Pete Buttigieg–Man of Faith
Here’s a pretty-how-de-do! Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend and leading candidate for the Democratic nomination, wonders if someone like Donald Trump--so wealthy, so unashamed of his wealth--could possibly be Christian. He has also attacked Mike Pence for his concentration on sexual issues.
Like many people who read the headlines, I wondered what religion could inform the mind of a man who attacks one politician for being rich and another for being moralistic, when he pretends to have married another man. (I forget which he pretends to be the wife and which the husband.) He can’t be a Muslim, and Hinduism is fairly straight on marriage, so what?
It turns out he is described as a “devout Episcoplian.”
Thank goodness. For a minute I thought he was pretending to be some kind of Christian.
His parents were professors at Notre Dame (surprise, surprise,) and his father was a founding member of the International Gramsci Society.
This is a fitting piece to read on the same day Mr. Navrazov writes about clowns and the circus.
After dining out among Episcopalians in Williamstown, MA, a high-church friend said to me, “You know what’s wrong with Episcopalians? They don’t believe anything. Utter the most basic theological proposition, and they look at you as if you were a freak.”
Dr. Brownlow,
Your comment reminded me of a long ago comic quote about about high church
Episcopalians—Mort Sahl, I think—he said: “Oh, they pray to whom it may concern!”
My father, when he was dragging us as occasional conformists to the Episcopal Church on Sullivan’s Island, would repeat the old quip: “You know, Episcopalians can believe anything. Isn’t it funny how few of them do.”
Sadly, back then in the 60’s and down to the 90’s, the Episcopalians one met in South Carolina were at least as faithful as their Catholic and Baptist counterparts. Charleston churches were mostly low church and most of the priests I heard had no fear of preaching traditional morality.