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[[File:Mr. and Mr. Buttigieg.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Mr. & Mr. Pete Buttigieg.]]

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'''Peter (Paul Montgomery) Buttigieg ''' (pron. ''Peter Boota-judge''<ref>[https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=242106 Buttigieg, Pete]</ref>) was born January 19, 1982, and is the mayor of South Bend, [[Indiana]] since 2012.<ref>[https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/19/us/pete-buttigieg-fast-facts/index.html] Pete Buttigieg Fast Facts</ref> and a 2020 Democrat Presidential candidate. The son of a first-generation immigrant from Malta and Jesuit seminarian turned secular pro-Marxist professor and a scholar of linguistics at Notre Dame, Pete Buttigieg claims to be a Christian while clearly being critically anti-Christian in much of his life, morals, and ideology (see Ideology below). Among many other aspects of such, Buttigieg is an avowed homosexual who is married to a biological male, and who supports abortion on demand as well as many goals of the [[homosexual agenda]].

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'''Peter (Paul Montgomery) Buttigieg ''' (pron. ''Peter Boota-judge''<ref>[https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=242106 Buttigieg, Pete]</ref>) was born January 19, 1982, and is the mayor of South Bend, [[Indiana]] since 2012.<ref>[https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/19/us/pete-buttigieg-fast-facts/index.html] Pete Buttigieg Fast Facts</ref> and a 2020 Democrat Presidential candidate. The son of a first-generation immigrant from Malta and Jesuit seminarian turned secular pro-Marxist professor and a scholar of linguistics at Notre Dame, Pete Buttigieg claims to be a Christian while clearly being critically anti-Christian in much of his life, morals, and ideology (see Ideology below). Among many other aspects of such, Buttigieg is an avowed homosexual who is married to a biological male, and who supports abortion on demand as well as many goals of the [[homosexual agenda]].

As the son of a scholar of linguistics, Pete Buttigieg shows that he understands the power of deceptive sophistical propaganda, and frequently uses the word "security" as a major theme, this being mentioned 27 times in his position page, from "climate security" to economic security to security from intimidation, under the guise that his policies are virtuous, when in reality such are shown to cause the opposite. Likewise, he often employs the term "harm" such as in portraying The [[Religious Freedom Restoration Act]], saying it "appeared to me to be a license to harm others in the name of religion." However, Buttigieg supports punishing those (by supporting the proposed Federal Equality Act) who oppose homosexual relations. He also attacks evangelicals as hypocrites for supporting the Republican party (which he asserts) is contrary to Christian faith, while evidently expecting them to (hypocritically) support him.

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As a 2020 Democrat Presidential candidate, Buttigieg has little support among the black community, and was caught faking black support in South Carolina. This included Buttigieg using stock photos of ethnic minorities rather than actual supporters to illustrate policies related to minorities.<ref>Pollak, Joel B. (November 17, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2019/11/17/mayor-pete-buttigieg-under-fire-for-exaggerating-black-support/ Mayor Pete Buttigieg Under Fire for Exaggerating Black Support]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved November 17, 2019.</ref><ref>Pearce, Tim (November 17, 2019). [https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/it-was-alarming-black-leaders-claim-buttigieg-misled-voters-about-douglass-plan-for-black-america 'It was alarming': Black leaders claim Buttigieg misled voters about the 'Douglass Plan for Black America']. ''Washington Examiner''. Retrieved November 17, 2019.</ref><ref>Steinhauser, Paul; Shaw, Adam (November 18, 2019). [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/buttigieg-websites-on-black-america-plans-used-several-stock-photos-of-minorities Buttigieg websites on ‘Black America’ plans used stock photos of minorities]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved November 18, 2019.</ref>

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Hours after hosting a town hall meeting which interrupted his campaign schedule to address police violence toward the black community, six shootings occurred throughout the city leaving one dead and 10 injured.<ref>https://freebeacon.com/politics/six-shootings-in-south-bend-after-buttigieg-town-hall/</ref>

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Hours after hosting a town hall meeting which interrupted his campaign schedule to address police violence toward the black community, six shootings occurred throughout the city leaving one dead and 10 injured.<ref>https://freebeacon.com/politics/six-shootings-in-south-bend-after-buttigieg-town-hall/</ref>

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==2020 Presidential campaign==

:{{See also|Pete Buttigieg 2020 presidential campaign|Black problem|2020 Presidential election}}

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===Issues supported===

<center><big>{{days until|2029|12|31}} Days Until the Climate Apocalypse'''</big></center>

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None are his own. All are cut and pasted from the traditional radical leftwing playbook. Some of these are:<ref>[https://peteforamerica.com/issues] It’s time to reclaim the values that drive our policy decisions</ref>

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None are his own. All are cut and pasted from the traditional radical leftwing playbook. Some of these are:<ref>[https://peteforamerica.com/issues] It’s time to reclaim the values that drive our policy decisions</ref>

*Affordable abortion and the "right" to it for all women who choose to murder their child. Even to supporting freedom to abort a child during final three months of their pregnancies, at least if necessary due to medical reasons. (According to the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute, most abortions that take place after 20 weeks are performed for reasons other than the health of the mother or child.<ref>[https://www.nationalreview.com/news/buttigieg-defends-womens-right-to-third-trimester-abortions-who-gets-to-draw-the-line] Buttigieg Defends Women’s Right to Third-Trimester Abortions: ‘Who Gets to Draw The Line?’</ref> And the total number of late-term abortions is more than seven times the combined deaths from mass shootings in America since 1966.<ref>[https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/19/buttigiegs-third-trimester-abortion-mass-shootings] Buttigieg’s '1%' Of Third Trimester Abortions In A Year Is Seven Times More Than All Mass Shooting Deaths Since 1966</ref>)

*Abolishing the death penalty. End mandatory minimum sentences for certain offenses. Eliminate the private prison industry.

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*Working with "religious leaders, tech companies, and other influencers to reduce hate and extremism in our homeland, ... groups that use forms of domestic extremism."

*Growing national service programs to foster unified community and tackle "critical national and global challenges" from "climate adaptation to supporting disinvested American communities and neighborhoods", etc.

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*Universal health care: promoted as "Medicare for All Who Want It."

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*Universal health care: promoted as "Medicare for All Who Want It."

*Reparations policies for Black Americans and closing the racial wealth gap "income disparity").

*Education: advocates zero tuition for middle-income families at public college; free public tuition affordable for lower-income students, combined with a large increase in Pell Grants that provide for basic living expenses.

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*Funding national investment in affordable housing construction. Ending homelessness for families with children.

*Paycheck Fairness Act: forcing hire companies to reveal who and what they pay based on gender, and to pay, and promote women fairly.

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*Raising the minimum wage to $15 and strengthen overtime protections. Paid family and medical leave. Extend pay and benefit protections to uncovered workers. Invest in high-quality child care and early childhood learning programs (which could foster homosexual indoctrination).

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*Raising the minimum wage to $15 and strengthen overtime protections. Paid family and medical leave. Extend pay and benefit protections to uncovered workers. Invest in high-quality child care and early childhood learning programs (which could foster homosexual indoctrination).

*Giving labor unions "a powerful seat at the table."

*"Climate Change:" treating "Climate security" as a life and death issue for our generation.

* Implementing "a Green New Deal with all available tools including a carbon tax-and-dividend for Americans, and major direct investment to build a 100% clean energy society." Includes, "Decarbonize transportation and industry; Commit to the Paris Climate Agreement and collaborate with other countries to increase all our goals; ... Convene state and local leaders for an agreement on community-driven carbon reduction; ... Prepare our military and disaster response agencies for the security threats of climate change."

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*Foreign policy, "reinventing institutions of international engagement to address 21st century challenges, ... fundamentally rethink our foreign policy." Includes making climate security as a key basis for diplomacy.

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*Foreign policy, "reinventing institutions of international engagement to address 21st century challenges, ... fundamentally rethink our foreign policy." Includes making climate security as a key basis for diplomacy.

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*Comprehensive immigration reform.

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*Comprehensive immigration reform.

*Automatic voter registration. Voting rights for the formerly incarcerated. Expand early voting.

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* Replacing the Electoral College with a national popular vote.

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* Replacing the Electoral College with a national popular vote.

*Overturning Citizens United and Buckley ''v''. Valeo (which ruled that statutory limits on campaign spending were unconstitutional), if necessary by constitutional amendment.

*Advocates the District of Columbia having a House member and two Senators with voting power and Puerto Rico statehood, if its people want it, and immediate representation in the Electoral College.

