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Today fewer than one percent of Americans belong to the Episcopal Church, the U.S. branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion. Nonetheless, although the Constitution forbids any establishment of religion, the Episcopal Church has always functioned as something of a quasi-established church in the United States, in large part because its mother church, the Church of England, was (and is) the established church in our mother country.
In the early years of American independence, membership in the Episcopal Church was a great deal more common than it is now. Presidents Washington, Madison, and Monroe were Episcopalians (Adams was a Unitarian, Jefferson a Deist), as were about three-quarters of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. After Washington’s first inauguration at Federal Hall in New York, which was then the nation’s capital, the entire inaugural party made its way to St. Paul’s Chapel at Broadway and Fulton Street for a worship service conducted by the Episcopal bishop of New York.
Built over a period of 83 years, from 1907 to 1990, the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., is a cathedral of the Episcopal Church, and plays a key ceremonial role for the nation’s leaders. Even though Jimmy Carter was (famously) a Baptist, his state funeral on January 9 was held there. Eleven days later, on the morning of the inauguration, Donald and Melania Trump attended a service at St. John’s Church, which is across Lafayette Square from the White House and which is also an Episcopal church, known as the “Church of Presidents.”
And on the day after the inauguration, the Trumps and Vances attended a special prayer service at the National Cathedral. It was there that the Episcopal Bishop of Washington, a woman named Marian Edgar Budde who looks like a 21st-century female Episcopal priest from Central Casting – slim, short-haired, smug – delivered what was apparently supposed to be a homily. Anyone who’s familiar with the Episcopal Church today wouldn’t have been terribly surprised by it. It was nakedly political – a public scolding of Trump for his (and the voters’) position on two of the most urgent issues of the day.
The first was transgenderism. “In the name of our God,” Budde preached at Trump, “I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our county who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender children…who fear for their lives.” OK, hold on there for a moment. First of all, gays and lesbians of whatever age have nothing whatsoever to fear from Trump. He’s the first president ever to enter office as a full supporter of same-sex marriage. Among the gays and lesbians whom he’s named to his new administration are Scott Bessent (treasury secretary), Ric Grenell (envoy for special missions), Tammy Bruce (State Department spokesperson), Jacob Helberg (undersecretary of state), Bill White (ambassador to Belgium), and Art Fisher (ambassador to Austria).
(Of course, the difference between Trump and Biden is that Biden picked people because they were gay, as illustrated by his selection of that knucklehead Pete Buttigieg as transportation secretary; Trump picks people because he thinks they’re the best ones for the job, whatever their sexual orientation.)
As for “gay and lesbian…children” – that is, children who, left to their own devices, would likely grow up to be gay and lesbian – if they have anything to fear, it’s not Trump; it’s the twisted parents, teachers, psychologists, and doctors who tell all too many of those children nowadays that they’re really members of the opposite sex. Such kids are then quickly set on a path of chemical and surgical transition that will destroy their reproductive capacity, scar them for life, and very likely cause them tormenting psychological and medical damage. In short, the whole trans grift is directly targeted at gays and lesbians. When knee-jerk progressives like Budde speak of “transgender children,” then, they’re supporting a colossally dangerous and profoundly antigay lie in the name of brain–dead political correctness.
The bishop’s other cause du jour was immigration. In what was clearly meant to be taken as a burst of compassionate eloquence, she urged Trump to be kind to “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.” As other observers have already pointed out, this way of perceiving immigrants, illegal or otherwise, is breathtakingly condescending – limousine leftism at its purest. (One is reminded of Kelly Osbourne’s notorious comment: “If you kick every Latino out of this country, then who is going to be cleaning your toilets, Donald Trump?”) To speak of people – any people – in the way the bishop did is not to lift them up but to pat them on the head like pets.
