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Line 148: − − ===Appeal to faith and social gospel=== − 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> − − Later, as a student at [[Harvard University]], Buttigieg heard the famed homosexual preacher and proxy servant of the devil, Peter Gomes, expound on so-called "progressive Christianity," and as a consequence Buttigieg attests, "I began to understand the range of Christian traditions beyond the Catholicism I was steeped in at South Bend," and wrote columns in the Harvard Crimson that exhorted liberals to seize the moral high ground (as perversely defined by him) from conservatives. However, as R. Albert Mohler (president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky) states, "Progressive Christianity necessitates replacing Christianity with an entirely new religion." "Mayor Pete is just the latest prophet of this new religion. He won't be the last. − − 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). − − 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 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> and encourages sacrificial giving to help others, which evangelicals engage in more of than other major groups.<ref>John Ronsvalle 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. − − Buttigieg opposed The Religious Freedom Restoration Act saying it "appeared to me to be a license to harm others in the name of religion...making it easier to harm people in its name,"<ref>[https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/02/opinions/buttigieg-and-religion-qa-beck/index.html] Pete Buttigieg on faith, his marriage and Mike Pence</ref> implicitly endorsing [[Christian persecution]]. In Buttigieg's world Christians who hold to Biblical morality can be impoverished and treated as outcasts or otherwise subject to harm (a word Buttigieg often uses for justification of his stance against conservatives), such as when refusing to be complicit in celebrating immoral causes, as in the case of Masterpiece Cakeshop.<ref>[https://erlc.com/resource-library/articles/when-opposition-to-religious-liberty-becomes-silly-petty-and-vindictive] When opposition to religious liberty becomes silly, petty, and vindictive</ref> − − Illustrating a primary reason why "right-wing Christians" seem so vocal about moral issues (since cultural Marxist immorality is foisted upon society and Biblical morality is attacked), Buttigieg's attack on conservative evangelicals has provoked many responses from them. Based upon the logic that the importance of an issue is based upon how much Christ said about it, and the premise that explicit statements only seem to count, evangelical blogger Erick Erickson surmises that perhaps Mayor Pete Buttigieg thinks that Jesus would be okay with abortion and bestiality.<ref>[https://theresurgent.com/2019/04/09/pete-buttigiegs-unprovoked-attacks-on-mike-pence-suggest-he-really-is-intolerant-and-okay-with-christian-persecution Pete Buttigieg’s Unprovoked Attacks on Mike Pence Suggest He Really Is Intolerant and Okay With Christian Persecution]</ref> − − Erickson also pointed out that while Buttigieg holds himself out as a more tolerant Christian than Vice President Mike Pence, yet the later has never once said anything negative about Buttigieg being gay, while Buttigieg called Pence a fanatic and ridiculed Pence's faith. Erickson thus sees this as suggesting that he "would be O.K. with using the government to persecute Christians," for already "Buttigieg has come out in favor of the government shutting down Christian businesses if they do not bow at the altar of gay marriage."<ref>[https://theresurgent.com/2019/04/09/pete-buttigiegs-unprovoked-attacks-on-mike-pence-suggest-he-really-is-intolerant-and-okay-with-christian-persecution] ete Buttigieg’s Unprovoked Attacks on Mike Pence Suggest He Really Is Intolerant and Okay With Christian Persecution</ref> − − Despite claiming to oppose using religion as a "cudgel," said in his very next sentence that if God were a member of a political party, it would not be the GOP.<ref>Multiple references: − *Wulfsohn, Joseph A. (May 7, 2019). [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/buttigieg-says-religion-shouldnt-be-a-cudgel-then-suggests-god-wouldnt-be-a-republican Buttigieg says religion shouldn't be a 'cudgel,' then suggests God wouldn't be a Republican]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved May 7, 2019. − *Nolte, John (May 8, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/08/nolte-mean-little-mayor-pete-buttigieg-is-terrible-at-christianity/ Nolte: Mean Little Mayor Pete Buttigieg Is Terrible at Christianity]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved May 8, 2019.</ref>
Restructure section. Belief preceeds homo-activisim
Gramsci's theory of "cultural hegemony" states that the ruling capitalist "oppressor" class uses cultural institutions, such as "traditional marriage," to maintain power. The "oppressors" develop a "hegemonic culture" using [[ideology]] unlike Socialists who use [[violence]], economic force, and coercion. "Hegemonic culture" propagates its own values and norms so that they become "[[common sense]]" values and thus maintain the [[status quo]]. According to [[Wikipedia]], this "Hegemonic power is therefore used to maintain consent to the capitalist order, rather than coercive power using force" as Marxism does "to maintain order. This cultural hegemony is produced and reproduced" by the dominant Christian oppressor class "through the institutions that form the superstructure."
Gramsci's theory of "cultural hegemony" states that the ruling capitalist "oppressor" class uses cultural institutions, such as "traditional marriage," to maintain power. The "oppressors" develop a "hegemonic culture" using [[ideology]] unlike Socialists who use [[violence]], economic force, and coercion. "Hegemonic culture" propagates its own values and norms so that they become "[[common sense]]" values and thus maintain the [[status quo]]. According to [[Wikipedia]], this "Hegemonic power is therefore used to maintain consent to the capitalist order, rather than coercive power using force" as Marxism does "to maintain order. This cultural hegemony is produced and reproduced" by the dominant Christian oppressor class "through the institutions that form the superstructure."
