Buttigieg husband recites LGBTQ ‘pledge’ with gay youth camp in viral video

U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s husband, Chasten, leads kids in a modified pledge of allegiance to the rainbow flag at what he described as a “not-so-typical homosexual camp” in a viral social media video.

On Wednesday evening, the Log Cabin Republicans in Richmond, Virginia, posted a video displaying Pete Buttigieg’s husband Chasten, main an LGBTQ youth group in a pledge of allegiance to the rainbow delight flag reasonably than to an American flag. Chasten had the kids repeat after him as they every held their proper hand over their hearts. 

“I pledge my coronary heart to the rainbow of the not-so-typical homosexual camp. One camp, stuffed with delight, indivisible, with affirmation and equal rights for all.”

On the finish of the pledge, Chasten waved the rainbow flag to the cheers of the LGBTQ youth group. 

The clip initially comes from “Mayor Pete,” an Amazon Prime documentary launched in 2021, which catalogs Buttigieg’s failed 2020 presidential marketing campaign.

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At a marketing campaign occasion for LGBTQ youth in Iowa, Chasten is shown within the documentary working alongside kids and younger adults to brighten “drag-taters,” potatoes dressed to appear like drag queens. In one other clip from the documentary, additionally posted by the Log Cabin Republicans of Richmond, Chasten dramatically pulling again a foldable rainbow fan to disclose his drag-tater. 

“Its [name is] Cherry,” mentioned Chasten in a deep voice, apparently in imitation of a drag queen.

Chasten Buttigieg reveals his “drag-tater” named “Cherry” at an LBGTQ youth occasion depicted within the Amazon Prime Documentary “Mayor Pete.”

Within the clip, Chasten added, “Being out on the path offers me the chance to come back do issues like this. I imply these things identical to, places the wind in my sails. It simply jogs my memory of the significance of the job.”

President of the Richmond Log Cabin Republicans, Casey Flores, advised Fox Digital that he “cannot consider this hasn’t gone mainstream with conservatives till now. Once I noticed it, it did not sit proper with me, and just about all of my Log Cabin Republican pals agreed. Figuring life out is difficult sufficient for youth — they do not want adults pushing them a technique or one other on issues like sexuality. Some would name that grooming.”

In September 2021, it was revealed that Pete and Chasten Buttigieg grew to become mother and father after a surrogate gave start to twins – a boy and a woman – Joseph August and Penelope Rose, respectively. Nevertheless, Transportation Secretary Buttigieg confronted heavy criticism after reportedly occurring paternity go away for a minimum of two months because the nation’s ports confronted a transport bottleneck and the U.S. struggled with a scarcity of truck drivers. Buttigieg reportedly failed to call an appearing transportation secretary whereas he was on go away.

Secretary Buttigieg was not instantly out there for touch upon the clip of his husband. 

Chasten, 32, lately appeared on ABC News to voice his criticisms of Florida’s Parental Rights in Schooling invoice, which has been dubbed by opponents, largely on the left, because the “Do not Say Homosexual Invoice.”

“As a current father, I have been considering rather a lot about what it might be prefer to be dwelling within the state of Florida as an LBGTQ household,” mentioned Chasten, “I feel this invoice is obscure on objective as a result of it’s making an attempt to silence or push households, college students, and LBGTQ people again into the closet.” 

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The invoice requires public colleges to “reinforce the elemental proper of oldsters to make selections relating to the upbringing and management of their kids.” It additionally prevents classroom instruction — not informal dialogue — on “gender id” and “sexual orientation” with kids from kindergarten via third grade, “or in a fashion that’s not age-appropriate or developmentally applicable for college kids in accordance with state requirements.