Inaugural Prayer Service - reactions are telling

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Expected echo chamber here.

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I felt like that church service wasn't the time or place to preach that. It felt disrespectful.

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Anonymous wrote:I felt like that church service wasn't the time or place to preach that. It felt disrespectful.

You really don't get what church services are for.

If you just want feel good vibes, you should go to a yoga retreat.

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Anonymous wrote:I felt like that church service wasn't the time or place to preach that. It felt disrespectful.

Church is not the place to preach on mercy? To preach the values of the denomination? Are you a member of the congregation?

Trump is not a member of any church. As a child he sometimes attended Presbyterian (USA) but then his family went to Marble Collegiate which was quite progressive. He does not regularly attend services or display behavior that one might expect from a professing Christian leader.

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Anonymous wrote:Sermon went straight to the point and it was telling that Melania and Usha stayed stoic the whole time. Usha didn’t even react when JD looked at her multiple times to commiserate.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/21/politics/video/revered-inaugural-prayer-lgbtq-immigrants-digvid

I guess you missed the part where Melania was trying to stifle laughs.

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Anonymous wrote:I felt like that church service wasn't the time or place to preach that. It felt disrespectful.

What is "that"? To love your neighbor? To have mercy on those suffering? I think you've lost true meaning of Christianity.

She didn't ask them to understand and rally around the LGBTQ community. She asked for them to have mercy.

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Anonymous wrote:I felt like that church service wasn't the time or place to preach that. It felt disrespectful.

It was disrespectful, and rightly so.

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Anonymous wrote:I felt like that church service wasn't the time or place to preach that. It felt disrespectful.

What is "that"? To love your neighbor? To have mercy on those suffering? I think you've lost true meaning of Christianity.

She didn't ask them to understand and rally around the LGBTQ community. She asked for them to have mercy.

Weird, that Trump, an atheist, is having his unseemly behavior defended by supposedly religious people.

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Anonymous wrote:Very brave individual.

Yes, she's brave. But it was her church, after all.

I look forward to the day when there is no prayer service after a presidential inauguration.

Especially for an atheist, like Trump.

It's fine if a president requests a prayer service, but it should not be automatic. Remember: separation of church and state.

Good one. In a country where the head of state is sworn in with his hand on a bible and the currency has "in god we trust" printed on it.

There is minimal separation despite it all. It was telling when he did not put his hand on the bible.

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I have no connection to the LBGTQ community, and I should definitely know better than to expect that a politician would act any differently than a politician, but it made me truly sad to see JD Vance smirk.

Do they really have no moral values? Do they not understand the incredible power that they have now and how there actually are people suffering because of them?

I didn't vote for them, but at the end of the day, you like to believe that your leaders have a shred of decency and humanity in them, and these people truly are vile.

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Anonymous wrote:I have no connection to the LBGTQ community, and I should definitely know better than to expect that a politician would act any differently than a politician, but it made me truly sad to see JD Vance smirk.

Do they really have no moral values? Do they not understand the incredible power that they have now and how there actually are people suffering because of them?

I didn't vote for them, but at the end of the day, you like to believe that your leaders have a shred of decency and humanity in them, and these people truly are vile.

JD became Catholic for political reasons. He didn’t baptize his children, which is required when you are a practicingCatholic. He doesn’t practice anything catholic.

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Anonymous wrote:I felt like that church service wasn't the time or place to preach that. It felt disrespectful.

It was disrespectful, and rightly so.

Trump and his followers see it as being disrespectful. Good.

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Anonymous wrote:I felt like that church service wasn't the time or place to preach that. It felt disrespectful.

It was the only way Trump would be sure to hear it. God knows he's not a regular church goer. And it's likely that most preachers wouldn't have the guts to tell truth to power.

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Anonymous wrote:I have no connection to the LBGTQ community, and I should definitely know better than to expect that a politician would act any differently than a politician, but it made me truly sad to see JD Vance smirk.

Do they really have no moral values? Do they not understand the incredible power that they have now and how there actually are people suffering because of them?

I didn't vote for them, but at the end of the day, you like to believe that your leaders have a shred of decency and humanity in them, and these people truly are vile.

JD became Catholic for political reasons. He didn’t baptize his children, which is required when you are a practicingCatholic. He doesn’t practice anything catholic.

He became Catholic because he thought it would give him power over is wife.

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Anonymous wrote:I felt like that church service wasn't the time or place to preach that. It felt disrespectful.

If you can't stand the light of God, get out of the kitchen. It's her church.