She went on to say about these menial workers that “they may not be citizens or have the proper documentation but the majority of immigrants are not criminals.” Maybe not, but a huge number of them are. Under the Biden administration they have been welcomed into the country for the most cynical of political reasons and have been transported, fed, and housed at taxpayer expense. The bishop referred to the children of those illegal immigrants who “fear that their parents will be taken away” by Trump. She made no mention of the huge number of children – nobody knows how many – who’ve been trafficked across the border and who’ve died or disappeared, experiencing God knows what fate. Nor did Budde mention the American citizens, such as Laken Riley, who’ve been killed by illegals. Where were the bishop’s words of compassion for them?
The bishop’s hectoring made headlines. In its wake she gave a self-serving interview to the harpies on The View and told CNN that her diatribe directed at Trump was a “conversation” with him (odd way to redefine the word “conversation”). Also, a video of a 2020 TV interview resurfaced. The occasion was a fire that had been set in the nursery of St. John’s Church by “anti-racism” protesters following the death of George Floyd. Incredibly, instead of criticizing the arsonists, Budde defended them, in effect, saying that she sympathized with their outrage over the “long string of violence against black and brown people” by police and “vigilante civilians” – i.e., the familiar left-wing fabrication. In addition, she issued a written statement criticizing President Trump. “The President just used a Bible and one of the churches of my diocese as a backdrop for a message antithetical to the teachings of Jesus and everything that our church stands for,” Budde complained. “To do so, he sanctioned the use of tear gas by police officers in riot gear to clear the church yard.”
As it happens, I’m an Episcopalian. I have Episcopalian ancestors (including clergymen) going back to the Church’s beginnings, but I didn’t join the Church myself until the late 1980s. I did so because I was strongly drawn to traditional Anglican theology – which I was first exposed to in a serious way by the person I lived with at the time, who worked as a verger at the aforementioned St. Paul’s Cathedral. (Among his duties was to unlock the chapel’s door and front gate in the morning and close them at night with huge, ancient-looking keys that he hung by the door of our apartment.)
Yes, Anglicanism began in an extremely worldly way: the Church of England divorced itself from the papacy because Henry VIII wanted to divorce his first wife and the Pope wouldn’t let him, period. But under Henry’s daughter Elizabeth I, modern Anglicanism began to take shape, and in an impressively modern way. Anglicanism, to put it simply, is a version of Christianity that emphasizes the mystery of faith over the demand that adherents profess to believe a long list of dogmatic statements. It respects authority even as it utterly repudiates the concept of human infallibility. And it rejects Biblical literalism while firmly respecting reason and the individual conscience. It also believes that the act of worship should be beautiful, marked by stirring ritual and magnificent music.
In a time when Europe was torn by armed conflict over recondite details of doctrine between the members of different Christian denominations, Queen Elizabeth I said that she had “no desire to make windows into men’s souls,” and ever since then Anglicanism has been a big tent in which the important thing is not that all the people in the pews have exactly the same take on this or that doctrine or exactly the same understanding of the nature of the spiritual realm, but that they all come together humbly and peacefully to worship their Creator.
Yes, as a gay man, I liked the fact that Episcopal clergy didn’t bang on about the sin of homosexuality. But by the same token I absolutely didn’t want to be celebrated in sermons – to be preached about patronizingly as a poor, woebegone member of a victim group. At the first church I belonged to, the rector was gay, but he would never have dreamed of mentioning it from the pulpit. That wasn’t what we were all there for – not remotely. We weren’t there to advertise our sexualities or share the alleged grievances of our identity groups or revel in our differences but to come together in faith, despite our differences, all of us sinful and all of us hoping for redemption.
To be sure, even at that time there were Episcopal churches in which the acceptance of gay parishioners had tipped over into celebration of their sexual orientation. This phenomenon made me uneasy at the time, although it could at least be defended as an effort to provide succor and sanctuary to people who were, back then, still subject to public abuse and discrimination. But there’s no longer any excuse for it. Being gay in America today is pretty much a non-issue, yet the Episcopal Church has become increasingly fixated on the subject; the whole thing has long since reached the point of absurdity. When I left the U.S. in 1998 I was already drifting away, rather wistfully, from Episcopalianism; in 1999 I settled in a country where there’s exactly one Anglican church, which I’ve walked past a hundred times but never set foot in.