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"Security" is a major theme of his position page, being mentioned 27 times, from Climate security to economic security to security from intimidation, while the effects of the Federal Equality Act would use intimidation via penalizing and prosecuting individuals or business such as in good conscience refuse to be complicit in affirming homosexual relations, imposing economic sanctions or worse on such.<ref>[https://www.realclearreligion.org/articles/2019/05/16/the_equality_act_will_hurt_religious_freedom_110219.html ] The Equality Act Will Harm Religious Freedom</ref> Such attacks on the security of those of religious conscience has been seen under the implementation of the European Union equality law.<ref>[http://www.equineteurope.org/IMG/pdf/Religion_and_Belief_Report_merged_.pdf] Equality Law in Practice</ref>

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Buttigieg, an intellectual lightweight, believes that being unconcerned about God's creation "is a sin" when discussing greenhouse gases, ~~however~~ Buttigieg believes that being unconcerned about God's creation ''is not a sin'' when discussing babies in the womb.<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2019/09/12/peter-buttigieg-loves-gods-creation-rainbow-not-baby/</ref>

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Buttigieg, an intellectual lightweight, believes that being unconcerned about God's creation "is a sin" when discussing greenhouse gases; however, Buttigieg believes that being unconcerned about God's creation ''is not a sin'' when discussing babies in the womb.<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2019/09/12/peter-buttigieg-loves-gods-creation-rainbow-not-baby/</ref>

===Destruction of campaign finance reports===

After the racial police chief firing scandal and abortionist protected by Buttigieg with 2,200 baby corpses in his home, the St. Joseph County clerk’s office overseeing South Bend elections shredded Buttigieg’s campaign disclosure reports from his 2011 first run for mayor.<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2019/09/23/exclusive-who-shredded-buttigiegs-campaign-records-and-why/</ref>

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===African American support===

[[File:Bootyjudge panderig.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Mayor Pete indulges in a vulgar racial stereotype to pander for support.<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/06/twitter-mocks-buttigieg-for-pandering-to-voters-by-drinking-in-public-out-of-a-paper-bag/</ref>]]

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Former [[Obama]] [[Barack Hussein Obama 2008 Presidential campaign|2008 Presidential campaign]] manager [[David Axelrod]] tweeted after Buttigieg's announcement to run: {{quotebox|“Crowd seems very large, very impressive but also very [[white]] — an obstacle he will have to overcome. And by obstacle I mean deficiency.}}

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His overwhelmingly white crowds were especially noticeable during his four March 23 events in [[South Carolina]], an early primary state where 28 percent of the population, but 55 percent of the Democratic electorate, is Black. Buttigieg polled stronger among voters who are white, earn more than $100,000 a year, are college-educated and self-identify as ~~“liberal”~~ or ~~“very~~ liberal.” When asked in a private meeting about his support from African-American leaders in South Bend, the mayor couldn't think of one person. Rep. [[Marcia Fudge]] (D-OH), the former chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, said "I don't know of one black person out of Indiana that supports him." Fudge said he depicts a sense of ~~“arrogance”~~ and ~~“entitlement~~.”<ref>https://www.thedailybeast.com/pete-buttigieg-has-a-black-problem-top-african-american-leaders-say-he-is-naive-on-race?source=twitter&via=desktop</ref>

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His overwhelmingly white crowds were especially noticeable during his four March 23 events in [[South Carolina]], an early primary state where 28 percent of the population, but 55 percent of the Democratic electorate, is Black. Buttigieg polled stronger among voters who are white, earn more than $100,000 a year, are college-educated and self-identify as "liberal" or "very liberal." When asked in a private meeting about his support from African-American leaders in South Bend, the mayor couldn't think of one person. Rep. [[Marcia Fudge]] (D-OH), the former chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, said "I don't know of one black person out of Indiana that supports him." Fudge said he depicts a sense of "arrogance" and "entitlement."<ref>https://www.thedailybeast.com/pete-buttigieg-has-a-black-problem-top-african-american-leaders-say-he-is-naive-on-race?source=twitter&via=desktop</ref>

In [[New Hampshire]] Buttigieg threw [[Obama]] under the bus.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyI136o93kc Pete Buttigieg Says That The Economy Wasn’t “Working For Most Of Us” Under President Obama], youtube.</ref> Early on "Diversity" meant "gay," not "black." As Buttigieg surpassed [[Kamala Harris]] in the polls after the Third pre-Primary Debate moving into the #4 slot, he suddenly became ashamed of his gayness.<ref>https://www.theblaze.com/news/pete-buttigieg-says-hes-steering-clear-of-lgbt-media</ref>

====South Bend civil unrest====

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[[File:Pete-Buttigieg-Confronted-Over-Police-Shooting (2).jpg|right|350px|thumb|Buttedgedge reads a prepared statement to Black Lives Matter. In what can only be described as a "Sister Souljah moment",<ref>https://politicaldictionary.com/words/sister-souljah-moment/</ref> Buttigieg told the protesters "I'm not asking for your vote."]]

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[[File:Pete-Buttigieg-Confronted-Over-Police-Shooting (2).jpg|right|350px|thumb|Buttedgedge reads a prepared statement to Black Lives Matter. In what can only be described as a "Sister Souljah moment,"<ref>https://politicaldictionary.com/words/sister-souljah-moment/</ref> Buttigieg told the protesters "I'm not asking for your vote."]]

Buttigieg left off the campaign trail to deal with a police shooting. A police officer defended himself from an attack by a man wielding an 8-inch hunting knife. Increased violence occurred after he held a contentious town hall meeting and called the entire police department "racist."<ref>https://ijr.com/cop-calls-out-buttigieg-for-politicizing-officer-involved-shooting/</ref> Hours later police were called to a mass shooting where ten people were injured, and one was killed. After the shooting, so many people showed up at South Bend's Memorial Hospital to check on the injured that the hospital went on lockdown. Police were called in to manage the crowd. At the same time, police responded to five other shootings, including one where a witness said the shooter was targeting police. City police had to call in County police for assistance.<ref>https://freebeacon.com/politics/south-bend-police-call-county-for-backup-after-increased-violence/</ref>

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After the violence, the police union protested Buttigieg's characterization of the entire department as racist. In a scripted [[Iowa]] event to alleviate Buttigieg's race problems, a man shouted, {{quotebox|"Just tell the black people of South Bend to stop committing crime and doing ~~drugs”~~}} to which Buttigieg recited the canned response, {{quotebox|~~“The~~ fact that a black person is four times as likely as a white person to be incarcerated for the exact same crime is evidence of systemic racism. Racism makes it harder for good police officers to do their job too.”<ref>https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1146874406876176385</ref>}}

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After the violence, the police union protested Buttigieg's characterization of the entire department as racist. In a scripted [[Iowa]] event to alleviate Buttigieg's race problems, a man shouted, {{quotebox|"Just tell the black people of South Bend to stop committing crime and doing drugs"}} to which Buttigieg recited the canned response, {{quotebox|"The fact that a black person is four times as likely as a white person to be incarcerated for the exact same crime is evidence of systemic racism. Racism makes it harder for good police officers to do their job too."<ref>https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1146874406876176385</ref>}}

Realizing the mistake he made while drawing national attention at the same time, Buttigieg sent a dozen [[pizza]]s to the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP). The police union was not amused. A spokesperson said, "Our officers are brave men and women who put their life on the line for our community each day. We ask that instead of delivering pizzas, the mayor deliver some respect for what police do—and hold the politics."<ref>https://freebeacon.com/politics/fraternal-order-of-police-to-buttigieg-we-want-apologies-not-pizza/</ref>

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[[File:Biden and Buttigieg having a moment.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Biden and Buttigieg having a moment.]]

''The New York Times'' reported:

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{{quotebox|Many of the 24 uncommitted black voters in the groups, men and women of ages 25 to 65, were deeply uncomfortable discussing Mr. ~~Buttigieg’s~~ sexual orientation, the memo said, adding that ~~“they~~ felt the mayor was ~~‘flaunting’~~ his sexuality by the very mention of having a husband.”...most party leaders and voters agreed that being a married gay man would cause some discomfort with religious or [[conservative]] black Democrats....black Democrats are a focal point because they were critical to Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and others winning the party nomination in recent years.

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{{quotebox|Many of the 24 uncommitted black voters in the groups, men and women of ages 25 to 65, were deeply uncomfortable discussing Mr. Buttigieg's sexual orientation, the memo said, adding that "they felt the mayor was 'flaunting' his sexuality by the very mention of having a husband."...most party leaders and voters agreed that being a married gay man would cause some discomfort with religious or [[conservative]] black Democrats....black Democrats are a focal point because they were critical to Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and others winning the party nomination in recent years.

