When Pete Buttigieg ran for president earlier this year, CNSNews.com regularly attacked him with an emphasis on gay-bashing. Now that President-elect Joe Biden intends to nominate Buttigieg as his transportation secretary, CNS went on the attack again — and, again, with a side of gay-bashing.
CNS bizarrely felt the need to flood the zone regarding Buttigieg’s nomination, with a whopping five articles in two days:
The first, anonymously written article first quoted Nancy Pelosi calling the nomination historic, then making sure to add, “Buttigieg, a homosexual, is married to Chasten Buttigieg.” The article is irrelevantly illustrated by picture of Buttigieg kissing Chasten.
The second, by Susan Jones, made a point of noting that Buttigieg has “no particular credentials in the transportation industry” and portrayed Buttigieg stating that “I proposed to my husband Chasten in an airport terminal” as his claim to transportation expertise. The article also included a picture of Buttigieg and his spouse, which it at least somewhat germane to the article’s content.
The third, also by Jones, dismissed Biden’s call for a “railroad revolution” during his Buttigieg announcementas a “back-to-the-future comment” and once again claimed that Buttigieg “didn’t have any solid transportation credentials to highlight.”
The fourth, by Craig Bannister, omitted Buttigieg’s first name while scaremongering that “The man apparent President-Elect Joe Biden wants to head up the Department of Transportation has repeatedly called for a tax on carbon, which would result in an increase in the cost of gasoline at the fuel pump. And, carbon is just one of the things Buttigieg has said he wants to tax.”
The fifth, by managing editor Michael W. Chapman, combines his usual gay-bashing with implicit criticism of a liberal Catholic priest who praised Buttigieg’s nomination:
Although former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg is a practicing homosexual “married” to another man, influential Catholic priest Rev. James Martin, SJ, praised him and congratulated President-elect Joe Biden for picking the “openly gay” Buttigieg to be the next Secretary of Transportation.
[…]Engaging in homosexual practices and being in a same-sex “marriage” are contrary to the teachings of the Catholic Church. Promoting or supporting such actions are also contrary to church teachings.
As reported by LifeSiteNews, Fr. Martin “suggested in November that religious liberty claims by Catholic adoption agencies who refused to place children with homosexual couples was ‘a cover for homophobia.'”
The article is illustrated with a shot of a Time magazine cover featuring Buttigieg with his spouse.
Four days later, on Dec. 21, Jones did an article about a Fox News appearance by Buttigieg, making sure to assert once again that “as a former mayor, Buttigieg has no particular experience in transportation or infrastructure.”
CNS wasn’t done going after Buttigieg after the initial announcement, though. An anonymously written Dec. 29 article was devoted to noting that “sent out a tweet on December 26, wishing people a ‘joyful and meaningful Kwanzaa,'” for the sole apparent purpose of using a picture of Buttigieg hugging his spouse. The anonymous writer did not elaborate on the purpose of using that irrelevant picture with this article.