An Open Letter to the Left-Wing Bishop Who Lectured Trump and Vance at the National Prayer Service.

Curiously, there was a reading from the Koran by Dr. Muhammad Fraser-Rahim, the associate Imam at Masjid Muhammad (The Nation’s Mosque), and the Muslim call to prayer led by Cantor Shayhk Akbar Sharrief, chief mu'adhin of the same mosque. One can understand the desire for inclusivity, but at the same time, Islam makes no bones about its disregard and contempt for other religions, especially Judaism and Christianity. But the formalities must be observed, I suppose.

Mariann Edgar Budde, bishop ..:

Let me make one final plea, Mr. President. Millions have put their trust in you, and as you told the nation yesterday, you have felt the providential hand of a loving God. In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country, and we're scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender children ..

Bishop Budde, if LGBTQ people are afraid, it is largely because of the rhetoric that anyone opposed to transgenderism is a proponent of "genocide." You may have missed it, but a fair number of gays and lesbians oppose the transgender movement because of its sexualization of children. Most conservatives I know really don't care what consenting adults do with one another. If you don't believe that, perhaps you should meet more conservatives. There is a whole world outside the echo chamber. .. Will you apologize to the black, Latino, gay, lesbian, Asian, and other people who looked beyond the wild-eyed rhetoric of your compatriots to find common ground with those vile "MAGATS" and who were subjected to all manner of racial and sexual insults, slurs and threats?

Will you apologize to Jews in universities and across the nation and admonish those who engaged in violence on behalf of Palestine?

You seem to care about immigration a great deal. Will you work to stop the flow of fentanyl across the border? Will you help those Americans in Chicago, New York, and other blue cities who have found themselves unable to access housing, food, or medical care because governments have prioritized illegal immigrants? Will you work to heal the wounds of those who have lost loved ones to crimes committed by illegals? Will you house those forced out of their homes by Venezuelan gangs? Will you pledge to stop the human trafficking? Will you find homes for those minors shunted aside into slavery by HHS?

And what of the "vast majority of immigrants" who are not criminals?
Will you acknowledge that under the previous administration, they were followed here by the very forces of evil that they sought to escape?
Will you ask them to be accountable to the nation they have come to? Will you demand that the businesses and politicians who have benefited from illegal immigration face scrutiny?

Will you call to account Antifa and BLM, who put cities to the torch and assaulted people?

Will you rebuke the Biden family and the warmongers on the Left and the Right who saw dollar signs in the war in Ukraine?

Will you demand that those politicians, including those on the Left, who made profits in the stock market via their positions be held accountable?

Will you stand up to BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard? Will you join in calling Big Pharma on the carpet?

You are worried about Trump. Will you even consider the corruption and lies that were endemic to the previous administration?

Will you hold your own people to the standard to which you wish to retain the opposition?

You won't do any of those things because they conflict with your smug, myopic version of "justice." And I know of what I speak. I was a Leftist and an Episcopalian for 40 years. You have more than one plank in your eye and spend too much time thanking God that you are "not like that tax collector." You demand everything from the other side and nothing from your own.

And so, yet again, we see that when you progressives find yourselves without the reins of power in your hands, you are eager to sue for peace and demand mercy, compassion, and understanding — things which, when you were in control, you were in no mood to grant to your enemies. Now, you seek a truce when months ago, you wanted war...?

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