Petet Buttigieg, Mayor of the home to the University of Notre Dame, one of the most prominent Catholic schools in the country and where his parents were professors, the 37-year-old Episcopalian did not grow up in a religious home. His interest in faith emerged at St. Joseph’s High School, when he was drawn to Catholic theology, and grew while he was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University. After graduating from a St. Joseph’s, Buttigieg went to Harvard, becomong Episcopalian and discovering his sexual attraction to other men, now as a “married” homosexual.
Buttigieg
stands as an icon of so much of what is deviant in the contemporary Church. Darren
Dochuk has said Buttigieg clearly endorses a progressive faith rooted in
Christian social gospel teachings, a movement that tied faith to action, which
many young people in both Protestant and Catholic churches will find appealing.
“I have doubts that his talk about God and social Christianity and his desire
to shift the religious politics of our day to the left will gain much traction
among a majority of white evangelicals and conservative Catholics,” said Dochuk,
citing opposition to Buttigieg’s abortion rights stance and the anti-LGBTQsentiments in those communities. “Whatever the case, I think he rightly senses
the need for Democrats to quit avoiding or dodging or minimizing the God factor
in American politics.” Reading Dochuk, one wonders exactly which “progressive
faith” it is that Mayor Pete endorses.
“Avoiding or dodging or minimizing the God factor in
American politics” -- This is something that I have never feared doing—hence this
piece. What differentiates Buttigieg from our present President in my view is the
mayor’s “abortion rights stance” and his LGBTQ feelings. For starters, Pope
Francis and the mayor our at odds on these two issues. When asked in a March 5, 2014 interview with Corriere
della Sera, “Many nations have regulated civil unions. Is it a path that the
Church can understand? But up to what point?” The Holy Father replied, "Marriage is between a man and a woman". Again Taking our cue from the Pope, on
abortion he has stated that “Abortion, Even of a Sick Fetus, Is Like Hiring a ‘Hitman’.”
In the end, Mayor
Pete’s biography gives evidence that his home life, parish life and education have failed him in not providing the spiritual
and theological preparation needed to deal with his homosexuality, which the
Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches is an
intrinsic disorder.
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