The claim that “God made me this way” is a common slogan heard from defenders of homosexuality. And that’s the thing I wish the Mike Pences of the world would understand-that if you’ve got a problem with who I am, your problem is not with me.
If me being gay was a choice, it was a choice that was made far, far above my pay grade. Vice President, it has moved me closer to God. My marriage to Chasten has made me a better man and yes, Mr. Insisting that his homosexual behavior and legal marriage to another man do not contradict his beliefs as an Episcopalian Christian, Buttigieg said: In a speech at a gay-advocacy fundraiser Sunday, Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg defended his homosexuality in a remark aimed at vice president Mike Pence, a proponent of traditional marriage.