Pete Buttigieg’s husband has branded Mike Pence a “snowflake” for refusing to apologize for his “maternity go away” joke that the White Home referred to as homophobic.

The previous vice chairman mocked Mr Buttigieg for taking parental go away after the start of his adopted twins, one among whom was handled in hospital for well being points in 2021.

Mr Pence mentioned Mr Buttigieg, who’s the primary brazenly homosexual Cupboard secretary, took “maternity go away” whereas airline issues occurred on the similar time.

Chasten Buttigieg, the husband of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, mentioned throughout an look on ABC’s The View that the couple had not heard from Mr Pence, and that he didn’t count on to.

“No, and I feel it’s not ‘woke,’ , to say that one thing is homophobic or misogynistic. Doesn’t make you woke. It doesn’t make you a snowflake to inform somebody they made a mistake,” he mentioned.

“I do know all of us battle to discover a stability between work and household life. I’ve by no means seen somebody work more durable than my husband to search out that stability, however I feel Republican or Democrat, we are able to all agree when your little one – our prematurely born little one – is barely 5 kilos, when your child is related to a ventilator, you don’t need to be wherever however by their bedside.”

Mr Pence made his controversial comment throughout a white-tie dinner on the Gridiron Membership in Washington DC in entrance of politicians and journalists.

“He took two months ‘maternity’ go away whereupon 1000’s of travellers had been stranded in airports, the air site visitors system shut down, and airplanes practically collided on our runways,” he joked.

“Pete is the one individual in human historical past to have a toddler and everybody else will get postpartum despair.”

One of many couple’s twins needed to be hospitalised and placed on a ventilator after the infants, who at the moment are 18 months previous, had been born prematurely and developed Respiratory Syncytial Virus An infection.

Earlier this week, Chasten Buttigieg tweeted an image of his husband in a hospital room with their little one that was geared toward Mr Pence.

“I spoke up as a result of all of us have an obligation to carry individuals accountable for once they say one thing unsuitable, particularly when it’s misogynistic, particularly when it’s homophobic, and I simply don’t take that when it’s in direction of my household, and I don’t assume anybody else would, particularly if you convey a really small, medically-fragile little one into it,” he mentioned.

After Mr Pence’s remarks, Pete Buttigieg mentioned he was baffled as the previous vice chairman had requested him concerning the youngsters the final time noticed one another.

“I assume, , at a political occasion in white tie, it’s a bit of completely different,” Pete Buttigieg instructed ABC Information on Monday.