WATCH: 'Have mercy' on LGBTQ+ communities and immigrants, Episcopal bishop asks Trump | PBS News
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Politics Jan 21, 2025 2:47 PM EST
With President Donald Trump in attendance, the Right Rev. Mariann Budde, the Episcopal bishop of Washington, gave a sermon at a prayer service Tuesday morning at Washington National Cathedral focused on national unity.
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She said they gathered "to pray for unity as a people and a nation — not for agreement, political or otherwise — but for the kind of unity that fosters community across diversity and division."
Watch the full prayer service below.
She ended her sermon with a direct appeal to Trump, to have mercy on LGBTQ+ people and undocumented migrant workers: "You have felt the providential hand of a loving God. In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy on the people in our country who are scared now."
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Budde has criticized Trump before, rebuking his "racialized rhetoric" and blaming him for inciting violence on Jan. 6. She was " outraged " in 2020 after Trump staged an appearance in front of St. John's Episcopal Church. He held up a Bible after the area had been cleared of peaceful protesters.
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A Christian appeal for love, compassion, and mercy. But is anyone in the White House capable of acting that way?
If there is, my guess is that they will soon no longer be in the White House.
Sure, if it makes a profit.
trump doesn't need that religious bullshit to avoid paying any taxes now ...
There is no profit in ‘’mercy’’..
I beg to differ.
Good old Rudy, he isn’t even a good con man but point taken, there is profit in mercy if your a crooked SOB.
Was she seriously thinking this would do anything but piss him off? Of course he attacked her in the media afterwards. He is predictable as the sunrise, and clergy won’t be respected by him unless they agree with him. He believes he is the king and this woman just added fuel to a fire.