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~~“The~~ biggest issue for him is he’s married to a man,” said Phyllis Harris-Drakeford, the Democratic chairwoman of Kershaw County, S.C. “I have no problem with that: You love who you want to love and you have the freedom in this country to do that. But in [[the South]] in particular, that’s not well favored.”<ref>https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2019/10/pete-buttigieg-courts-black-voters-sexuality-hurdle/</ref>}}

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"The biggest issue for him is he’s married to a man," said Phyllis Harris-Drakeford, the Democratic chairwoman of Kershaw County, S.C. "I have no problem with that: You love who you want to love and you have the freedom in this country to do that. But in [[the South]] in particular, that’s not well-favored."<ref>https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2019/10/pete-buttigieg-courts-black-voters-sexuality-hurdle/</ref>}}

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Blacks, who believe in God, family, and community in that order - things that are anathema and inimical to mainstream liberalism - are the moderate voice of the Democrat party.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/24/opinion/2020-progressive-candidates.html</ref>

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Blacks, who believe in God, family, and community in that order – things that are anathema and inimical to mainstream liberalism – are the moderate voice of the Democrat party.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/24/opinion/2020-progressive-candidates.html</ref>

African-Americans have been shown to be a socially conservative voting group that will prove difficult for Buttigieg to make inroads with, despite the candidate’s slew of policy proposals aimed at winning them over. "Conventional wisdom suggests that as the primary moves south that the candidates will be faced with more African-American voters who tend to be more socially conservative," said Jacob Neiheisel, a political science professor at the University of Buffalo. Neiheisel said that African-Americans are largely [[evangelical]] despite being predominantly Democrat which can be a problem for a homosexual candidate such as Buttigieg to gain traction among these voters.<ref>https://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/article236516903.html</ref>

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Clay Middleton is a South Carolina Democratic National Committee member advising New Jersey Senator Cory Booker. Middleton told the State newspaper that he was unsurprised by the Buttigieg campaign’s findings in the South Carolina focus group. "I've been a black guy all my life in the South and it is one of those things. African-Americans, when it comes to certain things, are very conservative," Middleton told the paper. ~~“If~~ you needed a focus group to tell you that, ok.”<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/28/will-pete-buttigiegs-sexuality-be-a-problem-for-him-in-southern-primaries/</ref>

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Clay Middleton is a South Carolina Democratic National Committee member advising New Jersey Senator Cory Booker. Middleton told the State newspaper that he was unsurprised by the Buttigieg campaign’s findings in the South Carolina focus group. "I've been a black guy all my life in the South and it is one of those things. African-Americans, when it comes to certain things, are very conservative," Middleton told the paper. "If you needed a focus group to tell you that, ok."<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/28/will-pete-buttigiegs-sexuality-be-a-problem-for-him-in-southern-primaries/</ref>

====South Carolina====

In South Carolina where support for Joe Biden was strong and Buttigieg weak, Buttigieg released an op-ed claiming more than 400 South Carolinians had endorsed his “Douglass Plan for Black America.” ” The three black politicians listed at the top of his press release, Columbia City Councilwoman Tameika Devine, Baptist pastor and state Rep. Ivory Thigpen, and Johnnie Cordero, chair of the South Carolina Black Caucus, never endorsed the plan. 40 percent of the endorsement names were white people. The press release on his plan read:

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:''~~“There~~ is one presidential candidate who has proven to have intentional policies designed to make a difference in the Black experience, and ~~that’s~~ Pete Buttigieg. We are over 400 South Carolinians, including business owners, pastors, community leaders, and students. Together, we endorse his Douglass Plan for Black America, the most comprehensive roadmap for tackling systemic racism offered by a 2020 presidential candidate.”''

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:''"There is one presidential candidate who has proven to have intentional policies designed to make a difference in the Black experience, and that's Pete Buttigieg. We are over 400 South Carolinians, including business owners, pastors, community leaders, and students. Together, we endorse his Douglass Plan for Black America, the most comprehensive roadmap for tackling systemic racism offered by a 2020 presidential candidate."''

''The Intercept'' found none of these politicians endorsed Buttigieg, or his plan, which includes financial reparations for slavery more than a century after the fact and decriminalizing drugs.

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A lawyer for the [[racist]] Democratic governor of Virginia, [[Ralph Northam]], hosted a fundraiser for Buttigieg.<ref>https://freebeacon.com/politics/northam-lawyer-to-host-buttigieg-fundraiser/</ref>

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===Campaign and position developments===

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*In a new advertisement available December 2, Buttigieg once again abused the Bible as being in support of his planned policies, stating “In our White House, you won’t have to shake your head and ask yourself, ‘Whatever happened to I was hungry and you fed me, I was a stranger and you welcomed me.” However, as one commenter expressed, texts such as this are not speaking about wealthy leaders, who, rather than using their own wealth (or much of it) to help the poor, instead take the money of those who earned it in order to "buy" votes of those in whom they inculcated the demonic "victim-entitlement mentality, which they appeal to. And that contrary to the charge of liberals, evangelicals have been and are at the forefront (possible the foremost) providers of humanitarian aid thru private charity.<ref>http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3797876/posts#34 [Pro-Abortion Pete Buttigieg Quotes Jesus Christ In First SC TV Ad Of His Campaign]</ref><ref>Olsen,Andrew (May 2016) [https://gordonconwell.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2019/04/USMissionsSurvey_FINALReport.pdf Evangelicals and International Aid Insights from a landscape survey of U.S. churches] Gordon Conwell. Retrieved 12/04/19</ref>

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*In a new advertisement available December 2, Buttigieg once again abused the Bible as being in support of his planned policies, stating “In our White House, you won’t have to shake your head and ask yourself, ‘Whatever happened to I was hungry and you fed me, I was a stranger and you welcomed me.” However, as one commenter expressed, texts such as this are not speaking about wealthy leaders, who, rather than using their own wealth (or much of it) to help the poor, instead take the money of those who earned it in order to "buy" votes of those in whom they inculcated the demonic "victim-entitlement mentality, which they appeal to. And that contrary to the charge of liberals, evangelicals have been and are at the forefront (possible the foremost) providers of humanitarian aid thru private charity.<ref>http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3797876/posts#34 [Pro-Abortion Pete Buttigieg Quotes Jesus Christ In First SC TV Ad Of His Campaign]</ref><ref>Olsen, Andrew (May 2016) [https://gordonconwell.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2019/04/USMissionsSurvey_FINALReport.pdf Evangelicals and International Aid Insights from a landscape survey of U.S. churches] Gordon Conwell. Retrieved 12/04/19</ref>

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*In early December Buttigieg also promised easier access to abortion (under the rubric of "reproductive care") for women in the military, under the premise that easier access to abortion is necessary to overcome one of the ~~“barriers~~ to women’s success in the armed forces," thereby inferring to women that part of being a "success" is killing your very own child, and not just enemy soldiers.<ref>Nancy Flanders (December 2, 2019) [https://www.liveaction.org/news/military-women-abortion-soldiers-pete-buttigieg Military women are expected to be ‘good soldiers’ and have abortions] LIVE ACTION NEWS Retrieved 12/04/19</ref>

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*In early December Buttigieg also promised easier access to abortion (under the rubric of "reproductive care") for women in the military, under the premise that easier access to abortion is necessary to overcome one of the "barriers to women’s success in the armed forces," thereby inferring to women that part of being a "success" is killing your very own child, and not just enemy soldiers.<ref>Nancy Flanders (December 2, 2019). [https://www.liveaction.org/news/military-women-abortion-soldiers-pete-buttigieg Military women are expected to be ‘good soldiers’ and have abortions] LIVE ACTION NEWS Retrieved 12/04/19</ref>

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*On December 2, the Republican National Committee Research Team published a video clip of a video Buttigieg telling a women in Spanish that under his proposed "Medicare for All" government health plan, the opportunity to buy this subsidized plan would be for everyone regardless of their immigration status.<ref>[https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/12/02/in-spanish-mayor-pete-buttigieg-promises-government-health-care-for-illegal-immigrants/ Mayor Pete Buttigieg on Sunday told a Hispanic worker in South Carolina that illegal immigrants would have access to government-funded health care if he was elected president.] Breitbart News, Retrieved 12/04/19</ref>

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*On December 2, the Republican National Committee Research Team published a video clip of a video Buttigieg telling a women in Spanish that under his proposed "Medicare for All" government health plan, the opportunity to buy this subsidized plan would be for everyone regardless of their immigration status.<ref>[https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/12/02/in-spanish-mayor-pete-buttigieg-promises-government-health-care-for-illegal-immigrants/ Mayor Pete Buttigieg on Sunday told a Hispanic worker in South Carolina that illegal immigrants would have access to government-funded health care if he was elected president.] Breitbart News, Retrieved 12/04/19</ref>

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*Buttigieg has proposed a aging and retirement plan, termed "Long-Term Care America." Under which spending plan benefits worth $90 per day would be provided for seniors over age 65 who require assistance for two or more activities of daily living, and would continue for as long they needed care. The plan would require massive amounts of new entitlement spending and is criticized as being akin to Title VIII of Obamacare, which established the "Community Living Assistance Services and Supports" (CLASS) program.

