Putting the Episcopal Church at risk.
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. --->READ MORE HERE
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None of the president’s policies put gay or trans lives at risk, so let’s call this toe-curling lecture what it was: liberal grandstanding
On Monday, Donald Trump informed the world that he’d been “saved by God” in order to “Make America Great Again”. Now, I’m no theologian, so I can’t say for certain whether this was indeed God’s plan.
Frankly, though, I think it makes a lot more sense than the risible twaddle that was subsequently spouted at Trump by an actual bishop.
On Tuesday, the president attended a service at the Washington National Cathedral. And astonishingly, one of the speakers – a female bishop named Mariann Edgar Budde – decided that this was the perfect opportunity to lecture Trump about his policies on trans rights and immigration.
“Let me make one final plea, Mr President,” she sniffed. “In the name of 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 lives…”
Sorry, what? If any children “fear for their lives” right now, it can only be because they’ve been listening to scaremongering propaganda from Left-wing activists. None of Trump’s policies put gay or trans people’s lives at risk.
And while we’re on the subject: could this bishop please clarify her position on gender ideology? Does she genuinely believe that some children are “born in the wrong body”? Because, if it’s the “wrong” body, that means God made a mistake. Does this bishop think God makes mistakes? And if so, does she tell Him this in her prayers?
“Dear God: whoops! Looks like You screwed up again, and put another little girl in the body of a little boy! I can’t believe You keep making this same dumb error! I thought You were meant to be infallible! You’d better pull Your finger out, or I’m going to start worshipping some other deity!”
Arguably, though, her comments on immigration were even more absurd. Some immigrants “may not be citizens or have the proper documentation”, she told the president, “but the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals”. --->READ MORE HERE
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