[Video Description: An NBC News segment showing a split screen with Reverend Mariann Edgar Budde on the top and President Trump and Vice President Vance sitting in an audience watching her. Subtitles appear for what the Reverend is saying, and the subtitles read “In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender children in democratic, republican, and independent families. Some who fear for their lives. And the people, the people who pick our crops and clean our office buildings, who labor in poultry farms and meat picking plants, who wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants, and work the night shifts in hospitals. They may not be citizens or have the proper documentation but the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals. They pay taxes and are good neighbors. They are faithful members of our churches and mosques, synagogues, gurdwara and temples. I ask you to have mercy, Mr. President, on those in our communities whose children fear that their parents will be taken away. And that you help those who are fleeing war zones and persecution in their our lands, to find compassion and welcome here. Our god teaches us that we are to be merciful to the stranger for we were all once strangers in this land. May god grant us the strength and courage to honor the dignity of every human being, to speak the truth to one another in love, and walk humbly with each other and our god. For the good of all people, good of all people in this nation and the world, amen.]
[Image Description of tags: #videos #religion mention # rachael maddow said something interesting about this last night #she was talking about how the way you contain trump #is that you shame and embarrass his supporters in the government #and turn them against him slowly #and what this reverend did is a part of that #make them embarrassed for supporting him #make them embarrassed that they support a guy who invokes this kind of sermon from a religious leader #never let them know peace about it]