Since then I’ve watched from afar, with great sadness, as the Episcopal Church has become less and less legitimately Anglican and more and more a place where people gather to engage with one another in insipid left-wing virtue signaling; the ranks of its bishops are filled with people like Budde for whom the only real gospel is the current Democratic Party line. What is deeply foolish about this woman is that she doesn’t seem to grasp that if the Episcopal Church has long had a role as America’s quasi-established church, it’s because historically it has been a big tent, where presidents who were Baptists or Presbyterians or Catholics could participate in services without being offended by the hymns, the readings, the sermons, or the rituals. By pulling that stupid stunt on the Trumps and Vances, Budde took a huge risk. I wouldn’t blame Trump, who’s made so many momentous decisions since taking office again, if he ordered that henceforth all religious services involving government leaders take place at houses of worship affiliated with denominations other than the Episcopal Church. If such a divorce between the federal government and the Episcopal Church ends up being Budde’s major legacy, it’ll mark a sad end to a 250-year period during which the Episcopal Church, despite its tiny numbers, served as a place where not only all Christians but all people of faith, as well as non-believers, could come together as Americans to recognize that, however we might define it, there’s something mysterious up there that’s bigger than all of us.
Revoke it’s tax status
No, the left want that done to all religions too much.
Actually they want it done to Christianity.
We both know flaming democrats fear islam, and as such, chronically avoid anything bringing it’s violence to their doorstep.
They’re happy to let islamic violence flouish in red neighborhoods. When a town in Idaho voiced their alarm at the voluminous rapes that accompanied the muslims dumped on ’em, Obama’s A.G. Loretta Lynch threatened to charge the town with “hate crimes” if they didn’t shut up about it.
Keep the government out of the business of the Church. Let God deal with the apostate.
Nope, this stuff has to have a cost or it won’t stop.
The cost should be that Trump, like an insulted customer in a store, takes his trade elswhere. There are plenty of Churches in Washington.
she/her embarrassed us
Hmm, even the gays are sad that the mystery that that “church” points too is as vapid and sterile as gay sex.
At least if the church celebrated porno, its leaders would not have the sexual attraction of a stick in vestments.
Well said. As an episcopalian myself I am ashamed and saddened by this so called priest of Christ.
Amen. Great article
The Episcopal Church in the USA has been dying a slow death a long time from the disease of liberalism. I knew a dozen priests and rectors of the Church sixty years ago. The people I knew then were veddy veddy “High Church Anglo Catholics,” We had many talks about the slight theological differences between Roman and Anglican Churches, and one of them was the small-l liberalism of High Church Anglicans. An important difference was political. Roman faithful were conservative, as conservative as glory-filled Holy Rollers.
I prefer the glory-filled Holy Rollers
over the glory-holing Frilly Trollers,
of which this bitch is one.
I think almost all of the old school Christian denominations have gone woke and insane. Some Baptist churches are the exception. Coral Ridge Presbyterian church in Florida is another exception. The true Christian churches today that actually preach the Bible are the independent churches, like the ones on tv that were founded by David Jeremiah, John Hagee, Jack Hibbs, Rodney Howard-Browne, Kenneth Copeland, Jentzen Franklin, and some others.
There was a time when the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America was a religious body with Christian doctrine and some fidelity to the Holy Bible. Although the congregations seldom heard about the prophecy of Christ that fills the Old Testament, many of the pulpits spread the message of redemption by faith, and faith by hearing the Word.
In the 1970s, that organization cast off from Biblical truth in an attempt at modernity, and both the Book of Common Prayer and the Hymnal were revised to eviscerate any mention of man or mankind and to “broaden the appeal” of the liturgy. In so doing, it alienated its faithful and weakened its already flaccid evangelism.
Now the denomination has female priests and bishops, directly contradicting the instructions of the apostles, and has prelates and ministers who embrace sin to succor sinners, without any effort to show them God’s law and lead them to repentance. The social component of being an Episcopalian, which supported the denomination through the post-World War II era, flagged in the 1960s and 1970s, has returned with the psychopathic social norms of the “liberal” American culture of sexual perversion, victimhood, and limousine liberalism of our age.
