Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was a guest on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last week, theoretically to promote an infrastructure project to the New York subway, but also because there are no TV and movie stars making the circuit during the actors' strike.
Toward the end of the interview, Colbert asked Buttigieg about the new Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, referencing the virulently antigay Speaker's past accusation that same-sex marriage is "a dark harbinger of chaos." Buttigieg offered the Johnson not condemnation, but an invitation to dinner.
“I don’t know, maybe we’ll just have him over. If he could see what it’s like when I come home from work, and Chas is bringing the kids home from daycare or vice versa, and one of us is getting the mac and cheese ready and the other’s microwaving those freezer meatballs — which are a great cheat code if you’ve got a toddler and you need to feed them quickly, and one won’t take their shoes off and one needs a diaper change. Everything about that is chaos, but nothing about this is dark. The love of God is in that household.”
I haven't seen any reports that Maga Mike has accepted the Glezman-Buttigieges' invitation for mac and cheese, but they ought to have plenty to talk about over dinner. They are each adoptive parents, after all, differences between adopting a pair of infants and adopting a 14-year-old notwithstanding.
Let's hope they abide by the common wisdom and steer the conversation away from politics and religion.
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