Albert the Pious is having a difficult time dealing with the nomination of Pete Buttigieg as Transportation Secretary.
Well, how long will the LGBTQ movement celebrate the fact that an openly gay middle-class white man has become the first LGBTQ openly such member of a president’s cabinet because after all, he’s not a lesbian and because after all, he’s not bisexual and he is not African-American and he is not Hispanic and he is not, well, you can go down the list. He is not transgender. And so, as you’re looking at this, you recognize that LGBTQ and then of course the plus sign that follow means that, next there will be the demand that there needs to be the first openly lesbian member of a president’s cabinet.
And then, they will just go down the list, LGBTQ and of course, as you’re looking at the plus sign, this is never going to end. As we’re looking at this, we recognize that we have now reached a certain point in the revolution in American morality and culture where yes, Pete Buttigieg has now been nominated by the president-elect to be the next Secretary of Transportation. But the nomination is not really so much about the Department of Transportation or any particular expertise when it comes to transportation. It has instead to do with identity politics but there is another angle to the Buttigieg nomination and it shows up very interestingly in the main article about the announcement that appeared in the New York Times. This article by Reid Epstein and Coral Davenport has the headline, “Former Rival as Partner for Agenda on Climate.”
There is merit in the observation that Buttigieg has no special expertise, or even experience, in transportation, and if Mohler had let his criticism rest with that I’d probably agree with him. But the gratuitous acknowledgement that Buttigieg is not a lesbian? Or transgender?
Mohler has turned a humdrum political appointment into a rant about moral upheaval.