==="Progressive" faith and social gospel===
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>
Later, as a student at [[Harvard University]], Buttigieg heard the famed homosexual preacher and proxy servant of the devil, Peter Gomes, expound on so-called "progressive Christianity," and as a consequence Buttigieg attests, "I began to understand the range of Christian traditions beyond the Catholicism I was steeped in at South Bend," and wrote columns in the Harvard Crimson that exhorted liberals to seize the moral high ground (as perversely defined by him) from conservatives. However, as R. Albert Mohler (president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky) states, "Progressive Christianity necessitates replacing Christianity with an entirely new religion." "Mayor Pete is just the latest prophet of this new religion. He won't be the last.
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).
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 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> and encourages sacrificial giving to help others, which evangelicals engage in more of than other major groups.<ref>John Ronsvalle 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.
Buttigieg opposed The Religious Freedom Restoration Act saying it "appeared to me to be a license to harm others in the name of religion...making it easier to harm people in its name,"<ref>[https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/02/opinions/buttigieg-and-religion-qa-beck/index.html] Pete Buttigieg on faith, his marriage and Mike Pence</ref> implicitly endorsing [[Christian persecution]]. In Buttigieg's world Christians who hold to Biblical morality can be impoverished and treated as outcasts or otherwise subject to harm (a word Buttigieg often uses for justification of his stance against conservatives), such as when refusing to be complicit in celebrating immoral causes, as in the case of Masterpiece Cakeshop.<ref>[https://erlc.com/resource-library/articles/when-opposition-to-religious-liberty-becomes-silly-petty-and-vindictive] When opposition to religious liberty becomes silly, petty, and vindictive</ref>
Illustrating a primary reason why "right-wing Christians" seem so vocal about moral issues (since cultural Marxist immorality is foisted upon society and Biblical morality is attacked), Buttigieg's attack on conservative evangelicals has provoked many responses from them. Based upon the logic that the importance of an issue is based upon how much Christ said about it, and the premise that explicit statements only seem to count, evangelical blogger Erick Erickson surmises that perhaps Mayor Pete Buttigieg thinks that Jesus would be okay with abortion and bestiality.<ref>[https://theresurgent.com/2019/04/09/pete-buttigiegs-unprovoked-attacks-on-mike-pence-suggest-he-really-is-intolerant-and-okay-with-christian-persecution Pete Buttigieg’s Unprovoked Attacks on Mike Pence Suggest He Really Is Intolerant and Okay With Christian Persecution]</ref>
Erickson also pointed out that while Buttigieg holds himself out as a more tolerant Christian than Vice President Mike Pence, yet the later has never once said anything negative about Buttigieg being gay, while Buttigieg called Pence a fanatic and ridiculed Pence's faith. Erickson thus sees this as suggesting that he "would be O.K. with using the government to persecute Christians," for already "Buttigieg has come out in favor of the government shutting down Christian businesses if they do not bow at the altar of gay marriage."<ref>[https://theresurgent.com/2019/04/09/pete-buttigiegs-unprovoked-attacks-on-mike-pence-suggest-he-really-is-intolerant-and-okay-with-christian-persecution] ete Buttigieg’s Unprovoked Attacks on Mike Pence Suggest He Really Is Intolerant and Okay With Christian Persecution</ref>
Despite claiming to oppose using religion as a "cudgel," said in his very next sentence that if God were a member of a political party, it would not be the GOP.<ref>Multiple references:
*Wulfsohn, Joseph A. (May 7, 2019). [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/buttigieg-says-religion-shouldnt-be-a-cudgel-then-suggests-god-wouldnt-be-a-republican Buttigieg says religion shouldn't be a 'cudgel,' then suggests God wouldn't be a Republican]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved May 7, 2019.
*Nolte, John (May 8, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/08/nolte-mean-little-mayor-pete-buttigieg-is-terrible-at-christianity/ Nolte: Mean Little Mayor Pete Buttigieg Is Terrible at Christianity]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved May 8, 2019.</ref>
===Homosexual activism===
===Homosexual activism===
*Schlichter, Kurt (April 11, 2019). [https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2019/04/11/that-annoying-pete-buttigieg-guy-is-just-another-liberal-hack-n2544486 That Annoying Pete Buttigieg Guy Is Just Another Liberal Hack]. ''Townhall''. Retrieved April 11, 2019.
*Schlichter, Kurt (April 11, 2019). [https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2019/04/11/that-annoying-pete-buttigieg-guy-is-just-another-liberal-hack-n2544486 That Annoying Pete Buttigieg Guy Is Just Another Liberal Hack]. ''Townhall''. Retrieved April 11, 2019.
*Horowitz, David (April 30, 2019). [https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/sri-lanka-pete-buttigieg-and-the-lefts-escalating-war-against-christians Sri Lanka, Pete Buttigieg, and the left’s escalating war against Christians]. ''LifeSiteNews'' (from the ''American Thinker''). Retrieved May 1, 2019.</ref> Major homosexual political donors are financially backing his campaign.<ref>[https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/04/pete-buttigieg-gay-money-democratic-secret-weapon "I HAVE MAXED OUT TO PETE": GAY MONEY, DEMOCRATIC SECRET WEAPON, COMES OUT FOR BUTTIGIEG], Vanity Fair, 2019</ref>
*Horowitz, David (April 30, 2019). [https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/sri-lanka-pete-buttigieg-and-the-lefts-escalating-war-against-christians Sri Lanka, Pete Buttigieg, and the left’s escalating war against Christians]. ''LifeSiteNews'' (from the ''American Thinker''). Retrieved May 1, 2019.</ref> Major homosexual political donors are financially backing his campaign.<ref>[https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/04/pete-buttigieg-gay-money-democratic-secret-weapon "I HAVE MAXED OUT TO PETE": GAY MONEY, DEMOCRATIC SECRET WEAPON, COMES OUT FOR BUTTIGIEG], Vanity Fair, 2019</ref>
===Criticism===
===Criticism===