On Wednesday, ABC’s Good Morning America and CBS Mornings fawned over the far, far, far-left Episcopal Church and Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde using a Tuesday prayer service at the National Cathedral to deliver a progressive scolding disguised as a sermon about God’s Word and prayer over President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance.
Chief White House correspondent and former Biden regime apple polisher Mary Bruce lamented Trump was “moving swiftly and aggressively to enact his agenda, including his promised crackdown on immigration,” but cheered that “his efforts are already being challenged in court” thanks to a hearing tomorrow in a Seattle federal court.
Bruce played the heartstrings card: “Trump has promised historic mass deportation. His administration revoking a policy that barred arrests in sensitive areas like schools and churches.”
Following a soundbite of an anonymous Denver Public Schools principal (who appeared on-camera, but wouldn’t give her name out of fear for her safety), Bruce gushed over Budde: “And at Washington’s National Cathedral yesterday, with Trump there in the pews, Mariane Budde, the bishop of Washington, confronting him on his immigration crackdown.”
The slow-speaking Budde was given two lengthy soundbites from her scolding, focusing on what she believes should be the protection of illegal immigrants writ large:
BUDDE: 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, but the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals. They pay taxes and are good neighbors.
BRUCE: — making a plea to the President.
BUDDE: I ask you to have mercy, Mr. President, on those in our communities whose children fear that their parents will be taken away. And that you help those fleeing war zones in 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 the land.
Bruce scoffed that Trump was unhappy: “But that didn’t sit well with the President, overnight calling the bishop ‘a Radical Left hard line Trump hater,’ saying her ‘statements’ were ‘inappropriate.’”
The CBS Mornings mention came as part of a segment giving a wider summary of Trump’s executive orders.
Shortly after mentioning “new directive...released by the Department of Homeland Security” that “reversed a Biden-era policy prohibiting deportation agents from making arrests at sensitive locations like schools or churches,” chief White House correspondent Nancy Cordes touted “the bishop of the Washington National Cathedral [making] this pointed appeal to Trump face-to-face.”
Cordes then had a smaller clip of Budde aired (compared to Bruce: “I ask you to have mercy, Mr. President, on those in our communities whose children fear that their parents will be taken away.”
Cordes told viewers that Trump was not “move[d]” by “the sermon” with Trump himself telling reporters he “didn’t think it was a great service” and the Cathedral “could [have done] much better.”
Cordes, like Bruce, concluded with the Truth Social post, but took note of the part in which he “accused her of using a ‘nasty tone.’”
If the Episcopal Church was so brave, vibrant, and, most importantly, true to God’s teachings, it’s doubtful that, by their own projections, their membership numbers will decline by 98 percent come 2041. It makes sense when you’re median age is 69 years old.
It’s own news service wrote this about its membership:
The topline numbers continue to show a church experiencing gradual long-term membership decline, much like other mainline Protestant denominations. The Episcopal Church’s tally of baptized members dropped just below 1.6 million in 2022, down 21% from 2013....The church recorded an even sharper drop in average Sunday attendance in the past decade, down 43% to 373,000 in 2022.
So, for all the liberal media adulations, this once proud Protestant denomination will continue to wither and congregations will shutter because they’ve chosen a choose-your-own-adventure “religion” instead of following God and His timeless Word.
To see the relevant January 22 transcripts, click here (for ABC) and here (for CBS).
