Mariann Budde, the Bishop who presided over the inaugural prayer service at Washington’s National Cathedral Tuesday, disgraced the nation when she used a nonpartisan occasion of religious worship to deliver a left-wing diatribe to President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and their families.
After asking Trump to “have mercy” on “gay, lesbian and transgender children,” she went on to harangue him from the pulpit about his immigration policies, describing illegal aliens as “the people who pick our crops and clean our office buildings.”
Though Budde’s rant was wholly inappropriate to both the occasion and her office, it should have come as no surprise to White House staff, given her long history of left-wing activism. As the first woman to lead the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, Budde has routinely prioritized political matters over spiritual ones, staking out a…
