, on the fact that he's too old to be president: "Follow me during the election campaign" CONTINUED (D) was recently confronted with two protesters shouting against the biblical cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.

Two protesters interrupted Buttigieg, who is openly homosexual, during a speech in Fort Dodge, Iowa, shouting about the two cities that the Bible claims to have destroyed by what she calls sinful acts, including sodomy. They were quickly chased by a crowd of 1,650 people chanting the southern curvature, Indiana, the mayor's name and escorted out of the area by security.

"The good news is that the condition of my soul is in the hands of God, but the Iowa caucuses are at your expense," said Buttigieg after the first protester was taken away from the crowd.

"Do not forget the beauty of our democracy – everyone here has exactly the same voice and the same vote – it's like being in the numbers," he added after the suppression of the second protester.

When asked to comment further on the protesters, Buttigieg's campaign gave The Hill the candidate's statements during the event.

Buttigieg's sexual orientation has been in the spotlight in recent days as he was arguing with Vice President Pence over the positions of the former Governor of Indiana at the time. The LGBTQ community. He was particularly critical of a 2015 law signed by Pence, which allowed corporations to use religious freedom as a defense if they felt the government was violating their religious practice. Critics said the law would allow businesses to discriminate against the LGBTQ community.

"The Vice President has the right to believe in his religious beliefs," Buttigieg said Tuesday at CNN's "New Day." "My problem is that these religious beliefs serve as an excuse to harm others."

"It was a huge problem for us in Indiana when it introduced a discriminatory bill in 2015 under the pretext of freedom of religion that stipulated that it was lawful to discriminate, provided you invoked religion as excuse, "he added.

However, Buttigieg had not launched such public and personal attacks on his sexuality during his election campaign until Tuesday.

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