Woke 'Bishop' Unintentionally Reveals Her Real Agenda While Criticizing Trump on 'The View'

Woke 'Bishop' Unintentionally Reveals Her Real Agenda While Criticizing Trump on 'The View'

Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde, during an appearance on The View, inadvertently exposed her true motivation behind the rebuke she directed at President Donald Trump on Tuesday while he attended a "unity" service at the National Cathedral in Washington.

The Episcopal Diocese of Washington characterizes Budde as "an advocate and organizer in support of justice concerns, including racial equity, gun violence prevention, immigration reform, the full inclusion of LGBTQ+ persons, and the care of creation."

Given these positions, her views are likely the complete opposite of Trump's. In short, she is woke—and she took the opportunity to lecture the president on why he should be as well.

During Wednesday’s interview, The View co-host Joy Behar remarked, "You seem to have more fearlessness than anyone in Congress right now, ma’am. What made you decide to use that opportunity for this message and did you have any apprehension about it?"

Budde responded, "As I was pondering what are the foundations of unity, I wanted to emphasize respecting the honor and dignity of every human being."

"And so knowing that a lot of people, as I said, in our country right now are really scared, I wanted to take the opportunity in the context of that service for unity to say we need to treat everyone with dignity, and we need to be merciful," she continued.

"I was trying to counter the narrative that is so divisive and polarizing and in which people, real people, are being harmed," Budde stated.

However, a closer look at her remarks to Trump shows that she used the opportunity to express her disagreement with his stance on gender—rejecting the belief in only two, male and female—as well as his strict approach to enforcing immigration laws.

During Tuesday’s service, Budde declared, "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," she added.

"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, they may not be citizens or have the proper documentation," Budde stated.

The reality is that most Americans align with Trump—and basic common sense—when asserting that there are only two genders.

The Bible, which is the foundation of Christian doctrine, makes this clear from the very first chapter of Genesis: "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them."

Jesus himself reaffirmed this truth long after Genesis was written: "Have you not read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?"

If Budde was genuinely interested in delivering a message of unity regarding gender issues, these are the biblical passages she might have cited.

At least she referenced the Bible while addressing immigration, stating, "Our God teaches us that we are to be merciful to the stranger."

The book of Leviticus supports this principle: "When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. The stranger who sojourns with you shall be to you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God."

However, the term "sojourning" implies a temporary stay—not illegal entry with the intention of permanent residence. Additionally, biblical teachings affirm that those who commit crimes such as theft or murder should be held accountable.

This was not Budde’s first time taking aim at Trump.

In 2020, she authored an op-ed for The New York Times, expressing that she was "horrified" when Trump held up a Bible outside St. John’s Church after rioters attempted to burn it down following George Floyd’s death.

She asserted, "Mr. Trump used sacred symbols to cloak himself in the mantle of spiritual authority, while espousing positions antithetical to the Bible that he held in his hands."

If Budde is truly concerned about the misuse of religious symbols, she might want to take a long look in the mirror.

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