Todd also noted that he’d talked to black congressmen who said Buttigieg’s homosexuality could be a problem with segments of the African-American vote.
Buttigieg’s answers were respectful, thoughtful, and hopeful that he could work it out with black Democratic voters.
But the question remains: Why don’t those voters get called bigots?
It’s a rhetorical question, of course. We know why. Attacking Pence and the people he supposedly represents is good for fundraising and votes in Democratic primaries. Calling religious black voters bigots for having the same misgivings that some religious white voters have is political suicide.
The point here isn’t really about homosexuality or gay marriage — both settled issues legally and almost certainly politically. Nor do I really care about the hypocrisy of it all, as much as it may annoy me.
The way the media tends to handle culture-war controversies is deeply pernicious.
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