Pete Buttigieg had the most beautiful response to Mike Johnson’s hatred of LGBTQ+ people

Out gay Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg agrees with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) that same-sex marriage brings chaos—just not the kind that Johnson is thinking of.

Buttigieg stopped by The Late Show last night, and host Stephen Colbert didn’t miss the opportunity to ask Buttigieg about Johnson’s long record of anti-LGBTQ+ views.

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“He’s anti-gay, anti-choice, pro-conspiracy theory. He seems terrific.”

“His record on LGBTQ issues is, what’s the word? Awful,” Colbert said of Johnson, who, in addition to being considered a leading “architect” of former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, has also worked with the hate group Alliance Defending Freedom and the conversion therapy organization Exodus International, and opposed the rights to same-sex marriage, same-sex adoption, and same-sex marital benefits.

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Colbert went on to ask Buttigieg how he planned to work with someone who once described same-sex marriage as “the dark harbinger of chaos and sexual anarchy that could doom even the strongest republic” in a 2004 op-ed.

“Look, I’ll work with anybody who can help us get good transportation available to the American people,” Buttigieg said.

“But I don’t know. Maybe we’ll just have him over,” he continued, noting that the home he shares with husband Chasten and their two young children isn’t far from the Capitol. “If he could see what it’s like when I come home from work, and Chas is bringing the kids home from daycare or vice versa, and one of us is getting the mac and cheese ready and the other one’s microwaving those little freezer meatballs – that are a great cheat code if you’ve got toddlers and you gotta feed them quickly – and they won’t take their shoes off and one of them needs a diaper change. Everything about that is chaos, but nothing about that is dark. The love of God is in that household.”

For his part, Johnson has claimed that he doesn’t even remember “some of” the many anti-LGBTQ+ editorials he wrote in the early 2000s, prior to his career in public office.

“I respect the rule of law,” he told Fox News host Sean Hannity last week. “When the Supreme Court issued the Obergefell opinion, that became the law of the land, okay? I respect the rule of the law, but I also genuinely love all people, regardless of their lifestyle choices. This is not about the people themselves. I am a Bible-believing Christian.”

In another Fox News interview this week, he said, “If you truly believe in the Bible’s commands and you seek to follow those, it is impossible to be a hateful person!”

But his anti-LGBTQ+ record speaks for itself. Most recently, he introduced a federal version of Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law, falsely accused President Joe Biden of breaking federal law by displaying the Progress Pride flag outside the White House, and claimed that parents do not have the right to provide their children with access to gender-affirming healthcare.