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*Buttigieg has proposed an aging and retirement plan, termed "Long-Term Care America." Under which spending plan benefits worth $90 per day would be provided for seniors over age 65 who require assistance for two or more activities of daily living, and would continue for as long they needed care. The plan would require massive amounts of new entitlement spending and is criticized as being akin to Title VIII of Obamacare, which established the "Community Living Assistance Services and Supports" (CLASS) program.

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Senator Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) referred to this as a “Ponzi scheme of the first order, and which the Obama administration had to shelve as unworkable as self-sustaining. Since this Obamacare plan only required individuals to pay into the CLASS program for five years to qualify for benefits, then actuaries believed that those enrolled would pay a few thousand dollars in premiums over five years, and then collect benefits totaling tens of thousands of dollars or more. While those enrolled in CLASS would have received a $50 per day benefit, under Buttigieg's plan recipients would receive a $90 daily benefit, 80 percent richer than that of the CLASS Act.

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Senator Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) referred to this as a “Ponzi scheme of the first order, and which the Obama administration had to shelve as unworkable as self-sustaining. Since this Obamacare plan only required individuals to pay into the CLASS program for five years to qualify for benefits, then actuaries believed that those enrolled would pay a few thousand dollars in premiums over five years, and then collect benefits totaling tens of thousands of dollars or more. While those enrolled in CLASS would have received a $50 per day benefit, under Buttigieg's plan recipients would receive a $90 daily benefit, 80 percent richer than that of the CLASS Act.

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In addition, it proposes an expansion of Social Security benefits funded by higher taxes on individuals earning above $250,000, which benefits include raising Medicaid’s asset limit for people who need long term care to $10,000 from about $2,000 in assets and increasing the income limit by 300 percent, or $2,313 per month for an individual in 2019. This government plan would also provide a new credit and provision for caregivers, including making it easier for individuals to hire neighbors or family members as caregivers.

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The plan would further institute new staffing requirements for nursing homes (requiring geriatric mental health expertise in hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, and Medicare Advantage networks), while increasing the minimum wage to $15 an hour. An enhanced version of the FAMILY Act is also envisioned which will create a national paid family and medical leave fund to care for family members by providing at least 12 weeks of paid family leave per year as a portable benefit.

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The plan would further institute new staffing requirements for nursing homes (requiring geriatric mental health expertise in hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, and Medicare Advantage networks) while increasing the minimum wage to $15 an hour. An enhanced version of the FAMILY Act is also envisioned which will create a national paid family and medical leave fund to care for family members by providing at least 12 weeks of paid family leave per year as a portable benefit.

More tax-funded provisions are proposed, all of which would significantly raise costs to the Medicaid program.<ref>Christopher Jacobs (December 5, 2019) [https://thefederalist.com/2019/12/05/ponzi-pete-buttigieg-proposes-even-more-unsustainable-federal-entitlements ‘Ponzi Pete’ Buttigieg Proposes Even More Unsustainable Federal Entitlements] The Federalist, Retrieved 12/06/19</ref><ref>[https://storage.googleapis.com/pfa-webapp/documents/PFA_Retirement_White_Paper.pdf Dignity and Security in Retirement] Retrieved 12/06/19</ref>

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*On December 2, the Washington Post’s awarded Buttigieg “Three Pinocchios” (the highest bluff rating on its Fact Checker scale) after finding Buttigieg's claim that he had “cut the black poverty rate by more than half” in South Bend, Ind., since he became mayor there in 2012, to be false. The Post said that the actual figure was a 6 percent reduction, rather more than half. What Buttigieg’s campaign left out was data from 2018, which shows the African-American poverty rate in South Bend rose 8 percent in one year, to 32 percent.<ref> Danielle Wallace (December 11) [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pete-buttigieg-three-pinocchios-cut-black-poverty-more-than-half-south-bend-indiana-washington-post Pete Buttigieg earns 3 'Pinocchios' over claim he slashed black poverty] Fox news. (Retrieved 12/12/19) </ref> The national poverty rate for African-Americans in 2018 was 21 percent,<ref>https://www.povertyusa.org/facts</ref> down from 26 percent in 2011.<ref>https://www.povertyusa.org/data/2011</ref> During the 2011-2017 period, the national poverty rate of black families decreased 6 percent, from 24 percent in 2011 to to 18 percent in 2017 (in round figures).<ref>https://www.statista.com/statistics/205059/percentage-of-poor-black-families--in-the-us/</ref>

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*On December 2, the Washington Post’s awarded Buttigieg “Three Pinocchios” (the highest bluff rating on its Fact Checker scale) after finding Buttigieg's claim that he had “cut the black poverty rate by more than half” in South Bend, Ind., since he became mayor there in 2012, to be false. The Post said that the actual figure was a 6 percent reduction, rather more than half. What Buttigieg’s campaign left out was data from 2018, which shows the African-American poverty rate in South Bend rose 8 percent in one year, to 32 percent.<ref> Danielle Wallace (December 11) [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pete-buttigieg-three-pinocchios-cut-black-poverty-more-than-half-south-bend-indiana-washington-post Pete Buttigieg earns 3 'Pinocchios' over claim he slashed black poverty] Fox news. (Retrieved 12/12/19) </ref> The national poverty rate for African-Americans in 2018 was 21 percent,<ref>https://www.povertyusa.org/facts</ref> down from 26 percent in 2011.<ref>https://www.povertyusa.org/data/2011</ref> During the 2011-2017 period, the national poverty rate of black families decreased 6 percent, from 24 percent in 2011 to 18 percent in 2017 (in round figures).<ref>https://www.statista.com/statistics/205059/percentage-of-poor-black-families--in-the-us/</ref>

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*On December 15, Buttigieg condemned a decision by the Hallmark Channel’s to pull four TV ads celebrating a lesbian couple kissing in response to a petition by a conservative group against it. In response, Buttigieg argued that being "family friendly means honoring love,"<ref>Rebecca Klar (12/15/19). [https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/474653-buttigieg-warns-against-censoring-difference-after-hallmark-channel-pulls] </ref> which is a recourse to the fallacious "love justifies sin" rational often used by other pro-~~homosexuals~~ advocates.<ref>[http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/Homosex_versus_the_Bible.html#Silence] Love Hermeneutic The Hill (Retrieved 12/15/19)</ref> On the same day Hallmark's parent company, Crown Media Family Networks, reversed the ban, stating they are "truly sorry for the hurt and disappointment this has ~~caused”~~ (while doing so to Christians), and promised to "look for ways to be more inclusive."<ref>Aris Folley (12/15/19). [https://thehill.com/homenews/media/474672-hallmark-channel-reverses-decision-to-pull-ads-featuring-same-sex-couples] The Hill (Retrieved 12/15/19)</ref></ref>

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*On December 15, Buttigieg condemned a decision by the Hallmark Channel’s to pull four TV ads celebrating a lesbian couple kissing in response to a petition by a conservative group against it. In response, Buttigieg argued that being "family friendly means honoring love,"<ref>Rebecca Klar (12/15/19). [https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/474653-buttigieg-warns-against-censoring-difference-after-hallmark-channel-pulls] </ref> which is a recourse to the fallacious "love justifies sin" rational often used by other pro-homosexual advocates.<ref>[http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/Homosex_versus_the_Bible.html#Silence] Love Hermeneutic The Hill (Retrieved 12/15/19)</ref> On the same day Hallmark's parent company, Crown Media Family Networks, reversed the ban, stating they are "truly sorry for the hurt and disappointment this has caused" (while doing so to Christians) and promised to "look for ways to be more inclusive."<ref>Aris Folley (12/15/19). [https://thehill.com/homenews/media/474672-hallmark-channel-reverses-decision-to-pull-ads-featuring-same-sex-couples] The Hill (Retrieved 12/15/19)</ref></ref>

