Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde delivered a sermon calling for mercy on people who are scared. The new president was in the audience.
Here’s what she said:
“Let me make one final plea, Mr. President. Millions have put their trust in you, and as you told the nation yesterday, you have felt the providential hand of a loving God. 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 lives. 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. They pay taxes and are good neighbors. They are faithful members of our churches and mosques, synagogues, gurdwara, and temples.
I ask you to have mercy, Mr. President, on those in our communities whose children fear 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. Our God teaches us that we are to be merciful to the stranger, for we were all once strangers in this land. May God grant us the strength and courage to honor the dignity of every human being, to speak the truth to one another in love, and walk humbly with each other and our God, for the good of all people — the good of all people in this nation and the world. Amen.”
They now want to deport her for hurting his feelings.
Link to the stupidity
Damn that’s actually the good outcome. Idk, maybe I’m just expecting the worst, but I was expecting them to put her on a hit list. When I saw her speak, I thought it seemed like a historic moment.
She looked them all in the eyes and said what all rational people are feeling. She did it with far more compassion than any of them deserved, too.
Is it off the table, though?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c035zqe7lgro
It’s rather absurd that people get surprised when religious leaders are compassionate. But that’s the world we live in!
….on what grounds do they want to deport her? lol.
Also, love the clown calling her a ‘hard left liberal’ for preaching mercy. You know, that thing that’s in the gospel?
I mean the Gospel also says it’s easier to put a camel through the eye of a sowing needle than for any rich person to not be justly suffer eternal torture for what they chose to do to others with their limited time on Earth. So if they think this is a hard left liberal just wait until one of these propagandists actually reads the Bible and all it’s talk about unconditional love, support, and liberation.