Mariann Budde, the bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, D.C., blasted President Trump for staging a visit to St. John's Church near the White House last night, the Yahoo News website reports today (June 2, 2020).
As Trump prepared to speak in the Rose Garden, police in riot gear and using tear gas, began violently removing peaceful protesters so that Trump could safely make it to the church where he posed for a photo outside the church while holding up a Bible.
"The president just used a Bible, the most sacred text of the Judeo-Christian religion, at one of the churches of my diocese without permission, as a backdrop for a message antithetical to the teachings of Jesus and everything that our churches stand for." Budde said. "I am outraged."
Budde wanted to make it clear that her diocese does not back the president's message. She added that following Jesus and His way of love do not back the president, since "we follow someone who lived a life of nonviolence and sacrificial love."
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