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*On December 23 Buttigieg told the Des Moines Register that incarceration should not even be a response to illegal possession of any drug, yet also stating that those in the drug pushing business should be targeted by law enforcement. He characterized drug addicts as victims, nor criminals, for which he advocated rehabilitation and (more) federal money being spent toward that instead of being incarcerated for ~~crime~~. Buttigieg stated that he did not mean legalization of everything although he supported the legalization of marijuana.<ref>Pam Key, 25 Dec 2019. [https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/12/25/buttigieg-no-jail-time-for-possession-of-any-drug-including-meth-cocaine/ "Buttigieg: No Jail Time for Possession of Any Drug — Including Meth, Cocaine"] The Heritage Foundation (Retrieved 12/27/19)</ref>

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*On December 23 Buttigieg told the Des Moines Register that incarceration should not even be a response to illegal possession of any drug, yet also stating that those in the drug pushing business should be targeted by law enforcement. He characterized drug addicts as victims, nor criminals, for which he advocated rehabilitation and (more) federal money being spent toward that instead of being incarcerated for crimes. Buttigieg stated that he did not mean legalization of everything although he supported the legalization of marijuana.<ref>Pam Key, 25 Dec 2019. [https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/12/25/buttigieg-no-jail-time-for-possession-of-any-drug-including-meth-cocaine/ "Buttigieg: No Jail Time for Possession of Any Drug — Including Meth, Cocaine"] The Heritage Foundation (Retrieved 12/27/19)</ref>

Federal money for rehabilitation has been part of the Federal budget for many years. By 1991, Federal expenditures for drug treatment had risen by 341 percent since 1986 -- 20 percent faster than the total drug budget, 30 percent faster than spending for drug law enforcement and 700 percent faster than overall federal spending.<ref>Jeffrey Eisenach and Andrew Cowin, May 17, 1991. [https://thecrimereport.org/2018/06/08/why-arent-we-spending-more-on-prisoner-education "The Case Against More Funds for Drug Treatment"] The Heritage Foundation (Retrieved 12/27/19)</ref> In 2015, Federal Block Grant funding for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (one program among others addressing this need) was $1.819 billion. This goes toward supporting employment, housing, rehabilitation services, crisis stabilization, peer specialist and consumer-directed services, wraparound services for children and families, jail diversion programs, and services for special populations. <ref>Shelley Starkey, June 27, 2019. [https://www.thenationalcouncil.org/topics/federal-budget/ "Federal Budget for Mental Health and Addiction Treatment"] National Council for Behavioral Health (Retrieved 12/27/19)</ref> Funding for this administration for fiscal year 2020 was $5.9 billion. In addition to other programs, block grant funding for Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment was $1.8 billion, and $1.5 billion for State Opioid Response (SOR) Grants.<ref>Malka Berro, December 20, 2019. [https://www.thenationalcouncil.org/capitol-connector/2019/12/congress-passes-fy-2020-funding/ "Congress Passes FY 2020 Funding"] National Council for Behavioral Health (Retrieved 12/27/19)</ref>

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This is not the first time liberals have sought to misappropriate the authority of Scripture with this analogy, and which is criticized on factual grounds since Christ certainly did not come to earth as a refugee fleeing Heaven, thus not being born a refugee, while Joseph was a self-employed carpenter, a legal tax-paying citizen of Rome and there is no reason to think that he was particularly poor, nor did he flee to Egypt for economic reasons. Instead, Joseph fled to Egypt, which had been folded into the Roman Empire, to escape Herod who would have murdered Christ, like as abortionists do to innocents under their local jurisdiction. Thus if anything, Joseph’s flight to Egypt would be more akin to fleeing mandated abortion in California for Texas rather than fleeing South America to the U.S. for government economic assistance, which is what Buttigieg promotes.<ref> Sam Dorman December 27, 2019. [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pete-buttigieg-backlash-refugee-jesus "Pete Buttigieg faces criticism for calling Jesus a refugee"] FOX News Network (Retrieved 12/28/19)</ref><ref> Brandon Morse, October 22, 2018. [https://www.redstate.com/brandon_morse/2018/10/22/no-jesus-not-refugee-illegal-immigrant/] RedState.com/Salem Media (Retrieved 12/28/19)</ref><ref>Daniel1212, 12/28/19 [http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3803612/posts?page=65#65] Freerepublic.com (Retrieved 12/28/19)</ref>

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This is not the first time liberals have sought to misappropriate the authority of Scripture with this analogy, and which is criticized on factual grounds since Christ certainly did not come to earth as a refugee fleeing Heaven, thus not being born a refugee, while Joseph was a self-employed carpenter, a legal tax-paying citizen of Rome and there is no reason to think that he was particularly poor, nor did he flee to Egypt for economic reasons. Instead, Joseph fled to Egypt, which had been folded into the Roman Empire, to escape Herod who would have murdered Christ, like as abortionists do to innocents under their local jurisdiction. Thus if anything, Joseph’s flight to Egypt would be more akin to fleeing mandated abortion in California for Texas rather than fleeing South America to the U.S. for government economic assistance, which is what Buttigieg promotes.<ref>Sam Dorman December 27, 2019. [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pete-buttigieg-backlash-refugee-jesus "Pete Buttigieg faces criticism for calling Jesus a refugee"] FOX News Network (Retrieved 12/28/19)</ref><ref> Brandon Morse, October 22, 2018. [https://www.redstate.com/brandon_morse/2018/10/22/no-jesus-not-refugee-illegal-immigrant/] RedState.com/Salem Media (Retrieved 12/28/19)</ref><ref>Daniel1212, 12/28/19 [http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3803612/posts?page=65#65] Freerepublic.com (Retrieved 12/28/19)</ref>

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Meanwhile, it was under then-President Obama that only 53 Syrian Christian refugees of Syria’s civil war were admitted into the United States over the course of 5 years, due to American reliance on a United Nations refugee-resettlement program that disproportionately excluded them.<ref>Nina Shea, November 2, 2015. [https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/11/christian-refugees-syria-religious-minorities-united-states-resettlement-policy/ "The State Department Turns Its Back on Syrian Christians and Other Non-Muslim Refugees"] National Review (Retrieved 12/28/19)</ref>

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Meanwhile, it was under then-President Obama that only 53 Syrian Christian refugees of Syria’s civil war were admitted into the United States over the course of 5 years, due to American reliance on a United Nations refugee-resettlement program that disproportionately excluded them.<ref>Nina Shea, November 2, 2015. [https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/11/christian-refugees-syria-religious-minorities-united-states-resettlement-policy/ "The State Department Turns Its Back on Syrian Christians and Other Non-Muslim Refugees"] National Review (Retrieved 12/28/19)</ref>

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For a lot of people, ~~“‘normal’~~ has been a real problem for a very long time, and I think the failures of the Obama era help explain how we got Trump.<ref>https://archive.is/5vXG0</ref>}}

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The news set [[Twitter]] afire. Within hours the ''LA Times'' censored itself and altered the quote. Buttigieg benefited from his white privilege when the racist reporting at [[MSNBC]] consistently snubbed [[Andrew Yang]] to help Buttigieg surge in early primary polls of [[Iowa]].<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2019/11/18/msnbc-excludes-andrew-yang-from-media-coverage-despite-polling-above-other-candidates/</ref>

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==="Progressive" faith and social gospel===

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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> ]]

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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>]]

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. 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><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>

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Studying at Oxford (England) on a Rhodes scholarship, Buttigieg stated the program was "decidedly atheistic" and which he found convincing in many ways. However, wanting some sort of spirituality, he attended services at Anglican Christ Church, which was across from the college. After moving back to South Bend, Indiana, he began began attending services at the Cathedral of St. James, which is part of the Episcopal church (the American branch of Anglicanism), and which has become known as a forerunner of "progressive" (meaning unbiblical) theology, electing the adulterer and sodomite Gene Robinson its first openly homosexual bishop and voting to allow same-sex marriages in 2003. At that local church Buttigieg "married" his boyfriend, Chasten Glezman, in June 2018, and the readings included including a passage from the Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage and an excerpt from Jesus' Sermon on the Mount<ref>[https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/16/politics/pete-buttigieg-religious-journey/index.html How Pete Buttigieg found God (Daniel Burke, CNN, August 17, 2019)]</ref> (which was another case of Buttigieg misappropriating Scripture in order to justify what it condemns).

