Mayor Pete’s Woke Intolerance | Nic Rowan | First Things

In 2015, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg voiced a moral disagreement with Mike Pence, then governor of Indiana.Just days before Pence signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act—which would allow business owners to deny services based on religious reservations—Buttigieg told local reporters it would “create problems” for his city’s LGBTQ community. “This paves the way for discrimination,” Buttigieg said. He also claimed the bill would be unnecessary in a society in which an increasing percentage of the population supported same-sex marriage: “I’m not aware of a lot of same-sex couples in South Bend desperately trying to get homophobic bakers to supply their weddings.”

It was nothing new from Buttigieg, who had butted heads with Pence for years over the issue. But since the two both consider themselves devout Christians, and Christians are commanded to love their neighbors, they made public efforts to maintain a friendly relationship. When Buttigieg came out as gay just months after Pence passed RFRA, the governor praised the mayor’s character. “I hold Mayor Buttigieg in the highest personal regard,” Pence told a South Bend TV station. “I see him as a dedicated public servant and a patriot.

”Buttigieg, too, was always cordial, and repeatedly reached out to the governor. On one notable occasion, Buttigieg presented Pence with a local pride t-shirt reading “I (heart) SB.” And he frequently declared that his disagreements with Pence didn’t mean they couldn’t pursue a common good together.“Politics aside, we have to be partners when it comes to creating jobs here,” Buttigieg said when Pence visited him on Easter Monday 2013. “He’s the governor of Indiana. South Bend is in Indiana, so our interests are very much aligned when it comes to South Bend’s future.”

But that partnership is ended now that Buttigieg is running for president. . . .

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