If a Republican tried to claim that Christianity the way this guy does, as a club to hit people with, they’d get called out as demagogic.
Via Free Beacon:
South Bend mayor and presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg invoked Christian scripture to argue for increasing the minimum wage during Tuesday’s CNN Democratic debate.
During the second half of the debate, CNN host Don Lemon asked Buttigieg what his campaign’s plan is to retrain American workers who have been displaced by automation and globalization.
Buttigieg acknowledged manufacturing jobs would continue to go away in the future economy and suggested some of these workers would need to be retrained. He additionally proposed that gig workers be allowed to unionize before going into his critiques of the current minimum wage of the United States.
“So-called conservative Christian senators right now in the Senate are blocking a bill to raise the minimum wage,” Buttigieg said. “When scripture says whoever oppresses the poor taunts their maker.”