Pete Buttigieg draws criticism for saying gay marriage brought him closer to God

Christian Post ^ | 04/12/2019 | Leonardo Blair

[SeekAndFind]

Openly-gay Democrat presidential candidate and mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Pete Buttigieg, has drawn criticism for declaring that his same sex-marriage has moved him “closer to God,” and telling Vice President Mike Pence and conservative Christians to “quarrel” with God if they have a problem with his homosexuality.

"My marriage to Chasten has made me a better man — and yes, Mr. Vice President, it has moved me closer to God," Buttigieg declared during a speech at the LGBT Victory Fund's annual brunch in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, according to USA Today. "And that's the thing I wish the Mike Pence's of the world would understand, that if you've got a problem with who I am, your problem is not with me. Your quarrel, sir, is with my creator."

Buttigieg, 37, who is a veteran, a Rhodes scholar and graduate of Harvard, lives with his husband, Chasten, in the same South Bend neighborhood where he grew up, with their two rescue dogs, Truman and Buddy.

Last month, during a Q&A at The South by Southwest Conference & Festivals in Austin, Texas, he said he tries to live a life that is “consistent with Christian teachings” and questioned whether Pence truly believes in Scripture.

“First of all I try to live a life that is consistent with Christian teachings. I know that it is my responsibility not to ever do anything that would in public life, not be equally beneficial or make as much sense to people of another faith or people of no faith. But in my life I believe in that Christian ethic, the idea that was drilled into me in Catholic school even though I’m not Catholic, I’m Episcopalian,” he said.

[Verginius Rufus]

There is nothing in the Iliad to suggest that Achilles is a homosexual. His quarrel with Agamemnon begins when Agamemnon takes Achilles' captive slave girl away. Later, Achilles and Patroclus each has a slave girl to sleep with.

Of course later Greeks, when homosexuality had become fashionable, would interpret the Achilles-Patroclus friendship as having a sexual component.

[YogicCowboy]

Yes.

[YogicCowboy]

They are seldom gay.

They are never homosexual.

They are not married.

They are homoerotic fetishists who embrace multiple delusions.

[Sans-Culotte]

There is nothing in the Iliad to suggest that Achilles is a homosexual. His quarrel with Agamemnon begins when Agamemnon takes Achilles' captive slave girl away. Later, Achilles and Patroclus each has a slave girl to sleep with.

Yes, I know that the Achilles/Patroclus relationship is not portrayed as homosexual in The Iliad, but they were often thought of as such later. However, I have read that in Greek culture of their golden age, that it was common for a man to be married and father children while still having a "special" relationship with a young man. If these stories are true, then they must have been far more manly homosexuals than today's soy boys.

[Texan4Life]

Kuwaiti Academic Dr. Mariam Al-Sohel invents anal suppositories that “cure” homosexuality based on Muslim “prophetic medicine,” she claims: “this is all science.”

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