When the mission of the denomination had been coopted, the organization renamed itself The Episcopal Church, and traditional Anglicans walked away. Only the Diocese of Fort Worth (Texas) retained its assets and identity as Episcopal and traditional. The rest of TEC is a compendium of fallen doctrine and lost souls. May God have mercy on them.
The Episcopal Church, you say, “is a compendium of fallen doctrine and lost souls. May God have mercy on them.” Amen.
I have attended many churches and synagogues in my life because I’m curious and like variety. At the same time, I believe in the traditions of Christianity and Judaism, as principles of the universe. When I first noticed these institutions changing as was mentioned in your comments I no longer had the level of respect for the ones who fell astray.
I am fortunate to have a church and a synagogue who revels in the Word in my big city, but it took us 10 years to find them. Unfortunately, there are people who live alternative lifestyles who want to reform the church, instead of the church reforming them or starting one of their own if that’s possible..
I don’t cares if someone is gay or straight. I do not force or coerce my belief systems on people and unless there is illegal activity, this is part of the American experiment. Churches/synagogues should not accommodate the wayward fleeting whims of the people if it’s not in their doctrines. Instead, people should use these institutions to affirm their ideals for a better life and make adjustments if that better life is not happening for them. People should be careful what they ask for as they just might get it.
How many refugees does she have living in her house?
The hypocrite shares the same mindset as those in Martha’s Vineyard – not dumped in her space; only ours.
A transgender child is an abused child.
Marian Edgar Budde’s last words will be “…why is it so hot here?…”
Or cold, I suspect it would be what an individual fears and hates the most.
You’re right. An innocemt, suggestable, bombarded with propaganda ABUSED cjild
Seeing as how the Episcopal Church has now publicly (and perhaps officially) stated nakedly political positions, it would seem that its status as a tax-exempt organization should be reviewed.
The government has a burning desire to control churches as it is, please don’t invite them in. She and her ilk are no threat to the real Church of Christ.
“Isn’t it ironic that Leftist Vampires, who always cringe at the sight of a Crucifix, love this Bishop?” sc (And this pOPE.)
You know who really lives in fear…. JEWS and MAGAS! Both are now targets especially on college campuses while the DEI CZARS actually side with the MOBS! The purpose of DEI is that everyone is welcome, but today, A Yarmulke and a Red Hat set off physical attacks, doxxing, firings, and lower grades, from those who demand Tolerance and to Stop the Hate and who wear a Keffiyeh in support of TERRORISTS who would gladly decapitate all of these Dupes and Dopes!
“MILLIONS have Pride for those coming out of The Closet, while those same millions make others run into one!” sc
Strange that the same people who demand Gay Rights, and to not be harassed, are the same ones who attack Jews and MAGAS and now they’re hiding in fear of being outed!
Well said.
Leftist fools project their malevolence chronically on conservatives. As such, hoaxes flourish.
Several islamic leftists claimed MAGA had violently tore off their hijabs.
All proven lies (but repeated none the less).
In reality, it was Trump supporters getting their caps snatched away with impunity & attacked; usually having drinks thrown on ’em.
So sustained were the attacks (Tomi Lauren & Ted Cruz most notable), that news accounts began to resonate.
Democrats schemed for a diversion & the scheme was simple. They mailed “fake bombs” to themselves in October of 2018.
It allowed the compliant DNC press to smear Trump supporters & drop all coverage of leftist attacks on them . . . all conveniently in time for the November election cycle.
Lackluster actor Jussie Smollet apparently liked the transparent hoax, and chose to manufacture his own 3 months later.
Not to forget the “noose” that was a garage door handle. I’m also confident that the 2021 pipe bomb planted near DNC hq will prove to have originated by a, most likely, corrupt FBI asset. There is so much racism on the right that–they have to make it up and invent hoaxes because the real thing is virtually nonexistent and far, far less seen than the hate and attacks going the other way..
