"She didn’t have to look to the Democratic candidates’ platform or what the talking point was to come up with some kind of rhetoric. She was drawing from a deeper well."

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"The corporations were on our side last time—now, even they’re showing up at the inauguration. And it took a little woman, Bishop Budde, at the Washington National Cathedral, and all of a sudden, ‘Oh, there is something that could be said in this moment!' She was drawing from sources that went beyond whatever the short-term political calculus was."

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"In the week that Trump was inaugurated, there was one person in this country who had anything worthy, notable, substantive to say. It was very hard to find a Democratic elected official—who’s supposed to be leading the charge—who had something really potent to say. People were scattered. They didn’t know what to do."

~ Michael Wear

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https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/what-do-liberalism-and-religion-owe

"Pope Leo, Rev. Budde, and Pastor Bryant showed us that true faith leaders do not oppress or demonize others and certainly do not deify a noxious politician (one whose conduct and rhetoric revolts even other MAGA pols)."

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Jennifer Rubin points to three faith leaders who, in a dismal time in which many American Christians are actively promoting cruelty, exclusion, hatred, and outright evil, "stood out this year as undaunted proponents of decency, empathy, and social responsibility." The three leaders she names are Pope Leo, Reverend Mariann Edgar Budde, and Pastor Jamal Bryant:

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https://contrarian.substack.com/p/undaunted-in-faith

Speaking about #DonaldTrump: Mariann Edgar Budde criticized the use of police and National Guard to forcibly clear protestors from Lafayette Square ahead of the president's pose for a photo op in front of St. John's Church in June 2020, amid the #GeorgeFloyd protests in Washington, DC, calling it a "[use] as a backdrop for a message antithetical to the teachings of Jesus."

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Speaking about #MatthewShepard: Did you know, that Mariann Edgar Budde, the diocese's first female bishop, who made headlines for speaking at #DonaldTrump's inauguration, much to the president's dislike, presided over the interment of the ashes of Matthew Shepard, at the cathedral in 2018, together with Gene Robinson, the first openly gay Episcopal bishop?

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