Woke Bishop’s Anti-Trump Sermon Is The End Result Of A Marxist Plot
Mariann Budde, the Bishop who presided over the inaugural prayer service at Washington’s National Cathedral Tuesday, disgraced the nation when she used a nonpartisan occasion of religious worship to deliver a left-wing diatribe to President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and their families.
After asking Trump to “have mercy” on “gay, lesbian and transgender children,” she went on to harangue him from the pulpit about his immigration policies, describing illegal aliens as “the people who pick our crops and clean our office buildings.”
Though Budde’s rant was wholly inappropriate to both the occasion and her office, it should have come as no surprise to White House staff, given her long history of left-wing activism. As the first woman to lead the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, Budde has routinely prioritized political matters over spiritual ones, staking out a public anti-Trump position.
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In June of 2020, she told ABC that the nation needed to “replace President Trump.” When he made an appearance in front of St. John’s Episcopal Church to send a message to George Floyd rioters who had burned the historic building, she told The Washington Post “Everything [Trump] has said and done is to inflame violence. … We need moral leadership, and he’s done everything to divide us.”
Budde’s comments were especially ironic given her backing of divisive racial policies. In 2020, she supported a new healthcare proposal from Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear that would have provided coverage only to black residents, and she called the Black Lives Matter protests a “sacred act.” Her biography on the diocese’s website — which lauds her as “an advocate and organizer in support of justice concerns, including racial equity, gun violence prevention, immigration reform, the full inclusion of LGBTQ+ persons, and the care of creation” — reveals that she is, in fact, a political operative in priestly robes.
In the understandable fallout from Budde’s “sermon,” many Americans who do not pay close attention to religious matters are asking how the Episcopal Church has fallen so far from anything resembling biblical doctrine. What few realize is that Marxists who infiltrated the church decades ago long worked to see activists like Budde placed in high church offices.
As documents in the Soviet Comintern Archives and testimony from ex-communist Herbert Romerstein revealed during the Reagan Era, between 1920 and 1950, the Communist Party of the United States embarked on a program to infiltrate mainline Protestant churches, including the Episcopalians, to entice their pastors to embrace socialism.
After he left the Communist Party USA, Romerstein testified before Congress on the “suckers lists” his organization had assembled — that is, the lists of institutions and groups he and his comrades had planned to subvert. A key target among them? Clergy. Indeed, Romerstein later told Reagan biographer Paul Kengor that they were “the biggest suckers of them all” because he and his comrades had more success infiltrating their ranks than those of any other group.
Members of the Soviet Comintern, the international socialist organization that included the Communist Party USA, were atheists, but they knew how to appropriate religious terminology for political ends. Their imitation game worked especially well on the National Council of Churches, a Protestant umbrella group that included the Episcopal Church.
By giving social justice causes pseudo-spiritual names, they were able to replace Heavenly concerns like saving souls with earthly ones like wealth inequality. In fact, later records showed that the Episcopal Church became one of the most deeply compromised denominations, with an estimated 20.5 percent of its rectors associated with communist activities.
According to now-declassified records, American communists acting under Soviet orders even successfully enlisted pastors to lobby President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to keep America out of World War II because Stalin and Hitler were, at that time, allies.
Presumptuously calling itself “we of the church,” the ecumenical activist group, American Peace Mobilization, published an open letter in The New York Times calling on President Roosevelt to “put an end to what we deem is an aggressive, militant foreign policy, which will inevitably lead to…the destruction of democracy.”
As soon as Stalin changed positions and wanted America to join the Allies, however, these religious leaders immediately became pro-war, and changed their name to the American People’s Mobilization. Congress would later call the American Peace Mobilization “one of the most seditious organizations which ever operated in the United States.” And many Episcopal pastors, claiming to speak for the “the church,” were a part of it.
The complete hollowing out of the Episcopal Church took time. Even as recently as 1998, the denomination approved a resolution asserting that homosexuality was “incompatible with Scripture.” Yet, in 2003, it consecrated its first openly gay bishop. In 2012, it approved transgender ordination. And today we see the full fruit of those early communist efforts, in a female bishop using the holy name of Jesus to lobby a president to lend support to practices that Scripture expressly condemns.
Faithful Christians should see a stark warning in Tuesday’s prayer service debacle, and in the historic Episcopal cathedrals now draped in rainbow-hued flags:
Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves (Matt 7:12).
Guard your churches and police your sheep pens, lest the wolves ravage your house, too.