Remember Episcopal Bishop Marian Edgar Budde? On January 21, as presiding bishop for the National Cathedral’s “Service of Prayer for the Nation,” Budde decided to use a supposedly ecumenical and unifying prayer event to browbeat President Donald Trump and make her case for illegal immigrants and the LGBTQ-all-the-letters tribe.
Let’s revisit some of that speech for context.
In the name of our God, I ask you, to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian and transgender children in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives.
And the people… the people who pick our crops, and clean our office buildings, who labor in poultry farms and meat-packing plants. Who wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants, and work the night shifts in hospitals. They may not be citizens, or have the…
