Openly Gay, Openly Christian Buttigieg Challenges the Religious Right

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From the article:

As someone whose identity includes serious Christianity and serious progressive political stances, I’ve always been wary of trying to counter the Christian right with some sort of Christian left, in a Bible-quotation–loaded competition to claim God for a party or ideology...

Still, it’s important now and then to challenge the conservative assertion — often shared in ignorance by secular media — that religiosity, and particularly Christian religiosity, dictates reactionary positions on culture and politics. So I found it interesting and provocative that 2020 presidential candidate Cory Booker goes out of his way to talk about his own religious faith....

As E.J. Dionne observes, there is another 2020 Democratic presidential candidate who’s conspicuously talking about his faith, the fast-rising dark horse Pete Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, Indiana....

To read more:

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/03/openly-gay-christian-buttigieg-challenges-religious-right.html

The author states that the secular media takes this position out of ignorance. I think that it is deliberate. The US media is predominantly conservative, predominantly right wing friendly.