{"id":122192,"date":"2019-05-07T15:51:16","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T19:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=122192"},"modified":"2019-05-07T15:51:16","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T19:51:16","slug":"buttigieg-will-face-the-wrath-of-the-right-because-of-normalizing-a-married-gay-potus-scenario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=122192","title":{"rendered":"Buttigieg Will Face the Wrath of the <i>Right<\/i> Because of Normalizing a Married Gay POTUS Scenario"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Mayor Pete Buttigieg Faces Anti-Gay Hecklers in Dallas<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->BY TARA LAW<br \/>\nTIME<\/p>\n<p>Presidential candidate and South Bend, Ind., Mayor\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/longform\/pete-buttigieg-2020\/\">Pete Buttigieg<\/a> was heckled by several anti-gay protesters at a campaign event in Dallas on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Buttigieg, the first openly gay man to run for President, was speaking at an event hosted by the Dallas County Democratic Party when he was interrupted by multiple hecklers, shouting calls such as \u201cMarriage is between a man and a woman!\u201d and \u201cRepent,\u201d according to CNN\u2019s DJ Judd.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pete Buttigieg has been interrupted four times here in Dallas by protesters. One yelled \u201cMarriage is between a man and a woman!\u201d Another yelled \u201cRepent!\u201d After the 4th, Buttigieg continued, \u201cThe moment I packed my bags for Afghanistan, to defend that man\u2019s freedom of speech&#8230;\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zIpDSCIrti\">pic.twitter.com\/zIpDSCIrti<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; DJ Judd (@DJJudd) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DJJudd\/status\/1124475711652335616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 4, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>As the hecklers were escorted out of the event, Buttigieg acknowledged to the crowd that he had fought for their right to protest, according to journalist Marcus DiPaola. Buttigieg was deployed to Afghanistan for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.southbendtribune.com\/news\/local\/buttigieg-reflects-on-afghanistan-and-return-to-south-bend\/article_8f27067e-a123-525e-9bab-4d8c52e479ae.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">six months on active duty<\/a>\u00a0as a navy officer.<\/p>\n<p>A woman, who event staff said did not have a ticket, was also escorted out of the venue after crying out anti-abortion comments, according to a video tweeted by Judd.<\/p>\n<div class=\"component embed-twitter js-embed-twitter social-embed\" data-embed-type=\"twitter\" data-embed-id=\"1124473681101639682\">\n<div class=\"SandboxRoot env-bp-350\" data-twitter-event-id=\"2\">\n<div id=\"twitter-widget-2\" class=\"EmbeddedTweet EmbeddedTweet--cta js-clickToOpenTarget tweet-InformationCircle-widgetParent\" lang=\"en\" data-click-to-open-target=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marcusdipaola\/status\/1124473681101639682\" data-iframe-title=\"Twitter Tweet\" data-scribe=\"page:tweet\" data-twitter-event-id=\"4\">\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-ancestor EmbeddedTweet-ancestor--repliesRefresh\" data-scribe=\"section:conversation\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Anti-gay protester Randall Terry is back and yelling at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PeteButtigieg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PeteButtigieg<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SBwjP8ocTZ\">pic.twitter.com\/SBwjP8ocTZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Marcus J. DiPaola (@marcusdipaola) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marcusdipaola\/status\/1124473681101639682?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 4, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Buttigieg has been openly gay since 2015, when he publish an op-ed about his identity in the South Bend\u00a0<em>Tribune<\/em>. He married his husband, Chasten Buttigieg, last year.<\/p>\n<p>After the event, presidential candidate and former Texas Rep. Beto O\u2019Rourke defended Buttigieg on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTexans don\u2019t stand for this kind of homophobia and hatred,\u201d O\u2019Rourke wrote. \u201cMayor Pete, we are grateful you came to Texas and hope to see you and Chasten back again soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Texans don\u2019t stand for this kind of homophobia and hatred. Mayor Pete, we are grateful you came to Texas and hope to see you and Chasten back again soon. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IhRDtIBREb\">https:\/\/t.co\/IhRDtIBREb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Beto O&#39;Rourke (@BetoORourke) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BetoORourke\/status\/1124522210234970113?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 4, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Both Buttigieg and O\u2019Rourke are considered to be serious contenders for the Democratic nomination. The most recent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/poll.qu.edu\/national\/release-detail?ReleaseID=2617\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Quinnipiac poll, from April 30<\/a>, said that Buttigieg is ranking fourth among Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters with 10% of the polls (behind Joe Biden, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Sen. Bernie Sanders). O\u2019Rourke ranked sixth, with 5% of the vote.<\/p>\n<div class=\"component embed-twitter js-embed-twitter social-embed\" data-embed-type=\"twitter\" data-embed-id=\"1124522210234970113\">\n<div class=\"SandboxRoot env-bp-350\" data-twitter-event-id=\"0\">\n<div id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"EmbeddedTweet EmbeddedTweet--cta js-clickToOpenTarget tweet-InformationCircle-widgetParent\" lang=\"en\" data-click-to-open-target=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BetoORourke\/status\/1124522210234970113\" data-iframe-title=\"Twitter Tweet\" data-scribe=\"page:tweet\" data-twitter-event-id=\"3\">\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweetContainer\">\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweet\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Buttigieg\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/longform\/pete-buttigieg-2020\/\">told TIME<\/a>\u00a0earlier this year that his observation of homophobic behavior has convinced him that people can change and earn forgiveness.<\/p>\n<p>BY TARA LAW\u201cThis idea that we just sort people into baskets of good and evil ignores the central fact of human existence, which is that each of us is a basket of good and evil,\u201d said Buttigieg, \u201cThe job of politics is to summon the good and beat back the evil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Correction, May 4:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>The original version of this story misstated the results of the April 30 Quinnipiac poll. Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders polled ahead of Pete Buttigieg.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/5583265\/pete-butigieg-anti-gay-texas\/\">http:\/\/time.com\/5583265\/pete-butigieg-anti-gay-texas\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor Pete Buttigieg Faces Anti-Gay Hecklers in Dallas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}