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"Because my party's been so allergic to religious language, we've forgotten that people need to be made aware of their choice," Buttigieg told CNN. "I've got to speak up, if only to point out the hypocrisies of those now in power," he added. "Time will tell whether that's smart politically or not." Thus far, it seems to be working. Progressives, particularly LGBT Christians, have cheerfully circulated his critiques of the religious right and lauded the gay Christian's candidacy as a watershed moment for a community long shunted to the margins of church life. *** The son of a former Jesuit,...

“Literally, there were fireworks on our first date,” Chasten Buttigieg said last year. “It was kind of ridiculous, I know, but I was hooked" Pete Buttigieg, then the first-term mayor of South Bend, Indiana, was years away from declaring himself a Democratic candidate for president when he matched on the dating app Hinge with Chasten Glezman, then a master’s student in education living in Chicago. Three years later and they were married, an occasion marked by The New York Times. As Buttigieg, 37, recalls on the newest episode of the podcast LGBTQ&A, available on Tuesday on Luminary, he came across...