Buttigieg to Pence: My marriage "brought me closer to God"

Pete ButtigiegPeter (Pete) Paul ButtigiegThe Morning & # 39; s Morning Report – Trump spends more time on Mexico and China Despite calls for the demolition of the Electoral College, it may not be that bad for Dems Buttigieg to say that he stopped using the phrase "all lives matter", the openly gay mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Sunday criticized vice president Pence as saying that his marriage to Chasten Buttigieg had brought him closer to "God."

"Being married to Chasten has made me a better human being because it has made me more compassionate, more understanding, more self-aware and more decent," he said at LGBT Victory's annual brunch. Fund.

"My marriage to Chasten made me a better man. And yes, Mr Vice-President, it has brought me closer to God, "he added, causing applause.

Pence is opposed to the legalization of gay marriage, which, according to him, stems from his Christian faith. Pence is evangelical and, before the White House, attended a church affiliated with the Free Evangelical Church of America, while Buttigieg was Episcopalian.

Buttigieg, who is seeking to run for the presidency of the 2020 Democratic Party, added Sunday that if Pence and others had a "problem" with who Buttigieg was, then their problem was not with Buttigieg but with his "creator".

"Speaking only to myself, I can tell you that if being gay was a choice, it was a choice that was made, well above my pay level," he said. said Buttigieg.

"And that's what I would like Mike Pence to understand," he said. "If you have a problem with who I am, your problem does not come from me – your argument, sir, concerns my creator."