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Consistent with the liberal social gospel, which gives a low priority to the teachings of Christ (while marginalizing the teachings of Paul etc. which were inspired by the Spirit of Christ) on personal moral purity in preference to acts such as feeding the (genuinely) needy, Buttigieg criticized right-wing Christians for "saying so much about what Christ said so little about, and so little about what he said so much about." Which, like [[Barack Obama]], indicates ignorance of the totality of what Christ taught and how He did so, and the context of His social actions and the principals of sound interpretation,<ref>[https://www.frc.org/issueanalysis/leviticus-jesus-and-homosexuality-some-thoughts-on-honest-interpretation] Leviticus, Jesus, and Homosexuality: Some Thoughts on Honest Interpretation</ref> as well as the evidence that the evangelical church encourages sacrificial giving to help others, and that evangelicals engage in has been very substantially engaged in providing humanitarian aid,<ref>[http://www.gordonconwell.edu/ockenga/research/documents/USMissionsSurvey_FINALReport.pdf] US Missions Survey FINAL Report</ref> as their members give more per person than those of other major groups.<ref>John and Sylvia Ronsvalle, The State of Church Giving through 2004: Will We Will? 16th ed. (Champaign, Ill.: Empty Tomb, 2006),12</ref>

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Consistent with the liberal social gospel, which gives a low priority to the teachings of Christ (while marginalizing the teachings of Paul etc. which were inspired by the Spirit of Christ) on personal moral purity in preference to acts such as feeding the (genuinely) needy, Buttigieg criticized right-wing Christians for "saying so much about what Christ said so little about, and so little about what he said so much about." Which, like [[Barack Obama]], indicates ignorance of the totality of what Christ taught and how He did so, and the context of His social actions and the principals of sound interpretation,<ref>[https://www.frc.org/issueanalysis/leviticus-jesus-and-homosexuality-some-thoughts-on-honest-interpretation] Leviticus, Jesus, and Homosexuality: Some Thoughts on Honest Interpretation</ref> as well as the evidence that the evangelical church encourages sacrificial giving to help others, and that evangelicals engage in has been very substantially engaged in providing humanitarian aid,<ref>[http://www.gordonconwell.edu/ockenga/research/documents/USMissionsSurvey_FINALReport.pdf] US Missions Survey FINAL Report</ref> as their members give more per person than those of other major groups.<ref>John and Sylvia Ronsvalle, The State of Church Giving through 2004: Will We Will? 16th ed. (Champaign, Ill.: Empty Tomb, 2006), 12</ref>

While Democrats typically only give perfunctory mention of God, Buttigieg openly invokes his liberal faith and advocates doing so, stating, "we need to not be afraid to invoke arguments that are convincing on why Christian faith is going to point you in a [[progressive]] direction. ... When I think about where most of Scripture points me, it is toward defending the poor, and the immigrant, and the stranger, and the prisoner, and the outcast...So I think it's really important to carry a message (to the public)…"<ref>[https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/04/03/mayor-pete-buttigieg-christian-right-2020-democratic-primary-trump-column/3342767002] Mayor Pete Buttigieg's countercultural approach to Christianity is what America needs now</ref> While Buttigieg likes to sound the trumpet in his alms-giving, he ignores the core teaching of salvation from sin and homosexuality: {{quotebox|Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened....For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.<ref>[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+1%3A26-27&version=KJV Romans 1:21, 26-27]</ref>}} Scripture is unambiguous. God is not confused. Buttigieg's homosexuality is a consequence of [[idolatry]] and rejection of God.

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Buttigieg proudly attributes this sinful desire of his fallen fleshly nature to God, stating that he wished that, "the Mike Pences of the world" would understand that if they have a problem with who he is then their quarrel is with God.<ref>[https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/10/mike-pence-says-pete-buttigieg-knows-better-after-criticism.html] Mike Pence, facing criticism from 2020 Democratic hopeful Pete Buttigieg over his record on gay rights, says South Bend mayor ‘knows better</ref><ref>[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/franklin-graham-says-pete-buttigieg-should-repent-for-being-gay] Franklin Graham says Pete Buttigieg should repent for being gay</ref>

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Cities across America which have adopted open bathroom policies, an issue dear to his heart, have been plagued with dirty hypodermic needles.<ref>https://columbialawreview.org/content/safer-bathrooms-in-syringe-exchange-programs-injecting-progress-into-the-harm-reduction-movement/</ref> Buttigieg supports federal legislation banning discrimination against homosexuals, and therefore opposes the Trump administration's ban on transgender people serving in the military, while supporting gender reassignment surgery for transgender people in prison.<ref>[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/politics/what-does-pete-buttigieg-believe-where-the-candidate-stands-on-7-issues] What does Pete Buttigieg believe? Where the candidate stands on 7 issues</ref>

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Cities across America which have adopted open bathroom policies, an issue dear to his heart, have been plagued with dirty hypodermic needles.<ref>https://columbialawreview.org/content/safer-bathrooms-in-syringe-exchange-programs-injecting-progress-into-the-harm-reduction-movement/</ref> Buttigieg supports federal legislation banning discrimination against homosexuals, and therefore opposes the Trump administration's ban on transgender people serving in the military, while supporting gender reassignment surgery for transgender people in prison.<ref>[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/politics/what-does-pete-buttigieg-believe-where-the-candidate-stands-on-7-issues] What does Pete Buttigieg believe? Where the candidate stands on 7 issues</ref>

Buttigieg and his "husband" offer no [[hope]] to parents, young girls, and women as [[role model]]s for [[heterosexual]]ity. Buttigieg's homosexuality and support for the [[homosexual agenda]] propelled him into the upper ranks of [[Democrat]] candidates, and the [[mainstream media]] has visibly displayed its adoration for him while he rose in the polls<ref>Spiering, Charlie (April 16, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/16/mayor-pete-buttigieg-rising-in-democrat-primary/ Mayor Pete Buttigieg Rising in Democrat Primary]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved April 16, 2019.</ref> (Liberals/leftists love Buttigieg's attacks on Vice President [[Mike Pence]] who supports [[religious liberty]]).<ref>Jasper, William F. (April 7, 2019). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/31946-pete-buttigieg-for-president-the-dem-s-newest-media-anointed-phenom Pete Buttigieg for President? The Dem’s Newest Media-anointed "Phenom"]. ''The New American''. Retrieved April 9, 2019. See also:

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Buttigieg's father, a [[communist]], Joseph Buttigieg, joined Notre Dame's faculty as a professor of modern European literature and literary theory in 1980.<ref>Larsen, Emily; Simonson, Joseph (April 2, 2019). [https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/pete-buttigiegs-father-was-a-marxist-professor-who-lauded-the-communist-manifesto Pete Buttigieg's father was a Marxist professor who lauded the Communist Manifesto]. ''Washington Examiner''. Retrieved April 2, 2019.</ref> An only child, Buttigieg had always been close with his father, who passed away in 2019. The senior Buttigieg had a profound impact on "Mayor Pete." <ref>https://www.marieclaire.com/politics/a26867874/joseph-buttigieg-pete-buttigieg-father/</ref> Joseph Buttigieg supported a revised version of Marxism that dispensed with some of the more doctrinaire theories of Marx and Engel's, yet he was clearly Marxist. “Equity, environmental consciousness, and racial justice are surely some of the ingredients of a healthy Marxism" he wrote. According to Paul Kengor, Grove City College professor and expert in communism and progressivism, Buttigieg was among a group of leftist professors who focused on injecting Marxism into the wider culture.<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/pete-buttigiegs-father-was-a-marxist-professor-who-lauded-the-communist-manifesto</ref> The senior Buttigieg wrote that he found Marx's description of emancipation as the eradication of humans' alienation from each other and their alienation from their own productive and creative activity to be "compelling." And that to reach this ''kind of freedom'', "the many forms of oppressive structural relations must be confronted and altered and, just as important, the constitution of social agents cannot be limited to the liberal language of rights."<ref>Is the struggle for human rights a struggle for emancipation? Neve Gordon, Jacinda Swanson, & Joseph A. Buttigieg, Rethinking Marxism: A Journal of Economics, Culture & Society, 12 January 2013 [http://www.bgu.ac.il/~ngordon/Marx%20Article.pdf]</ref>

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In high school, Peter Buttigieg began thinking about running for political office, and he became senior-class president, valedictorian, and president of the school's chapter of Amnesty International, where he objected to the group's focus on "Ay-rabs." Later, Buttigieg wrote an essay commending the courage of then-congressman [[Bernie Sanders]]. Being invited to the JFK library, he met Senator [[Ted Kennedy]] who offered him an internship. Buttigieg was accepted to Harvard University where he became the student president at Harvard's Institute of Politics. The (very liberal) ''New Yorker'' described this role as being “sought by the most ambitious of the exceptionally ambitious." Buttigieg succeeded retired senator David Pryor (one of Bill Clinton's key political mentors) whom he thanked for providing “the political education we really needed." Buttigieg wrote a regular column for the ''Harvard Crimson'', in one of which raved about rap star [[Eminem]] who was ‘dumping it on White America,’ building a new narrative — aggressively American, abused, angry and alarming.