Great reminder on another Hoax but more noose incidents all faked by the far-left which then results in near riots.
Here in Albuquerque and the University of NM, two Muslim females entered the main library, all silent, and they claimed a male student from their math class pulled on one of their scarves. As we all know, every student is looking at their monitor and the cell phone at the same time, meaning they’re ready for the Viral Video to become famous. NOT ONE WITNESS but the two filed a complaint with the DEI CZAR, ASSATA ZERAI, only makes $262,000 and has four aides. She’s a Black activist with a radical past. It was headline news, but something strange, there were other incidents just like it at other universities… so all planned!
After a few weeks, I went to UNM PD to ask for the Police report and none was filed. WHY NOT??? BECAUSE THE PD WOULD INVESTIGATE AND THEY WOULD DISCOVER THEY FILED A FALSE POLICE REPORT then they’d be in trouble. Then no follow-up by the college newspaper, no name of the male student, what his penalty was, NADA!
These hoaxes need to be labeled a crime since they incite violence and hatred.
The Mob set up an encampment to support Hamas last spring. A group of them took over the Student Union but were removed in the middle of the night. They caused $40,000 in damages, sixteen arrests, but all cases dismissed with their attorney being Ahmad Assed, the President of the Islamic Center NM and who organized a protest in SUPPORT OF HAMAS over a decade ago. The ACLU is now suing the State Police and UNM for “excessive force” and they’ll win because they’re all Democrats. in the Justice System. Even the cockroaches are Democrats!
Excellent detailed post.
More than a few books would be needed to document the brazenly recurrent frauds/hoaxes manufactured against conservatives.
(The biggest & most hideous done on Jan 6th by our own gov’t.)
“Foolish LADY Bishop Versus Trump?” Aren’t you mis-gendering the bulldyke?
This lady Bishop has no inkling of the hornets nest she just kicked over.
The biggest controversy here should be this Bishop vs. God. She has so much to say about LGBT rights and yet not one word about what the Bible says about it. The degenerate celebration and pride in these perversions is unfortunate.
And people wonder why church attendance has fallen off. This “bishop” should be put in the box with the rest of the chess pieces that have nothing to do with religious doctrine. This one, in particular, should first be demoted to “pawn”.
She’s on a mission to become the newest darling of the legacy media because she hates Trump. When does she don, literally, the mantle of the pride flag? Almost every Episcopal church in the NE has a pride flag out in front, and a BLM sign on the front lawn.
Pride is one of the deadly sins… you would think the lady bishop would know that.
She was called brave, yet there was nothing courageous in what she pulled.
She’s hoping to get a “Speaking Truth to Power” award or a key to a city. She saw the lavish celebrity poured over previous accusers (Christine Blassey Ford, Stormy Daniels, etc) and wants some of it.
Hopefully her 15 minutes ended with The View.
(Trump needs to fire whichever staff member failed to vet the narcissist.) Seriously? Wasn’t brain surgeon & reverend Ben Carson available?
I don’t know if Trump’s staff could be held responsible for this ambush. Maybe there was a meeting, beforehand, about the nature of her “sermon” and they were assured it was “typical”., .or a copy of her remarks was submitted for review. Or, maybe, they just assumed it would be “religious” in nature and not political. Either way, the bishop was not bound by her faith but by her politics and how could anyone know what she would say once she took to the lectern? The words that come out of her mouth cannot be blamed on anyone but her.
Amen & Bravo! As a gay conservative man in my mid-50s, baptized CofE and confirmed in the ECUSA, I can relate to everything you’ve written.
Thank you. This means a lot to me.
Conserving homosexuality, that’s a new twist on conservatism.
Don’t know if Bruce would be interested, but it would be cool if the Trumps incited him to the white house for tea. Might bring more awareness of all his great books, too.
One used to see articles about how the Anglican church in Africa was thriving, and maintaining the traditional beliefs and rituals. I wonder if that is still the case?
