Presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg is looking to heal the divisions in US society, and he’s starting with Chick-fil-A.
The gay Democratic challenger, who is mayor of South Bend, Indiana, spoke out about the fast food chicken chain in an interview with New York’s Power 105.1 on Tuesday (March 26).
The chain has long funded groups that lobby against LGBT+ rights, with recent accounts revealing it gave $1.8 million to anti-LGBT causes in 2017 alone.
However, Buttigieg wants to work towards a world where gay people can eat chicken guilt-free.
Gay Democratic Pete Buttigieg says he could help heal Chick-fil-A divide
He said: “I do not approve of their politics, but I kind of approve of their chicken.
“Maybe if nothing else, I can build that bridge. Maybe I’ll become in a position to broker that peace deal.”
He added: “We’ve got to find a way to use our identities to reach other people.
“When you’re conscious of your identity, either it turns into all these ways we separate ourselves from each other, and turns into one big ‘you don’t know me,’ or we can say, ‘I’ve got this experience, you’ve got that experience, what can we talk about that brings us together?’
“I have no clue what it’s like to walk in the shoes of so many other people, but I can talk about some of the pieces of what I carry with me, and see if it rhymes with their life experience.
“We’ve got back to that, before this current presidency completely tears us apart.”
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