Posted on 02/02/2025 6:05:18 PM PST by ReformationFan
The far-left Episcopal bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington (D.C.), Mariann Budde, directed predictably misguided left-wing remarks to newly inaugurated President Trump in a sermon at a now widely publicized interfaith “Service of Prayer for the Nation” held at the Washington National Cathedral the morning after Trump’s inauguration (Jan. 21). She focused on “unity” for most of her message, which she said is “not partisan.”
Yet her message conveyed the opposite on both counts: It was neither unifying nor nonpartisan to anyone who doesn’t embrace her leftwing views, least of all to Trump. With the Trumps and Vances sitting in a front-row pew, she called on Trump at the end of her sermon “to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now,” both “gay, lesbian, and transgender children … who fear for their lives” and children who “fear that their [illegal immigrant] parents will be taken away” (full text of prepared sermon here, with some variation in the live delivery).
She was responding to Trump’s new executive order that defines “male” and “female” on the basis of objective reproductive cells (egg or sperm) rather than by subjective “gender identity,” and to an array of executive orders dealing with illegal immigration, including the deportation of many whom Biden intentionally let cross our southern border in the millions.
The Leftist Track Record of Bishop Budde As indicated by her “plea” to Trump, Budde is a leftist who received her position as bishop in the leftist Episcopal denomination in part because of her leftist views. As regards abortion, on CBS’s “Face the Nation” this past March 31, she declared: “I … respect a woman’s right to choose … when to have an abortion in the early stages of pregnancy.”
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Isn’t she the one who has her hand in the grants for helping illegals cookie jar?
Isn’t she the one who has her hand in the grants for helping illegals cookie jar?
Yeah, some Bible preachers have taken her to the cleaners over what she said, totally un-Biblical in what she said.
That’s right, she IS.
And deservedly so!
“It worked, didn’t it?”
Yep. USAID.
What she said was completely Biblical. Anyone in Sodom or Gomorrah would have said the same thing.
Write her and cite Romans 1:18-32. You may ask her if she reads her Bible—if she has one,
THE RT. REV. MARIANN EDGAR BUDDE
Bishop of Washington
202-537-6525
Episcopal Church House
Mount St. Alban
Washington, DC 20016
It is so disturbing witnessing all these misguided weirdos coming to light. America . . . was becoming the armpit of the world.
ping
DOGE discovered her Episcopalian Immigration nonprofit got $53 million USD last year
And she lives in a $2 million dollar house
Blessed are they…
The infiltration of the church by satan is best evidenced by women assuming the mantle of authority over ecclesiastical life. There is no Biblical support for this.
“Her Bible”? I doubt that she even has one, let alone reads it.
1st Corinthians 33-35
33 For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
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.
I don’t understand why anyone is scared for their lives. I suspect an overreaction.
Why have a "service" as part of the inauguration?
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