She is a rude jerk. If Budde had personal issues with the President, she could have eastly asked to speak with him privately. But no, she had to make a scene and lecture him publicly. President Trump showed class and did not just stand up and walk out. . Turns the National Prayer Service into the National Demonize Trump Service. Surprised she did not attempt an exorcism on him to put on a really big spectacle. She is a rude jerk.
Of course you can expect the M.S. Media Lap-Dogs to want her on their Daily Fake News Programs like TODAY. GMA.SUNDAY MORNING 60 MINUTES Etc.
We know that church is apostate, otherwise it would not have a female in the pulpit preaching. The Bible specifically prohibits women from such roles in the Church of Christ. That is one way to tell a denomination or a specific congregation is apostate.
Satan has her wrapped up and she is leading her flock straight into and through the gates of hell.
This is a good reason why. Trump is much more tolerant of the insufferable. I would not have attended in the first place and would have stood up and left when a female appeared in the pulpit, I realize Trump can not always act like he wants,
We have seen Trump insulted and demeaned numerous times. I, for one, wouldn’t have been able to hold my tongue or be retaliatory in the face of such disrespect. But he doesn’t react or respond. He ignores it, while perhaps seething inside, knowing all this comes from the people he has defeated. His silence projects the strength they no longer possess and that pisses them off more than anything.
Is this “Lady” really a “Tranny”? It’s hard to tell. One thing for sure, “Women” have no Biblical Authorization to be in the “Pulpit”, preaching ANYTHING, let alone “advising/correcting” a man. “But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.” 1 Timothy 2:12 KJV. And the “National Cathedral”? Can’t the Washington “Jefatura” find a Christ Believing/Bible preaching Church in the D.C. area? No “Calvary Chapels” in D.C. that can handle “Official Prayers” of the Government?
Budde has chosen the master she will serve and it’s quite evident it’s not the one in whose name she was ordained.
Trump and the transition team is doing great- batting .998 so far, but that .002 was having that preacher in that church giving a sermon. Female ‘bishop;? nah, sorry, I know I’m all patriarchal here, but nah. They should have known better, and they’ll do their due diligence next time a preacher is called up to the podium, I’m sure.
the episcopal [ aka ] church of england hasnt been a church for a century even less now with the woke theology that has been delivered from its pulpit both in england and the u.s. . it no longer holds to the bibles original laws , and commandments . GOD has now removed its lampstand rev. ch. 2 . judgement will first fall on the church then the world . when woe is pronounced , and it has . the world is in for a rough time . california is but a wake up call for the rest of us . time to get you house in order , repent while you can . we will all die , some sooner than expected some later than you could hope . the world is a dangerous place and becoming more so as the days pass . D.C. doesnt have a church , its just a meeting hall where anything goes .
The Episcopalean church is about as Christian as Islam.
The Bible specifically prohibits women preaching. So, this person is neither a preacher nor a Christian and she is leading her ‘flock’ down the wide path to Hell.
Just exactly where does the Biblevforbid women preaching?
1 Timothy 2:12 “But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.” KJV
I wouldn’t ban the Episcopalian Church, I just wouldn’t require a sermon from it. I’d go pray there, but endure a harrange from a marx worshipping leftist, no. She was okay with blm burning down her Church, just not with Trump using tear gas and force to run the arsons off. She had no problem with flash bangs, batons, or even live rounds against unarmed women on Jan6. I suspect she’s in for a rude awakening after her existence on this earth.
The Episcopal Church USA is among if not the most liberal Episcopal Church in the world. It has become mostly apostate to the extent the many former US Episcopal Churches have left the main body and have chosen it’s African equivalent which is much more conservative and faithful to Scripture.
ELCA. My mother’s “church” held multi-week classes on islam and the tolerance and the deference lutherans should give muslims. Yet, there was no one to visit their congregate shut-ins, like her. Or offer a ride to Bible study Tuesday mornings.
Caps deliberately omitted.
