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 proper documentation. But the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals. They pay taxes and are good neighbors, they are faithful members of our churches and mosques, synagogues, madara, and temples. I ask you to have mercy, Mr. President, on those in our communities whose children fear that their parents will be taken away. And that you help those fleeing war zones and persecution in their own lands, to find compassion and welcome here.
Our God teaches us that we are to be merciful to the stranger, for we were all once strangers in this land.
May God grant us the strength and courage to honor the dignity of every human being. To speak the truth to one another in love, and walk humbly with each other and our God for the good of all people. The good of all people in this nation and the world.
Amen.
We have not heard from Bishop Budde of late, but her denomination has let it be known that their vestments are in a wad. Why, you might ask? Because Trump has declared that white South African farmers, who are being murdered, ersecuted, and having their lands confiscated, can now be resettled into the United States as refugees.