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In high school, Peter Buttigieg began thinking about running for political office, and he became senior-class president, valedictorian, and president of the school's chapter of Amnesty International, where he objected to the group's focus on "Ay-rabs." Later, Buttigieg wrote an essay commending the courage of then-congressman [[Bernie Sanders]]. Being invited to the JFK library, he met Senator [[Ted Kennedy]] who offered him an internship. Buttigieg was accepted to Harvard University where he became the student president at Harvard's Institute of Politics. The (very liberal) ''New Yorker'' described this role as being “sought by the most ambitious of the exceptionally ambitious." Buttigieg succeeded retired senator David Pryor (one of Bill Clinton's key political mentors) whom he thanked for providing “the political education we really needed." Buttigieg wrote a regular column for the ''Harvard Crimson'', in one of which raved about rap star [[Eminem]] who was ‘dumping it on White America,’ building a new narrative — aggressively American, abused, angry and alarming.

Buttigieg obtained a [[Rhodes Scholarship]] which enabled him to enter Oxford, where he says he found that supply and demand cannot be expected to deliver fair prices or efficient outcomes in many situations. Buttigieg graduated with the highest grade possible.

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Buttigieg participated in protests against the war in Iraq while he was at Harvard. Buttigieg stated that he decided to sign up for the Navy Reserves in 2009 after being sent to knock on doors while canvassing in Iowa for Barack Obama in 2008 and many of the people who answered were in the armed forces. Buttigieg also thinks that America may have never had gone to war in Iraq if more elected officials had served or had family members in the military.<ref>''The Washington Post'', March 10, 2014 [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/03/10/the-most-interesting-mayor-youve-never-heard-of/ The most interesting mayor you’ve never heard of]</ref>

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Buttigieg began serving in the U.S. Navy Reserve in 2009 and was deployed to Afghanistan in 2014<ref>https://www.axios.com/pete-buttigieg-2020-presidential-election-factsheet-indiana-mayor-020c5afc-c8a2-4691-940c-b271e63306b1.html</ref> for 6 months, having volunteered for an overseas deployment as an intelligence officer and having reached the rank of lieutenant. Buttigieg had previously become acquainted with Afghanistan as a civilian advisor at McKinsey & Company of Chicago and preferred that location as an overseas assignment. Buttigieg served in the Afghanistan Threat Finance Cell (ATFC) in Kabul, placing him in “an imminent danger pay area” from late March to mid-September 2014. He was part of a unit assigned to identify and disrupt terrorist finance networks, mainly a desk job, but he wrote that while he expected to spend the bulk of his time as an intelligence analyst “behind a sophisticated computer terminal in a secure area," he states that he went “outside the wire” 119 times leaving the relative safety of the base as a vehicle commander on convoy security detail in dangerous parts of Kabul as an armed driver. However, apparently, he did not engage in direct combat, which would have earned him a Navy combat ribbon. Military officials state that Buttigieg received standard medals and decorations for a member who served overseas in the war on terror, such as citations for rifle and pistol marksmanship, the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, the Overseas Service Ribbon, and the Afghanistan Campaign Medal for service in a combat zone.<ref>The Hill, News Communications, Inc.. 05/05/19 [https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/442082-documents-provide-glimpse-into-buttigiegs-military-service Documents provide glimpse into Buttigieg's military service]</ref>

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Buttigieg began serving in the U.S. Navy Reserve in 2009 and was deployed to Afghanistan in 2014<ref>https://www.axios.com/pete-buttigieg-2020-presidential-election-factsheet-indiana-mayor-020c5afc-c8a2-4691-940c-b271e63306b1.html</ref> for 6 months, having volunteered for an overseas deployment as an intelligence officer and having reached the rank of lieutenant. Buttigieg had previously become acquainted with Afghanistan as a civilian advisor at McKinsey & Company of Chicago and preferred that location as an overseas assignment. Buttigieg served in the Afghanistan Threat Finance Cell (ATFC) in Kabul, placing him in “an imminent danger pay area” from late March to mid-September 2014. He was part of a unit assigned to identify and disrupt terrorist finance networks, mainly a desk job, but he wrote that while he expected to spend the bulk of his time as an intelligence analyst “behind a sophisticated computer terminal in a secure area," he states that he went “outside the wire” 119 times leaving the relative safety of the base as a vehicle commander on convoy security detail in dangerous parts of Kabul as an armed driver. However, apparently, he did not engage in direct combat, which would have earned him a Navy combat ribbon. Military officials state that Buttigieg received standard medals and decorations for a member who served overseas in the war on terror, such as citations for rifle and pistol marksmanship, the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, the Overseas Service Ribbon, and the Afghanistan Campaign Medal for service in a combat zone.<ref>The Hill, News Communications, Inc.. 05/05/19 [https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/442082-documents-provide-glimpse-into-buttigiegs-military-service Documents provide glimpse into Buttigieg's military service]</ref>

Buttigieg invokes his military service at nearly every campaign stop, using it as both a sword and a shield in his campaigning.<ref>CNN, Turner Broadcasting System, May 17, 2019 [https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/17/politics/buttigieg-military-service-2020/index.html Buttigieg wields his military credentials: 'It's not like I killed Bin Laden,' but it was dangerous]</ref> In 2017, he suggested he would not have joined the military if it were politically damaging.<ref>Lim, Naomi (November 18, 2019). [https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/pete-buttigieg-once-said-there-is-no-way-to-know-whether-hed-have-joined-the-navy-reserve-if-it-were-damaging-politically Pete Buttigieg once said 'there is no way to know' whether he'd have joined the Navy Reserve if it were 'damaging politically']. ''Washington Examiner''. Retrieved November 18, 2019.</ref>

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====Race relations====

Buttigieg is an amateur white race-hustler by Democrat standards. Buttigieg apologized for having once thought, believed, and expressed "all lives matter"<ref>https://defconnews.com/2019/04/05/pete-buttigieg-apologizes-for-saying-all-lives-matter/</ref>

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and criticized his supporters for being too white.<ref>Pollak, Joel B. (April 15, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/15/pete-buttigieg-knocks-own-supporters-for-being-too-white/ Pete Buttigieg Knocks Own Supporters for Being Too White]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved April 16, 2019.</ref>

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and criticized his supporters for being too white.<ref>Pollak, Joel B. (April 15, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/15/pete-buttigieg-knocks-own-supporters-for-being-too-white/ Pete Buttigieg Knocks Own Supporters for Being Too White]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved April 16, 2019.</ref>

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''[[The New York Times]]'' reported that one of Buttigieg's first actions as mayor was to fire and demote the city's popular Black police chief.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/19/us/politics/buttigieg-black-police-chief-fired.html</ref> The Obama [[FBI]] under its disgraced director [[James Comey]] was investigating the city's first [[Black]] police chief for allegedly illegal wiretapping. No federal or state charges were ever filed against the chief. Buttigieg told [[CNN]], "This wasn’t about the nuances of the Wiretap Act, this was about whether people could trust their police department.” Upon firing, the former chief sued Buttigieg for [[racial]] [[discrimination]] and [[civil rights]] violations,<ref>https://www.law360.com/cases/51a8de786f823f7110000001</ref> costing the city in excess of $2 million.<ref>https://www.southbendtribune.com/news/politics/buttigieg-record-with-black-south-bend-residents-under-spotlight-he/article_802c5c8b-80e0-507e-aa6c-684c46db9b87.html</ref> When confronted by [[Black Lives Matter]] protesters, Buttigieg read from a prepared script saying, "I'm not asking for your vote."<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjT5MlOoUUI&feature=youtu.be</ref><ref>https://youtu.be/ZhlJntrzrD8</ref>

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''[[The New York Times]]'' reported that one of Buttigieg's first actions as mayor was to fire and demote the city's popular Black police chief.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/19/us/politics/buttigieg-black-police-chief-fired.html</ref> The Obama [[FBI]] under its disgraced director [[James Comey]] was investigating the city's first [[Black]] police chief for allegedly illegal wiretapping. No federal or state charges were ever filed against the chief. Buttigieg told [[CNN]], "This wasn’t about the nuances of the Wiretap Act, this was about whether people could trust their police department.” Upon firing, the former chief sued Buttigieg for [[racial]] [[discrimination]] and [[civil rights]] violations,<ref>https://www.law360.com/cases/51a8de786f823f7110000001</ref> costing the city in excess of $2 million.<ref>https://www.southbendtribune.com/news/politics/buttigieg-record-with-black-south-bend-residents-under-spotlight-he/article_802c5c8b-80e0-507e-aa6c-684c46db9b87.html</ref> When confronted by [[Black Lives Matter]] protesters, Buttigieg read from a prepared script saying, "I'm not asking for your vote."<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjT5MlOoUUI&feature=youtu.be</ref><ref>https://youtu.be/ZhlJntrzrD8</ref>

