'I guarantee they would love to see you or me punished or put in jail,' the pastor said of LGBTQ activists.
Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg found himself in the crosshairs of a firebrand pastor this week, who claimed the openly-gay politician would crack down on Christianity if elected in 2020, and that his LGBTQ supporters wanted to turn America into a “homocracy.”
Referencing Buttigieg, Jackson earlier claimed a “normal man” would be “disgusted by the idea of two men kissing each other on the mouth” and fumed against political correctness. “I know that as much as these LGBT activists say that I want a theocracy, which I don’t because I don’t want to punish them or put them in jail for what they are doing, I want to see them converted. But I guarantee they would love to see you or me punished or put in jail. You know what, we don’t want a theocracy, but I guarantee you, they want a homocracy.”
This week, he told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow about his experience coming out as gay at the age of 33—after serving in the military, being deployed in Afghanistan and elected in Indiana. He told the host that he previously assumed the roles were “incompatible” with his sexuality. “The good news is the condition of my soul is in the hands of God, but the Iowa caucuses are up to you," Buttigieg said in response to the interruption.
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