Pete Buttigieg slams Ted Cruz & other Texas Republicans for attacking his family

Former Mayor Pete Buttigieg speaking with attendees at the 2020 Iowa State Education Association (ISEA) Legislative Conference at the Sheraton West Des Moines Hotel in West Des Moines, Iowa.
Photo: Gage Skidmore – Wikimedia Commons

Out Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg called out Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and John Cornyn (R-TX) and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) for their attacks on LGBTQ rights, asking why they think they are qualified to judge and tear apart LGBTQ families and take trans kids away from their supportive parents when no one is attacking their families in the same way.

Buttigieg was taking part in the 2022 Texas Tribune Festival. Journalist Evan Smith interviewed Buttigieg for over an hour, mostly about transportation policy, but asked a question towards the end about how Buttigieg feels about Cruz’s and Cornyn’s stated opposition to the Respect for Marriage Act, which would protect federal same-sex marriage rights should the Supreme Court overturn its 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision.

Buttigieg started talking about how happy his family – his husband Chasten and their two kids – makes him, and said, “It’s puzzling to me that anybody would want to tear that up.”

“I’ve met both of your senators and your governor,” he told the Texan reporter. “I don’t know their spouses. I don’t really think about their marriages. But I can’t imagine a situation where I would attempt to undo one of their marriages. So what makes them think that they are fit to pronounce upon mine?”

Citing the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization – which ended the federal right to an abortion in the U.S. in overturning Roe v. Wade – he said that…

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