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Who Is Mariann Edgar Budde, the Bishop Who Made a Plea to Trump?
The New York Times ^ | January 21, 2025 | Tim Balk By Elizabeth Dias and Tim Balk

Posted on 01/22/2025 10:12:04 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde, whose direct appeal to President Trump for mercy on behalf of immigrants and the L.G.B.T.Q. community made headlines on Tuesday, was also publicly critical of Mr. Trump during his first term.

Bishop Budde, 65, is the first woman to serve as the spiritual leader of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, and she has led the diocese since 2011.

Before moving to Washington, she spent nearly two decades as rector of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Minneapolis. She is an alumna of the University of Rochester in upstate New York, and she grew up partially in New Jersey and partially in Colorado. She enjoys biking around Washington.

Since last summer her diocese, which includes the National Cathedral, planned to host a prayer service the day after the inauguration regardless of who won the presidency. No matter the outcome, she intended to preach, she said.

In 2020, Bishop Budde wrote an opinion piece in The New York Times saying that she was “outraged” and “horrified” by Mr. Trump’s use of the Bible, which he held aloft at St. John’s Church after officers used tear gas against protesters for racial justice in nearby Lafayette Square. She wrote that Mr. Trump had “used sacred symbols” while “espousing positions antithetical to the Bible.”
On Tuesday, she again had a message for Mr. Trump.

With the president seated in the front of the church, she closed her sermon by urging him “to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now.”
She cited L.G.B.T.Q. people and immigrants — apparently responding to the president’s efforts to crack down on illegal immigration and to dismantle federal protections for transgender people.

The bishop said that unity required honesty, humility...

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Time for the Pervert Supremacists to retreat to their closets.
1 posted on 01/22/2025 10:12:04 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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She wrote that Mr. Trump had “used sacred symbols” while “espousing positions antithetical to the Bible.”

The irony...

2 posted on 01/22/2025 10:17:13 AM PST by Teacher317
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

So I’d like to know who picked her in the first place to speak at the prayer breakfast?


3 posted on 01/22/2025 10:17:48 AM PST by willk (Local news media. Just as big an enemy to this country as national media)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Edgar was her given name, obviously. 😸


4 posted on 01/22/2025 10:18:49 AM PST by alstewartfan (Child slavery, rape and drug OD's mean nothing to Roberts and Barrett. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

An annoying lesbo masquerading as a “Bishop”.

1 Corinthians 14:34-36
King James Version
34) Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law.

35) And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.

36) What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only?


5 posted on 01/22/2025 10:19:16 AM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI...)
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So I’d like to know who picked her in the first place to speak at the prayer breakfast?

Probably someone associated with the inaugural committee, like Amy Klobuchar.

6 posted on 01/22/2025 10:19:28 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Teacher317

The Trump Team should have been well aware this would happen. They need to do better to steer him away from these types of sitations. BISHOP, she is not. She got what she wanted, PUBLICITY.


7 posted on 01/22/2025 10:19:41 AM PST by rovenstinez
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It’s tragic that not one person stood up to rebuke her.


8 posted on 01/22/2025 10:20:13 AM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI...)
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To: willk

Good question.

Folks around here are already getting complacent and overconfident.

Our enemies remain hard at work.


9 posted on 01/22/2025 10:20:21 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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She didn’t make a ‘plea’, she lectured the president and by extension those who voted for him. She’s just another pious and arrogant liberal.


10 posted on 01/22/2025 10:20:54 AM PST by Starboard
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Her cohort, the female Episcopal Bishop of Baltimore, recently was sprung from prison after three years for a DUI killing of a bicyclist and leaving the scene of an accident.


11 posted on 01/22/2025 10:21:27 AM PST by laconic ( )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

An exorcism, but the host was not yet cleared from the building.


12 posted on 01/22/2025 10:21:53 AM PST by Varsity Flight ( "War by 🙏 the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite warriors. 10.5.6.5 These Days)
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“Our enemies remain hard at work.”

***********

How true. The more things Trump does the more he produces for his voters the more the Left hates him.

Every Trump success intensifies their motivation to stop him. These are intensely emotion driven people we’re dealing with.


13 posted on 01/22/2025 10:23:40 AM PST by Starboard
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It’s mystifying why Episcopals are so venerated. It just Church of England without the king. They are in communion with the Anglican church.

Not much American about them that we should have a president endure her assaholic lecture.


14 posted on 01/22/2025 10:23:56 AM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI...)
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Being somewhat familiar with the Episcopal Church in the Twin Cities (my wife is a member and I’m Catholic and we sometimes attend a different Episcopal Church in the Twin Cities), the church Budde came from is waaaay out in left field - even by Episcopal standards.

It, to some degree, markets itself as a gay church. It’s in a very liberal upscale area of Minneapolis. Very white, very liberal and very NIMBY. You won’t find homeless encampments in the parks near them nor would you find blue collar working people or blacks.

My sister in law heard about Budde and told my wife “Well, that doesn’t surprise me at all. She enjoys being the center of attention”.


15 posted on 01/22/2025 10:26:01 AM PST by MplsSteve
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She’s apparently married to a man and has two kids.


16 posted on 01/22/2025 10:26:26 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: DesertRhino

She is married to a man and has children, so is not a lesbo.

But as a woman, she has no business being a Bishop. And she is a long-term Trump hater.


17 posted on 01/22/2025 10:27:22 AM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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“She wrote that Mr. Trump had “used sacred symbols” while “espousing positions antithetical to the Bible.””

Say the women Bishop in open defiance to the words of Jesus, St Paul, and half the Bible.


18 posted on 01/22/2025 10:28:36 AM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI...)
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“My sister in law heard about Budde and told my wife “Well, that doesn’t surprise me at all. She enjoys being the center of attention”.”

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Her display of disrespect bordered on the rabid. She gave a lecture that was disguised as a prayer service.


19 posted on 01/22/2025 10:29:49 AM PST by Starboard
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“Who is Mariann Edgar Budde?”

A heretic. That’s all I need to know about the woman.


20 posted on 01/22/2025 10:31:56 AM PST by cross_bearer_02
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