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.”
She has long been intolerant of any who have not supported the “LGBTQ” agenda. In February 2021 Budde issued a public apology for allowing popular evangelical pastor Max Lucado to preach at National Cathedral, even though Budde had nothing...