Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg is facing criticism after he used a Proverbs bible verse during Tuesday’s Democratic primary debate.
Buttigieg was responding to a question about how he would help workers keep their jobs in auto manufacturing as the industry faces cutbacks in the Midwest.
“Well, this happened in my community 20 years before I was born. And when I was growing up, we were still picking up the pieces,” he said. “Empty factories, empty houses, poverty. I know exactly what happens to a community when these closures take place. And there will be more.”
“We actually need to put the interests of workers first,” he said, adding that the minimum wage is “just too low.”
“And so-called conservative Christian senators right now in the Senate are blocking a bill to raise the minimum wage, when scripture says that whoever oppresses the poor taunts their maker,” Buttigieg said.
Buttigieg was referring to Proverbs 14:31, which says “He who oppresses the poor taunts his Maker, but he who is gracious to the needy honors Him.”
“[It] never fails to baffle how progressives can appeal to the Bible to arrive at an exact minimum wage ($15, according to Buttigieg), yet ignore, reject, or plead ambiguity on the Bible’s teaching on marriage and abortion,” Andrew T. Walker, a senior fellow…
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