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Buttigieg [D-IN] Uses Abortion to Fear-Monger on Gay Rights Again

Fear-mongering that gay rights are on the chopping block - unless, conveniently, you vote for Democrats in November - is the same play they've run for years.

June 3, 2022

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg [D-IN] just shamelessly tried to use the SCOTUS leak around Roe v. Wade to whip up fear in the gay community around gay rights. "I don't think it stops at Roe," he ominously warned in Detroit, parroting a talking point pushed by the Left and their allies in the media.

This isn't the first time Mayor Pete has tried to baselessly stir up fear in the gay community, either. Earlier this year, both he and his husband Chasten baselessly claimed, without evidence, that Florida's Parental Rights in Education law would "kill" people.

Just like last time, Buttigieg's latest scare tactics around abortion and gay marriage are not just lies - they are a transparent attempt to boost the Democrats' sagging enthusiasm for the midterm elections. As Log Cabin President Charles Moran explained in a New York Post op-ed last month:

As the president of the country's largest organization representing gay Republicans and their allies, I see this false line of attack for what it is: a nakedly partisan talking point designed to gin up fear among the gay community and its allies to boost the Democrats' sagging enthusiasm heading into the midterm elections.

Left-wing groups like the Human Rights Campaign traffic in panic and seize every opportunity they can to fundraise for their massive Democratic get-out-the-vote machines. Fear-mongering that gay rights are on the chopping block - unless, conveniently, you vote for Democrats in November - is the same play they've run for years.

Gay Americans deserve better than to be pawns in their game

While Pete Buttigieg and the Democrats continue to try to scare people, here's an actual fact: according to a new poll released by Gallup this week, a record-high 71% percentage of Americans - including a majority of Republicans - now support marriage equality.

Log Cabin Republicans will fight credible attempts to undermine marriage equality whenever we see it - but this isn't it. In the meantime, we will continue to call out an increasingly desperate Left using fear to cash more checks.