South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg Peter (Pete) Paul ButtigiegHarris spikes in Google search after Biden confrontation Dem candidates rip Trump on China ahead of crucial trade summit Buttigieg addresses South Bend police shooting in debate MORE invoked religion while discussing the treatment of migrants at the border during Thursday night's Democratic presidential primary debate.
Buttigieg said that Republicans have "lost all claim to ever use religious language again,” pointing to policies like family separations and the treatment of migrant children crossing the border.
“The Republican Party likes to cloak itself in their language of religion,” said Buttigieg, who has been outspoken on the campaign trail about his Episcopalian faith.
“We should call out hypocrisy when we see it," the mayor continued. "For a party that associates itself with Christianity to say that it is OK to suggest that God would smile on the division of families at the hands of federal agents, that God would condone putting children in cages has lost all claim to ever use religious language again.”
He also said that the criminalization of crossing the border without documentation is "the basis of family separation.”
Buttigieg was among 20 Democratic presidential candidates to take the debate stage in Miami this week.
moxievernors on June 28th, 2019 at 02:44 UTC »
Kerrey had a throwaway line in one of his debates against W. (Paraphrased, since I don't remember the quote).
"They talk about family values, but they don't value families.".
Instead of becoming a key phrase used to differentiate the policies of Dems and GOP as it should have been, it remained an orphan, and was never used again.
wakanttakas on June 28th, 2019 at 02:28 UTC »
Family separation and border issues aren’t even the half of it. The religious right has lost all credibility by worshiping a lying, utterly self-centered adulterer and rapist.
mixplate on June 28th, 2019 at 02:18 UTC »
I hope he stays in the race until the very end so that he can keep hammering home this issue.