Posted on 09/21/2019 12:32:06 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Pete Buttigieg, the first major openly gay candidate for president, is campaigning heavily in Iowa, a state that was among the first to sanction gay marriage.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The question posed to Pete Buttigieg — gay, married and running for president — came from a supporter at an Iowa campaign stop: What should he tell friends who say America isn't ready to elect a gay man as president?
That prompted a woman in the crowd to object with an expletive, igniting cheers from hundreds in the audience.
Of the many intriguing things about Buttigieg and his candidacy for president — his Ivy League, Rhodes Scholar pedigree and his war service in Afghanistan — a vital question overlaying the 2020 campaign is whether as a gay man his sexual orientation is a barrier to the nation's highest office.
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The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has not produced a president since.
There’ve been a lot of American presidents who have been sinners. Just like the rest of us. What brand of sin is worse than another? A more pertinent question is whether the sinner has repented of the sin. IMHO, that is.
Not only no, but hell no. Wasn’t Obama enough? In a polite and decent society, the question would never be asked, and if it was, the person asking would get his teeth knocked in.
“How about if a majority of Americans accept a thrice-married, confessed adulterer as President? “
There’s a big difference in someone acknowledging their short comings and someone who revels and actively promotes their depravity.
We just had one for 8 years. So, the answer is no.
The presidency is not a social experiment. Elect by qualifications. Not by unnatural use of the anal exit passageway.
NO!
We just finished 8 years of a “gay” president.
Crimes against nature and Nature’s God...
He was trying to make the world safe for perverts.
This fawning media crap is why I keep saying Buttgag will be their VP nominee.
America was not ready in 2008, but it was foisted upon us by the UniParty.
Will America vote for a man who kisses another man on stage? (I felt sick just typing that) Not as long as it’s a secret ballot.
buttigigity is in fifth place with 7.5% in the RCP poll average for Iowa:
so, i don’t think anybody needs to worry about him being elected to anything in Iowa, or anywhere else nationally for that matter ...
Rumors of Obama being on the downlow... Hillary is a straight up bulldyke rumors in the corridors at Main State... Billy Goat Clinton going every which way but loose....
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