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Super-Informed Caucus-Goer Learns Pete Buttigieg Is Gay, Asks to Rescind Vote

"I don't want anybody like that in the White House!"

Pete Buttigieg has made history as the first openly gay Democratic presidential candidate. But not everyone knows he's gay—not even some voters participating in the Iowa caucus.

A new video uploaded to YouTube shows what happens after one informed woman, who had submitted her caucus card for Buttigieg, learns the candidate she supports is a gay man. An openly gay man married to another man, Chasten, who has been very prominent on the campaign trail.

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A precinct team member for Democratic Presidential Candidate Pete Buttigieg wears buttons as he caucuses at Abraham Lincoln High School in Des Moines, Iowa, on February 3, 2020. (Photo by JIM WATSON / AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

"Are you saying that he has a same-sex partner?" the woman asks the precinct captain. When the captain confirms that Buttigieg is indeed gay, the caucus-goer says, "Well, I don't want anybody like that in the White House," and asks if she can have her card back.

"The whole point of it is he's a human being, just like you and me," the very patient precinct captain explains to the woman. "And should it really matter?"

Now irate, the woman then says that Buttigieg should "read the Bible."

"Should it matter... if they are heterosexual or homosexual if you believe in what they say? That's what my question is to you," the precinct captain responds, telling the homophobic woman she should "look inside" her heart. "What I teach my son is love is love, and we are all human beings."

Can this precinct captain please run for something? She already has our vote!

Watch the awkward exchange in the video below.

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