President Donald Trump wasted no time ripping into the “so-called bishop” on Tuesday who he accused — correctly — of politicizing the National Prayer Service by getting up at the pulpit — which, biblically, a woman is forbidden to do — and asking him to “have mercy” on “transgender children” and illegal immigrants. This is what happens when a “church” abandons Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition, interpreting the Bible completely on its own with essentially zero accountability. You get nuttiness like this preached to the masses, leading people’s souls astray and right into hell.
The response from the president was to a message delivered by Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde, who stated that illegal immigrants are terrified due to Trump being the commander-in-chief. As we’re all well aware by now, the president has promised a massive deportation project along with building a wall along the southern border.
“The so-called Bishop who spoke at the National Prayer Service on Tuesday morning was a Radical Left hard line Trump hater. She brought her church into the World of politics in a very ungracious way. She was nasty in tone, and not compelling or smart,” Trump stated on Truth Social in a post published late on Tuesday night.
The “bishop” said during the sermon,“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 are good neighbors. They are faithful members of our churches.”
“I ask you to have mercy, Mr. President, on those in our communities whose children fear that their parents will be taken away, and that you help those who are fleeing war zones and persecution in their own lands, to find compassion and welcome here,” she added.
Here’s more from The Daily Wire:
Trump responded to Budde’s lecture by saying that she was ignoring the number of illegal immigrants who had killed American citizens.
“She failed to mention the large number of illegal migrants that came into our Country and killed people. Many were deposited from jails and mental institutions,” he said. “It is a giant crime wave that is taking place in the USA. Apart from her inappropriate statements, the service was a very boring and uninspiring one. She is not very good at her job! She and her church owe the public an apology!”
Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration has begun as he declared an emergency at the border, designated drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, and shut down the CBP One App parole program.
Budde has a history of criticizing Trump and blasted him years ago after he used riot police to clear leftist protestors out of the area surrounding the White House, even saying that his message was “antithetical to the teachings of Jesus and everything that we as a church stand for.”
It is not unmerciful to actually enforce just laws, which is what deportation is. A just law finally, after four years, being enforced. Those who have entered the nation illegally should be sent back to their country of origin. Come through the front door, not the back window.
Secondly, it is not merciful to indulge a child’s mental illness or delusions. It’s not merciful to push them into getting gender transition surgery or filling them up with hormones. They cannot ever be a different gender. Your DNA is signed, sealed, and delivered from birth. Teaching them to love and accept themselves would be showing mercy.
Someone remove this woman from church leadership.