{"id":927044,"date":"2025-01-23T13:35:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T18:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glaad.org\/?p=927044"},"modified":"2025-02-04T18:05:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T23:05:30","slug":"bishop-mariann-edgar-budde-delivers-powerful-inauguration-sermon-in-support-of-immigrants-and-lgbtq-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaad.org\/bishop-mariann-edgar-budde-delivers-powerful-inauguration-sermon-in-support-of-immigrants-and-lgbtq-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde Delivers Powerful Inauguration Sermon in Support of Immigrants and LGBTQ People"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week, Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde delivered a powerful sermon in the National Cathedral prayer service for the inauguration, fearlessly speaking truth to power about the realities all marginalized people face under the new presidential administration. She urged mercy and compassion directly from the pulpit.<\/p>\n

President Trump, Vice President Vance, their families, and key administration officials were in attendance, and Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, the Bishop of Washington, D.C., spoke to them in her sermon:<\/p>\n

\n
\n

 <\/p>\n

\n
<\/div>\n
\n
<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
\n
View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
\n
\n
<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

A post shared by GLAAD (@glaad)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n