Americans are tired of lectures from woke ideologues for whom diversity, equity, and inclusion are more important than safety and truth.
Episcopalian bishop Mariann Budde asked President Donald Trump to have “mercy” on illegal immigrants and transgender people who are “scared” by his recent appointment. She said this amidst a sermon during this morning’s prayer service at the Washington National Cathedral.
“I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country that are scared now,” Budde said from the pulpit. “There are gay, lesbian, and transgender children in Democratic, Republican, and Independent families, some who fear for their lives.”
“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 might not be citizens or have the proper documentation,” she added. “The vast majority of immigrants are not criminals. I ask you to have mercy, Mr. President, on those in communities whose children fear that their parents will be taken away. Our God teaches us that we are to be merciful to the stranger, for we were all strangers once in land.”
Budde is the Episcopal bishop of Washington, D.C., and moonlights as a political activist. She said in an interview last year that she “loves” when the nearly 100 churches in her diocese “are reaching people and speaking from their lived experience. So when we speak about immigration, we’re talking from the experience of immigrants. When we’re speaking of LGBTQ and trans inclusion, we are congregations that have been walking that path with people since forever, taking the hard knocks from all that as we go and also the joys. When we deal with issues of gun violence prevention, we are not just talking about the issue abstractly.” She said during the same interview that Christians who believe supporting Donald Trump is “the right thing to do” “could not be more misguided.”
Trump was elected by Americans who are scared by illegal immigrant-fueled crime and cartels: Nearly 60 percent of voters, including a third of Democrats and nine in ten Republicans, support the mass deportation of illegal aliens, according to a poll conducted last year. American parents are scared that their daughters could be the next Laken Riley, a 22-year-old Georgia nursing student who was brutally murdered on a running trail by an illegal immigrant who had already been arrested and released by immigration authorities. American parents are worried that illegal immigrants could kidnap and rape their children, as was the case in Nantucket last year, when authorities arrested four illegal immigrants, all of whom were previously detained by or known to immigration authorities, for allegedly raping or sexually assaulting minors.
Americans are also terrified of men who masquerade as women in order to rape women in ladies’ locker rooms or spy on girls in women’s bathrooms. It’s not Trump’s job to cushion the blow of reality to people who, for decades, have denied biology, and it’s certainly not the job of a priest to deny God’s intentional creation of man and woman.
Americans are tired of lectures from woke ideologues for whom diversity, equity, and inclusion are more important than safety and truth.