Okay, so the story is exactly what’s promised in the headline. But I’m going to bury the lede for a minute, just so you can get on the same wavelength as I’m in while I write this.

Nobody. Pretends. To. Be. Gay.

Why would anyone do that? It hasn’t even been a decade since it was legal to marry as a gay person. They’re still overtly harassed, persecuted, and ridiculed by small-minded people.

No one chooses to be treated as a second-class citizen.

With that out of the way, we’re back on topic: Right-wingers think Pete is pretending to be gay. They think that him pretending to be gay got him a job as mayor in a town in Indiana, where the adult LGBT population is less than 5 percent. Pretending to be gay made him one of the most successful candidates for the Democratic nomination in 2020, behind only Bernie and Joe.

Yeah, that’s it, guys. Pretending to be gay got him the second-most votes in IOWA, where there even fewer gay people than Indiana.

Anyway, Daily Wire host Michael Knowles was all about advancing that theory. He doesn’t believe it, of course, but there’s this guy he knows who does, you see…

“Put another nickel in the Pete-is-not-gay conspiracy theory jar. I’ve always taken Pete at his word that he is a homosexual.

However, I have some friends including a homosexual friend of mine, Spencer Klavan, who has said for a long time that Pete Buttigieg is not really gay.

I’m not saying he’s a straight white guy. I’m saying this is the conspiracy theory. ‘He’s a straight white guy.’ So he’s got this problem. Right?

He’s over there at Harvard. He says, ‘Shoot, man. I’m not gonna rise very far in liberal politics if I’m the most evil type of person in the world, a straight white guy. So I need something. I need some struggle.’

Listen, I know a white guy who’s married to a woman who identifies as queer. In fact, I know multiple straight white guys who call themselves non-heterosexual or non-straight or whatever.”

For the love of sanity, make these idiots stop.