Every word Budde said is the truth:Yes, she exercised her 1st Amendment right to make a jackass out of herself on the national stage. Good for her. Its her way of thinking that swept her target right into the White House. My 1st cousin, a Lutheran Minister, and a HUGE Biden/Harris supporter told me last night how embarrassed he was at Budde making her political beliefs more important than anything else going on in this country.
"Let me make one final plea, Mr. President," Bishop Mariann Budde said in her 15-minute sermon. "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," said Budde, as she appeared to look towards the president.
"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 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," said Budde.
Towards the end of her sermon Budde said, "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 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."