Preacherman Bows Down to the Golden Calf

 

Rev. Mark Harris, one of NC's newest crop of Congressional idolators and the week-old bread who's been elected/unelected/reelected in different districts, trailed by vote-stealing evidence that cost him the seat in 2018 and embarrassed his Christian piety. As pastor of a Southern Baptist megachurch in Charlotte and a leader of the evangelistic campaign to punish LGBTQ people for being LGBTQ, it should come as no surprise that Harris would introduce H. Res. 59, "Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the sermon given by the Right Reverend Mariann Edgar Budde at the National Prayer Service on January 21st, 2025, at the National Cathedral was a display of political activism."

There's apparently a live rumor in MAGA-land that Bishop Budde is some kind of dangerous lesbian. For evidence there's the haircut. Plus she speaks up particularly for the LGBTQ community, which in church is a damning admission of something dark and sinful. But Budde and her husband, Paul, have two adult sons and are also grandparents. (So shut the fuck up. All of you.)

For the record, Budde said a fact to Trump's face, which in Trumpland is obviously verboten and actually punishable by death. Budde said the truth, that LGBTQ and other minorities are actually scared of Trump because of the ExecOrders he's already signed, and they fear for the future and for their actual lives. Gosh. That's now a "political" thing to say? Pointing out the connection between Jethro's decrees and the real suffering in the civilian world because of him? 

Preacherman's resolution is culture war flotsam. Just noting here that there ain't no bigot like a supposedly religious one.