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[[File:Buttigieg.jpg|x250px|left|thumb|In the progressive tradition of [[Jim Jones]]' "Rainbow family",<ref>https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/jonestown-race/</ref> Buttigieg touts himself as America's first openly gay presidential candidate.<ref>https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2018/11/jonestown-cult-leader-jim-jones-bisexual-friends-harvey-milk/</ref> ]]

[[File:Buttigieg.jpg|x250px|left|thumb|In the progressive tradition of [[Jim Jones]]' "Rainbow family",<ref>https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/jonestown-race/</ref> Buttigieg touts himself as America's first openly gay presidential candidate.<ref>https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2018/11/jonestown-cult-leader-jim-jones-bisexual-friends-harvey-milk/</ref> ]]

Buttigieg claims to be a strong Christian, though in reality, he holds strongly anti-religious views.<ref>McGhee, Kylie (November 5, 2019). [https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/pete-buttigieg-is-anti-religion-hes-just-good-at-hiding-it Pete Buttigieg is anti-religion; he's just good at hiding it]. ''Washington Examiner''. Retrieved November 7, 2019.<br>See also:

Buttigieg claims to be a strong Christian, though in reality, he holds strongly anti-religious views.<ref>McGhee, Kylie (November 5, 2019). [https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/pete-buttigieg-is-anti-religion-hes-just-good-at-hiding-it Pete Buttigieg is anti-religion; he's just good at hiding it]. ''Washington Examiner''. Retrieved November 7, 2019.<br>See also:

*Tennant, Michael (November 12, 2019). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/faith-and-morals/item/34019-mayor-pete-the-most-dangerous-candidate-for-christianity Mayor Pete: The Most Dangerous Candidate for Christianity]. ''The New American''. Retrieved November 12, 2019.</ref> He has claimed the Bible contains contradictions and thus is not [[Biblical inerrancy|inerrant]], though he still twists it to support his ideological views.<ref>Gage, John (November 21, 2019). [https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/buttigieg-i-am-not-cherry-picking-the-bible-it-is-just-inconsistent-internally Buttigieg: I am not 'cherry-picking' the Bible, it is just 'inconsistent internally']. ''Washington Examiner''. Retrieved November 21, 2019.</ref><ref>Duke, Selwyn (November 23, 2019). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/34120-the-church-of-st-pete-buttigieg-says-bible-is-inconsistent-but-can-justify-abortion The Church of St. Pete: Buttigieg Says Bible is “Inconsistent,” but Can Justify Abortion]. ''The New American''. Retrieved November 23, 2019.</ref>

*Tennant, Michael (November 12, 2019). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/faith-and-morals/item/34019-mayor-pete-the-most-dangerous-candidate-for-christianity Mayor Pete: The Most Dangerous Candidate for Christianity]. ''The New American''. Retrieved November 12, 2019.</ref> He has claimed the Bible contains contradictions and thus is not [[Biblical inerrancy|inerrant]], though he still twists it to support his ideological views.<ref>Gage, John (November 21, 2019). [https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/buttigieg-i-am-not-cherry-picking-the-bible-it-is-just-inconsistent-internally Buttigieg: I am not 'cherry-picking' the Bible, it is just 'inconsistent internally']. ''Washington Examiner''. Retrieved November 21, 2019.</ref><ref>Duke, Selwyn (November 23, 2019). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/34120-the-church-of-st-pete-buttigieg-says-bible-is-inconsistent-but-can-justify-abortion The Church of St. Pete: Buttigieg Says Bible is “Inconsistent,” but Can Justify Abortion]. ''The New American''. Retrieved November 23, 2019.</ref><ref>Williams, Thomas D. (December 28, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2019/12/28/christian-post-pete-buttigiegs-bible-missing-lot-pages/ Christian Post: Pete Buttigieg’s Bible ‘Missing a Lot of Pages’]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved December 28, 2019.</ref>

Buttigieg's "faith journey" begins with father, who studied to become a Jesuit for a time, and although the elder Buttigieg later became irreligious, and in his memoir, "Shortest Way Home," "Mayor Pete" credits Catholicism with awakening his moral conscience, "as a voice for the oppressed and downtrodden," which he sees homosexuals as. However, as a proponent of The Federal Equality Act, Buttigieg supports persecuting those who uphold the rejecting the incontrovertible Biblical teaching that only condemns homosexual relations and only joins male and female in marriage, as the Lord Jesus Himself specified.<ref>[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+19%3A4-6&version=KJV; Matthew 19:4-6]</ref><ref>[http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/Homosex_versus_the_Bible.html HOMOSEXUAL RELATIONS and the BIBLE]</ref>  

Buttigieg's "faith journey" begins with father, who studied to become a Jesuit for a time, and although the elder Buttigieg later became irreligious, and in his memoir, "Shortest Way Home," "Mayor Pete" credits Catholicism with awakening his moral conscience, "as a voice for the oppressed and downtrodden," which he sees homosexuals as. However, as a proponent of The Federal Equality Act, Buttigieg supports persecuting those who uphold the rejecting the incontrovertible Biblical teaching that only condemns homosexual relations and only joins male and female in marriage, as the Lord Jesus Himself specified.<ref>[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+19%3A4-6&version=KJV; Matthew 19:4-6]</ref><ref>[http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/Homosex_versus_the_Bible.html HOMOSEXUAL RELATIONS and the BIBLE]</ref>