Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budde said she is “not going to apologize for asking for mercy for others,” a plea she made to President Donald Trump from the Canterbury pulpit on Tuesday.
“It was a pretty mild sermon,” Budde said of her Tuesday sermon to Time. “It certainly wasn’t a fire and brimstone sermon. It was as respectful and as universal as I could with the exception of making someone who has been entrusted with such enormous influence and power to have mercy on those who are most vulnerable.”
During the National Prayer Service at the National Cathedral, Budde, 65, asked for Trump to have “mercy” for LGBTQ youth and illegal…
