Buttigieg, the 39-year-old former mayor of South Bend, Indiana has been approved by an 86-13 vote.
“I’m honored and humbled by today’s vote in the Senate—and ready to get to work,” Buttigieg tweeted shortly after he was confirmed.
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With a stroke of the pen, the People’s President Biden, repealed Trumpzilla’s ban of inclusion of Transgender service members in our military.
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“Being raised in a faith community, and then being asked explicitly not to be there or not to be valued is hard on a person,” Moore said. “There are many (LGBTQ) persons in our community who have an interest in reengaging with faith communities, but because of the harm that has been done, they are hesitant to do so.
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“We’ve got a crisis of belonging in this country,” Buttigieg said. Speaking to the LGBTQ community directly, he said, “We have the power to reach into our own experience: Belonging to a part of America that also cuts across all of the other different categories,” and that as “the only minority that exists in equal proportion across every ethnicity family and income group. We could help be that glue.” – Mayor Pete Buttigieg
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