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Episcopalians abandoned God and rational thought in favour of toxic empathy a long time ago.

The first person to take issue with Donald Trump’s insistence that there are only two genders was an Episcopalian priest. Of course.

Bishop Marianne Budde used her Washington pulpit, tilted to the left, to berate the President for — of all things — agreeing with Moses.

After all, it was Moses who wrote in the Torah that:

“God created man in His image, male and female He created them.”

So riddle me this. How were Trump’s words much different?

Just 24 hours earlier, Trump had said,

“As of today it will henceforth bye the official position of the US government that there are only two genders — male and female.”

You really do have to feel for Trump.

It’s pretty tough when you can’t even agree with the Holy Scriptures without upsetting church ministers.

Heresy

The fact is that Episcopalians don’t have an issue with Trump; they have an issue with the Bible.

The church came out in support of same-sex marriage back in 2015, ordained its first gay priest in 2003, and approved the ordination of transgender priests in 2012.

In 2018, the church committed to oppose all legislation that restricts men identifying as women from accessing female restrooms, locker rooms and showers.

I expect they’ll be re-crucifying Jesus sometime next week.

Like I said, Trump shouldn’t feel special. The Episcopalians hated Jesus long before Trump Derangement Syndrome took hold of the church.

Judas addressed Trump directly during her sermon, telling him,

“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.”

But why are trans people afraid of Trump?

Were they rounded up and sent to camps during his first presidency?

She continued,

“I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country that are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender children in Democratic, Republican, and Independent families, some who fear for their lives.”

One might have thought the church would regard “mercy” for children suffering from a mental condition known as gender dysphoria as not subjecting them to irreversible medication and surgery.

But the Episcopalians abandoned God and rational thought (but I repeat myself) in favour of toxic empathy a long time ago.

Illegals

Reverend Budde also asked Mr Trump to have mercy on illegal immigrants, saying the vast majority were not criminals.

Read that again slowly and see if you can spot the problem.

She said,

“The people who pick our crops, and clean our office buildings, who labour in poultry farms and meat packing plants, who wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants, and work the night shifts in hospitals, they might not be citizens or have the proper documentation.”

God forbid we have no one left to pick our crops now that we can’t do slavery anymore.

When asked by reporters what Trump thought of the service, he replied:

“Not too exciting, was it? I didn’t think it was a good service. They could do much better.”

Amen.

As for Bishop Budde… she should run for Congress at the next election. She has no place in the church.

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Republished with thanks to The James Macpherson Report.

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