The reverend at the inauguration prayer service at the National Cathedral, Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde urged President Donald Trump to show compassion for immigrant families and transgender children in her sermon on Tuesday.
The Episcopal bishop of Washington, the Right Rev Mariann Budde spoke during a national unity-focused prayer service Tuesday morning at Washington National Cathedral.
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In attendance was President Donald Trump.
Budde said to Trump, who was sitting in the first pew, that millions of Americans have “put their trust in you” before making her plea to the president.
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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.”
“I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared. There are gay, lesbian, transgender children, Democratic, Republican, independent families — some who fear for their lives,” she said.
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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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She added, “The people who pick our crops and clean our office buildings, who labor in poultry farms and meatpacking 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.”
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