What do you get with a twice elected president, enduring a “sermon” by a woke bishop ? You get a woke National Prayer Service.
For decades, the tradition in Washington DC has the newly inaugurated president attending the National Prayer Service.
Forget about prayers in the name of Jesus for the country and the President. This year, President Trump instead got a lecture on mercy for LGBTQ and illegal immigrants.
Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde, the Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington DC and the first woman to hold the position, took the last two minutes of her “sermon” pleading for Trump to have “mercy” on the LGBTQ community and illegal immigrants frightened by his re-election. Watch:
I have to give President Trump credit for not walking out of the service . That’s the first thing I would have done.
No, Bishop Budde, if the rainbow crowd is scared, it’s because leftists like you are fanning the flames.
No doubt the First and Second family were blindsided by this shameful sermon. Nothing like expecting Biblical truth and getting Democrat talking points in its place. The question is how did Trump’s team not anticipate the likely message from this leftist?
The Episcopalian Church may profess believing in and following the teachings of Jesus Christ, but they have shoehorned the Savior of the World into the gospel of leftist politics and culture.
The President’s team definitely should have screened this clergyperson, especially since the Episcopalian Church is highly political.
This denomination has fractured in recent years because of pedal- to-the- metal support of ordaining homosexual clergy, officiating same-sex marriage and supporting abortion rights. Diversity and inclusion are its tenets, not repentance of sin and surrender to Christ as Lord and Savior . Budde’s diatribe brings to mind 2 Peter 2:1 (NKJV):
But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction.
Perhaps clergy like her are why the Bible prohibits females as pastors, as the Apostle Paul said in 1 Tim. 2:12:
And I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man, but to be in silence.
A reporter tried to play gotcha after the service only to have President Trump turn the tables. Watch:
Where was scripture in this sermon? Sure, Budde mentioned God, but only as a cudgel in her attempt to shame President Trump.
Budde’s lecture is , of course viral. Yes, she has plenty of supporters, but also many detractors.
Trump is demanding an apology, rightly so. Budde told NPR Wednesday she refuses to apologize.
In my research, I discovered the National Cathedral is part of the Episcopal Church. Because of the liberal politics of the denomination which I detailed earlier, President Trump would do well to simply boycott all services at the National Cathedral and designate another more Biblically sound church for national prayer and services.
