Pete Buttigieg drops the hammer on Mike Johnson for pushing conversion therapy

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg swiftly demolished newly minted House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) over his anti-gay views on CNN Friday.

Buttigieg, himself an openly gay man and a married father, suggested that Johnson should look to the Biden administration if he wants to see actual policies that promote family values.

"He worked with a group that promoted conversion therapy, the idea that people who are gay can be turned not gay, and this is widely discredited," said anchor John Berman. "And then said homosexual behavior is something that you do, and not something that you are."

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"Look, I've often said that if being gay was a choice, that was a choice that was way above my pay grade," said Buttigieg. "The point is I am a father of two, and our family deserved to be protected and supported just like every American family. Most Americans get that. Most Americans believe that. I admit it is difficult to be driving the family minivan knowing that the Speaker of the House does not believe that my family should exist, but that is why I live under the protection of the Supreme Court and the Constitution, which established our right to have that family, and serving under a president who believes that everybody, everybody is included and protected, including families like mine."

"I don't know if you heard that interview, but to hear that language as someone who is second in line to the presidency, how does that feel?" asked Berman.

"Well, it is time travel, and most independents and Democrats respect things like marriage equality," said Buttigieg. "And if you are pro-family, and if you want to support families, then support things like the president's push to have insulin be $35, which we were able to do for seniors and we would do it for everybody if the House Republicans hadn't blocked it. If you care about families, take another look at the child tax credit, which cut child poverty in this country in half, and then when they let it expire, because people like Mike Johnson were against it, then child poverty rate doubled again. Let's talk about what it really means to support families, whether it's LGBTQ+ individuals or any other family in America trying to get through life."

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"All I can do from the seat i am in is to try to support them, whether it is the Second Avenue tunnel, or the supply chains, that go to how a family is going to put the box of cereal on the table, and I would love for him to help and not hurt those families," he added.

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