Photo: Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde
Donald Trump was forced Tuesday to sit through a sermon by a bishop begging him to have “mercy” on gays and poor immigrants as the Republican celebrated the start to his second term as US president, reports The Daily Mail.
Trump scowled as the Washington National Cathedral’s Mariann Edgar Budde pleaded the case from the pulpit for LGBT people and illegal migrants — two groups that Trump targeted with executive orders within hours of being sworn in on Monday.
“I ask you to have mercy, Mr President,” the bishop said softly, evoking the “fear” that she said is felt across the country.
“There are gay and lesbian and transgender children in Democratic, Republican and independent families,” she said.
“The people who pick our farms 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 may not be citizens or have the proper documentation,” she said.
“But the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals.”
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