The chief's lawyer does not believe Buttigieg's explanation and told the ''New York Times'' that he asked a friend in the U.S. Attorney's office whether Buttigieg's explanation added up. The U.S Attorney's office responded that Buttigieg's explanation "is so contrary to the protocols of U.S. Attorneys’ offices. We never would condition a determination on prosecuting or not prosecuting based on an employment decision."<ref>https://heavy.com/news/2019/04/darryl-boykins/</ref> Buttigieg's truth-telling surrounding the events has been called into question.<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2019/06/26/pete-buttigieg-telling-truth-fired-towns-first-black-police-chief/</ref>

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Buttigieg called for the eradication of racial bias in the South Bend police force,<ref>[https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/04/south-bend-police-pete-buttigieg-lives-matter-race-boykins/586513] Pete Buttigieg and the Police Department: Race Record Under Scrutiny</ref> while being accused of a lack of diversity in his administration<ref>[https://www.southbendtribune.com/news/opinion/viewpoint/viewpoint-diversity-has-fallen-in-mayor-pete-buttigieg-s-administration/article_3dbd0df8-385b-5e0a-9486-d561e1e57ba6.html Diversity has fallen in Mayor Pete Buttigieg's administration]</ref> as well as in his presidential campaign.<ref>[https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/15/politics/pete-buttigieg-diversity-2020-campaign-events/index.html Buttigieg: I'm 'conscious' of lack of diversity at events]</ref>

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Buttigieg called for the eradication of racial bias in the South Bend police force,<ref>[https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/04/south-bend-police-pete-buttigieg-lives-matter-race-boykins/586513] Pete Buttigieg and the Police Department: Race Record Under Scrutiny</ref> while being accused of a lack of diversity in his administration<ref>[https://www.southbendtribune.com/news/opinion/viewpoint/viewpoint-diversity-has-fallen-in-mayor-pete-buttigieg-s-administration/article_3dbd0df8-385b-5e0a-9486-d561e1e57ba6.html Diversity has fallen in Mayor Pete Buttigieg's administration]</ref> as well as in his presidential campaign.<ref>[https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/15/politics/pete-buttigieg-diversity-2020-campaign-events/index.html Buttigieg: I'm 'conscious' of lack of diversity at events]</ref>

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Buttigieg rejected calls for the resignation of the [[racist]] Democrat governor of Virginia [[Ralph Northam]]. Buttigieg said, {{quotebox|"I don’t mean to congratulate ourselves because we’ve got our issues to work through too, but I would point to the contrast between how the Democratic Party handled allegations of sexual mistreatment among people in our ranks … and what's going on on the other side of the aisle. Or when it comes to these disturbing racial relations. The difference between the conversation the Democratic Party is having about the governor of Virginia and the conversation, if any, that the Republican Party is having about people like [[Steve King]]. How much will we tolerate? That is one of the things that ultimately gets resolved in the conduct of a primary process."<ref>https://www.c-span.org/video/?457645-1/south-bend-mayor-pete-buttigieg-meets-iowa-voters</ref>}} Buttigieg's riff was a blatantly false statement. King was immediately removed by Republicans from all House committee assignments when King was quoted out of context by the ''New York Times'', whereas Rep. [[Ilhan Omar]] was never censored or disciplined for a recurring pattern of [[anti-Semitic]] statements. Buttigieg justified Gov. Northam remaining in office rather than resign to allow the [[Black]] Lieutenant Governor to assume office, suggesting Northam could primaried out in 2021.<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/pete-buttigieg-claims-gop-tolerates-racist-behavior-and-sexual-assault</ref> Northam has since donated over $85,000 to fellow Democrats and remains in office.<ref>https://freebeacon.com/politics/northam-pac-funnels-85000-to-democratic-candidates/</ref> A lawyer for Northam hosted a fundraiser for Buttigieg in June 2019.<ref>https://freebeacon.com/politics/northam-lawyer-to-host-buttigieg-fundraiser/</ref>

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Buttigieg rejected calls for the resignation of the [[racist]] Democrat governor of Virginia [[Ralph Northam]]. Buttigieg said, {{quotebox|"I don’t mean to congratulate ourselves because we’ve got our issues to work through too, but I would point to the contrast between how the Democratic Party handled allegations of sexual mistreatment among people in our ranks … and what's going on on the other side of the aisle. Or when it comes to these disturbing racial relations. The difference between the conversation the Democratic Party is having about the governor of Virginia and the conversation, if any, that the Republican Party is having about people like [[Steve King]]. How much will we tolerate? That is one of the things that ultimately gets resolved in the conduct of a primary process."<ref>https://www.c-span.org/video/?457645-1/south-bend-mayor-pete-buttigieg-meets-iowa-voters</ref>}} Buttigieg's riff was a blatantly false statement. King was immediately removed by Republicans from all House committee assignments when King was quoted out of context by the ''New York Times'', whereas Rep. [[Ilhan Omar]] was never censored or disciplined for a recurring pattern of [[anti-Semitic]] statements. Buttigieg justified Gov. Northam remaining in office rather than resign to allow the [[Black]] Lieutenant Governor to assume office, suggesting Northam could primaried out in 2021.<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/pete-buttigieg-claims-gop-tolerates-racist-behavior-and-sexual-assault</ref> Northam has since donated over $85,000 to fellow Democrats and remains in office.<ref>https://freebeacon.com/politics/northam-pac-funnels-85000-to-democratic-candidates/</ref> A lawyer for Northam hosted a fundraiser for Buttigieg in June 2019.<ref>https://freebeacon.com/politics/northam-lawyer-to-host-buttigieg-fundraiser/</ref>

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~~Buttigieg’s~~ initiative to address 1,000 vacant and abandoned homes in 1,000 days with aggressive code enforcement disproportionately displaced poor black people. Common Council member Regina Williams-Preston, who is running for mayor in 2019, told several [[mainstream media]] outlets ~~“people~~ lost homes,” primarily poor blacks, because of the initiative. Buttigieg's focus on downtown development projects did little to help struggling residents in low-income neighborhoods.

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Buttigieg's initiative to address 1,000 vacant and abandoned homes in 1,000 days with aggressive code enforcement disproportionately displaced poor black people. Common Council member Regina Williams-Preston, who is running for mayor in 2019, told several [[mainstream media]] outlets "people lost homes," primarily poor blacks, because of the initiative. Buttigieg's focus on downtown development projects did little to help struggling residents in low-income neighborhoods.

Buttigieg has accused Black Christians of [[homophobia]].<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/07/pete-buttigieg-policies-lgbtq/</ref> More than any other ethnic demographic group, Blacks have historically opposed [[same sex marriage]] and hijacking of the [[civil rights]] movement by the [[gay pride]] movement,<ref>https://boycewatkins.wordpress.com/2011/04/03/poll-60-of-african-americans-do-not-support-gay-marriage/</ref><ref>https://hotair.com/archives/2015/06/08/holdouts-blacks-oppose-gay-marriage-4151-in-new-pew-poll/</ref> which for Buttigieg is a main drawing card. When Buttigieg launched his presidential campaign on a Sunday, many [[African-American]]s weren't asked and didn't attend because they were at [[church]].

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Klopfer was forcibly retired in 2015, and his clinic closed, after it was found he performed abortions on at least two girls under 13 years of age and violated state law by not reporting it. ''The New York Times'' reported that Klopfer was found guilty of five of the nine charges he faced by the Indiana Medical Licensing Board, including failing to report an abortion he performed on a 13-year-old, failing to exercise reasonable care, and violating documentation and notice requirements.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/14/us/dr-ulrich-klopfer-fetal-remains.html</ref> The ''Fort Wayne Journal Gazette'' reported many of the board members were shocked by Klopfer’s attitude regarding the case of a 10-year-old girl who had been raped by her uncle. The doctor failed to notify the police even after learning that the parents were going to keep the matter secret. One board member stated that what bothered her most was Klopfer’s striking lack of medical judgment and competence.

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When Klopfer died in 2019, his family found 2,246 corpses of dead babies preserved in jars in his home.

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When Klopfer died in 2019, his family found 2,246 corpses of dead babies preserved in jars in his home.

After Klopfer's forced retirement, a Texas based franchise chain with locations in five states moved into South Bend. Whole Woman's Health committed dozens of health and safety violations in three Texas facilities between 2011 and 2017, including the lack of a registered nurse on staff, inadequate sterilization of equipment, and missing [[fentanyl]] stock. The Indiana State Department of Health denied Whole Woman's Health of South Bend's license application due to a lack of "reputable and responsible character."

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