Chasten Buttigieg: Marriage Makes Me Want to Be a Better Person
For anyone wondering what marriage means to one of the best-known gay men in the U.S., Chasten Buttigieg has an answer.“My marriage has filled this house with so much love it makes me want to be a better husband, father, and citizen every day,” the husband of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg wrote in a Tuesday post on Medium. “It’s called me to something bigger than myself while recognizing that my kids are now the most important thing in life, and I’d do anything to protect them.
Our family and our union push me to make sure we leave our kids a country and a world they can thrive in so that they, too, can enjoy all of the love and light and happiness that Pete and I have known simply by falling in love with one another.”The piece was published a few hours before the U.S.
Senate passed the Respect for Marriage Act, which will write marriage equality into federal law so that it will be established even if the Supreme Court overturns its 2015 marriage equality ruling.
Right-wing Justice Clarence Thomas has said that ruling should be reversed if the court gets the chance.The House of Representatives has already passed the act, but the Senate added an amendment to it aimed at allaying concerns about the impact on religious freedom, so the House must vote again.
