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At the annual white-tie Gridiron Dinner in Washington, D. For the record, Buttigieg was on paternity leave as a new father of twins and one was in the neonatal intensive care unit. Postpartum depression, a serious and often life-threatening illness, impacts millions of women annually. It nearly killed my own mother, as I tweeted in a comment that received 62, views.

If your grandchild was born prematurely and placed on a ventilator at two months old — their tiny fingers wrapped around yours as the monitors beep in the background — where would you be? Oence ever there were a moment of acute clarity that representation matters, this was it. A Black lesbian mother using her daily pulpit to call out the damaging rhetoric of a former vice-president.

The whole incident leaves us with, as they mike, a lot to unpack. Apart from the gross homophobia, Pence was stigmatizing fathers and sick mothers as malingerers. As native Indianans in state politics, the two have clashed before, with Buttigieg gay out Pence on his stances on bar freedom and LGBTQ rights.

Your quarrel, sir, is with my creator. As the first openly gay Cabinet member in U. I covered the election for several publications and wrote about Pence and that history and his support for conversion therapy while a member of Congress where he fought for funding for the widely discredited practice. Pence has taken direct action against LGBTQ people, like opposing and voting against federal hate crimes prevention laws because it would include queer and trans people.

Much of his rationale was predicated on religious freedom stances.

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Pence also was laser focused on the religious freedom issues that he and Buttigieg — a devout Christian — have sparred over. This is a key point as Pence moves forward on his current political tour where he is trying to divorce himself from the administration he was part of and party to for four years.

For example, if an employee keeps a Bible in his or her cubicle, if an employee displays a Bible verse on their desk, that employee could be claimed by a homosexual colleague to be creating a hostile work environment because the homosexual employee objects to passages in the Bible relating to homosexuality.

Pence also did terrible things to women as governor of Indiana, including signing a law in that mandated funerals for fetuses. It is unsurprising that Pence used women to attack a gay man. What Pence said at the Gridiron dinner is egregious. It is also consistent with who he is and his personal and ideological worldview.

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