This just in: Mike Pence can dish it out, but he most definitely cannot take it.
In an interview with CNBC, Pence responded to Pete Buttigieg’s remarks about sexuality and faith, accusing the 2020 hopeful of attacking his faith for attention and saying he should “know better.”
Just to recap: While speaking at the Victory Fund’s LGBTQ brunch in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, Buttigieg said:
My marriage to Chasten has made me a better man and yes, Mr. Vice President, it has moved me closer to God. … If you have a problem with who I am, your problem is not with me. Your quarrel, sir, is with my creator.
“I worked very closely with Mayor Pete when I was governor of the state of Indiana,” Pence said yesterday. “We had a great working relationship. He said some things that are critical of my Christian faith and of me personally. He knows better. He knows me.”
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“I get it,” he continued. “They got 19 people running for president on that side in a party that’s sliding off to the left and they’re all competing with one another for how much more liberal they can be.”
Asked whether his position on marriage equality has evolved as public opinion on the issue has shifted, Pence replied: “My family and I have a view of marriage that’s informed by our faith.”
In other words: No.
Pence’s remarks came shortly after his homophobic wife Karen (a.k.a. Mother) appeared on Brian Kilmeade’s radio show yesterday morning to trash Pete Buttigieg for trashing her husband.
“I think in our country we need to understand you shouldn’t be attacked for what your religious beliefs are,” Karen quipped. “I think it’s helping Pete to get some notoriety by saying that about the vice president.”
As we noted yesterday, Mayor Pete already has plenty of notoriety, as evidenced by the $7 million he’s raised so far for his presidential campaign. He definitely doesn’t need Mike or Karen Pence‘s “help” with anything.
Buttigieg responded to Pence’s claims that they had “a great working relationship” in a tweet yesterday:
People will often be polite to you in person, while advancing policies that harm you and your family. You will be polite to them in turn, but you need not stand for such harms. Instead, you push back, honestly and emphatically. So it goes, in the public square.
— Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) April 9, 2019
Related: Karen Pence accused Pete Buttigieg of using her husband for attention. It didn’t go well for her.
DCguy
Racists and bigots want to BE racists and bigots, but want to play victim and cry if anybody points out their racism or bigotry.
It’s like a rapist in court saying the rape victim is the actual attacker because she identified him in a lineup.
youarederanged
Asking Queerty to silence others and take away their right to free speech is bigotry. So, should a bigot really be calling out other bigots? Seems you and Pence should be besties!
Goforit
youarederanged….. What on earth are you talking about? No where did DCguy say anything about asking “Queerty to silence others” or “take away their right to free speech”. You made that up in your own little deranged mind. The rest of us are quite capable of reading his comment and seeing through your lies. So sad that you have to try and get attention in such a feeble manner.
youarederanged
@Goforit
You’re either misinformed or just purposefully deceitful. Go look at his comments in other articles. DCguy has asked Queerty to silence others many, many times, and I’m not the only one who has pointed it out. While I’m glad you are capable of reading his singular comment here, you missed the point of my reply. It was a response to the overall practice of DCguy to ask for the silencing of others. Defend him all you want, but his pattern of calling for the silencing of others is deranged and creepy.
Gaymikey1960
I was born, raised, and still live in Indiana, I know Mike Pence to be a bigoted racist person! Back in 2014 or 2015 I remember how he and all of the Republicans bulldozed RFRA (religious freedom restoration act) through the Indiana Senate and signed it into law behind closed doors with no one in attendance but religious bigot leaders by his side, making it completely legal for religious bigoted business owners and people to discriminate against us LGBTQ Hoosiers! But we LGBTQ Hoosiers fought back strong and won, Pence then had to backstroke and amend the law to specifically add to the law that it was illigal to discriminate against the LGBTQ Hoosiers! Pete Buttigieg is totally and completely correct about Pence and his wife! Yes Pete does know better because he hit the nail right square on the head so he is not lying about them!
edc
All I can say is that this ahole is the biggest f….in d…khead going!
james7
I expect Trump to dump Pence when he runs for second term; or Pence will step down “to spend more time with his family” as they all say (those who are so busy separating families at the border). And I expect Trump will run a VP candidate selected to try and get women to vote Repubican. Someone like Niki Haley?
youarederanged
Shhh, don’t mention Nikki Haley. The deranged on here like to pretend she doesn’t exist. You know, the whole “Republicans hate minorities and women” line they spew. Her support from Republicans proves their narrative to be false so they’d rather ignore her.
DCguy
Awww, adorable, a Trump troll uses it’s accounts to try to deflect the thread about Mike Pence’s anti LGBT hate and bigotry onto a different topic.
Please tell the manager at your troll farm to put somebody smarter on these accounts.
youarederanged
@DCguy
I’ll let my manager know your concerns. And can you please tell the manager at your deranged haters-of-free-speech farm that you should be employee of the year!
Crystix
Bigoted “Christians” – The biggest snowflakes of all.
Franco
Interesting story. True too. Out one night in Naples, Fl with two beautiful female friends. One single, one married. My husband and I had gone out to dinner with them and wanted to go dancing. These two men approached the four of us and started making nice. Buying drinks, talking, etc. One looked an awful lot like pence but older and much more plump. He introduced himself as the V.P.’s brother. One of my friend’s took some photos of the group and messaged them to him. He later tried hitting on her but she was the married one and certainly wasn’t having any of it. Besides he was getting pretty sloppy and very pushy so we left. The next night we were all out having a nice dinner at a local restaurant and she starts getting texts from this guy trying to talk her into coming to his hotel to hook up. She made it clear that she was married and with her husband and friends but he wouldn’t take no for an answer. He continued to message her like a stalker. We all had a good laugh over this. It was not Pence so I certainly can’t blame him but it is interesting the “family values” doesn’t seem to run in the family. Perhaps rather than criticize gays Pence should sit down with his brother and have a long talk about the evils of adultery. I mean that is one of the Ten Commandments and to the best of my knowledge homosexuality is not. I just hate hypocrites.
Mayor Pete for president in 2020.
dsharpark
It’s amazing how some people attack others based on what they are (and cannot change)… but those people don’t believe they should be held accountable for what they believe (which they chose for themselves).