Recently, Pete Buttigeig, an openly gay mayor from Indiana who is running for President in 2020, tweeted out the following:
People will often be polite to you in person, while advancing policies that harm you and your family. You will be polite to them in turn, but you need not stand for such harms. Instead, you push back, honestly and emphatically. So it goes, in the public square.
— Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) April 9, 2019
In response, Dr. Ana Samuel, a self-described “Latina Mother,” issued an open letter to Mayor Buttigeig, offering a well-thought out counter-weight to his one-sided position.
In the letter she argues, “As a Latina mama in touch with a number of other Latinas with traditional family values, I can tell you we are faced every daywith people who are “polite to us in person” but who advance and execute policies that assault our values, harm our families, and hurt our children.”
Listing several examples, Samuel claims that anyone who does not subscribe to leftist ideology is always playing defense with their children due to the constant bombardment of subversive measures to make sure their children are indoctrinated. She says that it is disingenuous to play the victim when most of culture is working feverishly to normalize (and it would appear, prioritize) the LGBT lifestyle:
Mr. Mayor, it is hypocritical for you to cry foul about policies that “harm you and your family” while your side pushes for government intrusions into the parent-child relationship at the most fundamental levels.
This is a fascinating and measured response from someone who has decided she will not sit idly by and allow this kind of rhetoric to go unchecked. I appreciate her tone and desire for honest, respectful dialogue while remaining firm and determined in her approach, especially as Mayor Pete’s tweet articulates perfectly the sentiment of those who disagree with his policies. You can read the entire article here.
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