Episcopalian Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde made her media rounds today after she lectured President Donald Trump over immigration and sexuality at the National Prayer service.
Of course, she appeared on The View, where she justified politicizing her church:
SARA HAINES: Bishop predictably, you seem to strike a nerve. President Trump initially said yesterday, it was, quote, not a good service, unquote. But overnight, he took to social media to say you were a, quote, radical left hardline Trump hater, unquote, that you brought the church into politics and that you owe your church and the public an apology.Now, given your role, it doesn’t seem surprising that you would speak out for the marginalized as anyone who’s read the Bible and knows the path of Jesus. But do you think your message is being misconstrued and politicized?BUDDE: I mean, how could it not be politicized, right? We’re in a hyper political climate. One of the things I caution about is the culture of contempt in which we live, that immediately rushes to the worst possible interpretations of what people are saying and to put them in categories such as the ones you’ve just described. That’s part of the air we breathe now. And I was trying to speak a truth that I felt needed to be said, but to do it in as respectful and kind a way as I could, and also to bring other voices into the conversation, which voices that had not been heard in the public space for some time.
Go look and read Nicholas’s thread on Budde’s appearance. It’s so gross.
Here’s what Budde said yesterday:
In the name of our God, I ask you, to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender children in Democratic, Republican, and independent families. Some who fear for their lots.And the people…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 may not be citizens or have the proper documentation, but the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals. They pay taxes, and our good neighbors. They are faithful members of our churches and mosques, synagogues, wadara [sp?] and temples.
1. Okay, first of all, there is a difference between lecturing and politicizing, and speaking out for people.
The priests at my Catholic church constantly preach about helping the poor, especially during this bitter cold, but without politicizing the issue or condescending anyone.
Even when they do ask us to ask the government to do more on an issue, especially abortion, it’s not politicized or condescending.
(Don’t even get me started on Pope Francis, though. I’m lucky my church has wonderful priests.)
2. I want to know what Bible Haines reads because Budde’s lecture sounds nothing like Jesus. He did not politicize anything. He encouraged people to help each other.
3. I also want to know where Budde has been in the past decade. These people haven’t had a voice in the public space for a long time? So deluded.
4. Don’t forget that Budde gave this lecture before Melania Trump and Usha Vance.
Melania is an immigrant. Usha’s parents came here from India in the 1980s. All of them worked their butts off and did it the right way.
5. I would have asked Budde these questions: Does she think only illegal aliens perform those jobs? Does she think that they can only perform those jobs, nothing more?
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