In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.
Andy Warhol
It was a golden opportunity for Budde, a princess of a dying Protestant denomination. Trump showed up with his wife for the traditional post-inauguration prayer service at Washington National Cathedral, and thus, the couple was a captive audience for Budde’s self-righteous sermon.
These are my thoughts.
Second, I acknowledge that Bishop Budde might have acted courageously when she “spoke truth to power” at the National Cathedral. Nevertheless, it was highly inappropriate for her to embarrass the President in the manner that she did.
Budde’s denomination is on its last legs. Many lay Episcopalians have left the Episcopal Church because of the clergy’s sexual politics, with many choosing to become Roman Catholics. Budde’s self-indulgent prank will likely cause thousands more to leave.
I nominate the Jehovah’s Witnesses to serve the next term, followed by the Pentecostals. Both groups are theologically far apart from the Episcopalians, but I’ll bet church leaders in those groups know how to deliver a sermon without gratuitously embarrassing our President.
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