Very interesting history on the Episcopalian Church. Born of politicks and, it appears, dying of the same. The foolish lady Bishop is in common with the Pope in their criticism of Trumps immigration policy. This is compassion without responsibility. Whether it be a delusion or simply hypocrisy it reeks of dishonesty. The walls of the Vatican were built to protect the city against the marauders of Islam which they successfully did. The walls around the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople were not successful and the result was a massacre,
And Hagia Sofia (aka Holy Wisdom) in Istanbul, Turkey, once the largest church in Christendom, has recently turned from serving as a museum, back into an active mosque. Christianity was overcome when the Ottoman Turks entered the city in 1453. A few Christian, mostly Orthodox, churches struggled to survive at the sufferance of the Muslim rulers ever since.
As a Quaker, I would not – in good conscience – set foot in an Anglican church, since the “protestantism” underpinning the Society of Friends, is to protest the Anglican church. It sold it’s soul and accepted an earthly “head” long ago, whereas the worldwide “Christian” church, as followers of Jesus Christ, needs look to no other than Him for headship. Biship Budde is not a disgrace so much as she is just another in a line going back centuries.
Bishop Budde made a serious miscalculation in using her pulpit to conduct a sanctimonious and condescending homily to lecture President Trump and Vice President Vance on sexual orientation and gender identity politics, especially illegal immigration, grandstanding Democrat and the progressive lefts open borders narratives and talking points. She is a sterling example as to why all of God’s religions have not been able to put humanity back together again.
FOOLISH Lady Bishop..👍🏼Ditto.😏
Attempting the shame the sitting president BACKFIRED, spectacularly.
Plus the AMERICAN PEOPLE spoke on Nov 5…
Get a clue, lady.
Mr. Bawer, I think you mean your friend worked as a verger at St. Paul’s CHAPEL, not St. Paul’s CATHEDRAL.. I design my own needlepoint canvases. I did an embroidery of tiny, frail, St. Paul’s Chapel, standing triumphant against the fallimg Twin Towers, for a Christian friend who was downtown on that day. She watched the towers fall, from a window in her office. She told me “G-d can forgive them. I don’t have to.” My brother worked in the Wall Street area, and he told me what it was like to pass the burning ruins, day after day
There was terrible religious persecution in Anglican England, Mr. Bawer, and hideous persecution of Catholics under Elizabeth I. Why do you think the Separitist Puritans went, first to Holland, then to Massachusetts, and the Quakers wemt to Philadelphia? Remember the Gordon Riots, the basis for Dickens’s novel, Barnaby Rudge? Catholics didn’t obtain (nearly) full emancipation untiln 1829.
One of Trump’s biggest weaknesses is putting the wrong people in the wrong positions and giving them the power to hurt him by making bad things like this happen. The solution is for Trump to control his organization better, not to repeal the First Amendment. Bishop Budde had the right to say whatever she wanted to say. The issue is, How did she get placed in that slot so she had the opportunity, and the ability, to do the damage she did? Someone dropped the ball. Trump needs to find out who and fire them.
I would encourage you to look at AnglicanCatholic.org. There are parishes all over the world. These denominations formed in the late 70s, breaking away from the episcopal church. Blessings.
Mr Bawer, Thomas Jefferson was not a deist. Go read Jefferson’s words on his Memorial in D.C. Better yet, read the “Jefferson Lies” by David Barton. I’m surprised and disappointed a Shillman Fellow would make such a grevious and dumb error! You’ve read and believe to much revisionist history!
The Village People dancing and singing YMCA alongside Trump on Stage must have been feeling fearful.
Snoop Doggie Dude was Rapping away on Stage and I guess he was calling Trump a racist.
All those smart beautiful females in this new Administration is because Trump is a sexist.
Gay people as USA Ambassadors in foreign countries means he must be practicing DEI rather than merit.
So does this wee Lesbian she/her/they/it… mean that only Spanish speaking people are good for cleaning her toilets and when did illegals pay Taxes..
How patronizing and pandering can a person get openly and think ts okay?.
Not a trick question.
It truly is a disgrace that this ”person”is a Bishop and that she/her/they/It stood there and spewed such garbage..