Pete Buttigieg to evangelical vaccine hold-outs: Maybe it's part of God's plan
By David Sherfinski
The Washington Times
April 11, 2021
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Sunday that faith-minded people who say they don’t plan to get a coronavirus vaccine should consider that the shots could be part of God’s plan for their well- being.
Mr. Buttigieg had been asked about a recent poll showing nearly 3 in 10 White evangelical Christians say they definitely will not get vaccinated.
“Sometimes I’ve heard people — people I care about — saying, ‘If I’m faithful, God’s going to take care of me,’” Mr. Buttigieg said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “I guess what I would hope they might consider is that maybe a vaccine is part of God’s plan for how you’re going to take care of yourself.”
Mr. Buttigieg was open about his Christian faith during the 2020 Democratic presidential primary contest, but said that faith leaders — and not an official in a Democratic administration — would probably be better messengers on such issues.
“In the end, I have to admit that it’s unlikely that an official like me is going to be persuasive to somebody who maybe doesn’t feel like Washington’s been speaking to them for a long time,” he said.
Mr. Buttigieg also echoed the White House in saying there are no plans for the government to craft a “vaccine passport” or some form of proof of vaccination as a pre-requisite to board a domestic flight.
“We don’t view this as the role of the government to create or mandate any kind of vaccine passport,” he said. “But these technologies are there, [the] private sector is working on them and we’re interested in following that and providing any kind of technical advice or support where needed.”
Guest
If you have confidence in the vaccines, of which there are many, by all means do so.
But you should admit the information we have been assured was the state of the art, has evolved, devolved, and been contradicted for more than a year.
The spokesmen for the CDC & NIH are not convincing.
alto en chamade
I don't feel like what you are doing is what a real Christian would be doing.
EdWalton
This isn’t a vaccine, this about altering DNA. Their current concoction may be benign, but these tyrants intend evil, and will continue one lockdown after another each time demanding we take another DNA altering drug. We’re not far and the democrats will decree that we address them as god!!!
Marsha Frey
I don't look for any message coming from God to be transported through Buttigieg - not now, not ever.
Spec Ops Lawyer
“In the end, I have to admit that it’s unlikely that an official like me is going to be persuasive to somebody who maybe doesn’t feel like Washington’s been speaking to them for a long time,” he said."
With these words Buttigieg did two things. He admitted many Americans won't buy into the monumental lunacy coming out of Washington DC and he's desperate to get back into the limelight of the Democratic- Socialist Party before he's forgotten, again.
Minesweeper
Clever boy, consummate politician. Not a compliment by the way.
DeeJay
If it were part of God’s plan for our welfare, then He would not have allowed the insurrection of the workers of iniquity to promote lies and censor truth. Not likely that a Holy God would speak through a person living in open rebellion to instruct the church either. We all know this is the antichrist agenda and the devil himself likes to present himself as an messenger of light and truth.
Ernie
Hey, Pete: Maybe sodomy isn’t part of God’s plan for mankind. Just sayin’.
SadlyOrwellian
He'd be the last one to know.
Kris
What is this Vax-shaming or using one's faith in God to manipulate them? Even Franklin Graham caved and blamed Jesus! Both Pete and Frank are ignorant. The mRNA shots are killing and damaging vaccinees. No one, fully informed, Christian or atheist, would ever take an experimental, investigational, injection.
TrumpAntichrist
30 minutes ago
Buttigieg gets it wrong.
It is part of God's plan.
The more of these religious nutjobs die the better.
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I remember
The swine flu scare
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