Buttigieg: Idea that God wants Pence to be vice president gives God 'very little credit'

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BY ARIS FOLLEY - 04/03/19 08:23 AM EDT

Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg said in a recent interview that Vice President Mike Pence’s reported belief that God wants him to be vice president and Donald Trump to be president seems to give God “very little credit.”

The South Bend, Ind. mayor was pressed on the issue during a discussion Father Edward Beck, a Roman Catholic priest and on-air faith and religion commentator for CNN.

Buttigieg said in response that “the idea that God wants somebody like Mike Pence to be the cheerleader for a president largely known for his association with hush money to adult film actresses seems to me to give God very little credit.”

During the pair’s discussion on religious faith and public life, which was released on Tuesday, Buttigieg also took aim at Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which Pence signed into law when he was governor of the state in 2015.

Buttigieg said he viewed the legislation, which allows businesses in Indiana to cite their religious freedom as a defense in lawsuits, as a “license to harm others in the name of religion.”

“It was to me a trashing not just of our sense of freedom and our sense of rights, but also, in some way, a trashing of religion,” he continued. “Like is this really the biggest thing we should be doing to accommodate religion right now: making it easier to harm people in its name?”

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