Embedded above are the closing moments of an inauguration prayer directed toward Donald Trump, delivered by The Right Rev Mariann Edgar Budde, who is the Episcopal bishop of Washington.
Following the sermon, the president attacked Budde online, labelling her a “Radical Left hard line Trump hater” in a lengthy social media post early on Wednesday. He argued that she had “brought her church into the World of politics in a very ungracious way” and described her tone as “nasty”.Trump characterized the service as “boring” and “uninspiring”, and asserted that Budde and her church “owe the public an apology.”
Trump's allies joined in the criticism -
The Georgia representative Mike Collins suggested on social media that Budde “should be added to the deportation list”, while the Fox News host Sean Hannity called her a “so-called Bishop” who turned the service into a “woke tirade” and described her prayer “disgraceful” and filled with “fearmongering and division”.
Yes, because we should deport Americans who express standard Christian values and use them to criticize us. FFS.
Budde said an interview with the New York Times that she felt her sermon offered a “perspective that wasn’t getting a lot of airtime right now” and a perspective of Christianity “that has been kind of muted in the public arena”.“I wasn’t demanding anything of him. I was pleading with him, like, can you see the humanity of these people?
Following her sermon and the Trump response, the Episcopal Church as a whole has issued a "Statement on Creation Care," urging adherence to the Paris Agreement.
I'll leave comments open for a while, but if the thread devolves into a flame war, I'll close it.
There is a time to stand and speak the truth. She did what her faith called her to do. She will never regret that she took the opportunity to challenge those in the room to act in ways that are more Christlike.
ReplyDeleteI don't find the current wave of deportations against illegals particularly abhorrent to religious dogma, given the scope and impact of mass migration on the country. Don't confuse helping an individual directly yourself with forcing society as a whole to support a foreign population.
ReplyDeleteBy "scope and impact of mass migration on the country", do you you mean less white people? By "a foreign population", do you mean people from countries that the USA has wreaked havoc and violence upon?
ReplyDeletecolour me unsurprised that a most noncontroversial, most milquetoast christian sermon is enough to set off their horse manure fountains. (‘radical left’, ‘woke’, calls for deportation) none of the issues she spoke on ought to be even mildly disagreeable to anyone who calls themself a christian.
ReplyDeletehad she invoked a figure like bonhoeffer and his dictum that murder of a tyrant – even though an open transgression against the fifth commandment – is nevertheless justified in a christian ethic, i could at least have seen a reason for calling in question her taste and appropriateness, or accusing her of politicising. but this? their offense is more telling of their own lack of christianity.
raphael