D.C. Church 'Outraged' That Trump Used It As Photo-Op
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Interesting. Is that your line in the sand? Could you explain it to me? What is it about holding up the bible as a prop that's OK but standing in front of an altar would not be?
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The most liberal Episcopal church in DC, too, in an historic liberal denomination.
Trump clearly doesn't understand much about his evanglical base. Most of them think Episcopalians are going to hell, anyways. So the photo op is just ridiculous imaging.
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I've been saying that about the GOP (and the Church) for years.
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Being that the church building was set afire (by "peaceful protesters," in the view of the church)
and it's almost a national monument, based on its location and past history...
...which has now been desecrated. Whether the fire or this cheap attempt at exploitation did more damage is a question I'll leave to the historians.
Brick and mortar can be easily repaired... reputation cannot.
Yeah, what right does she have to complain...? She's lucky she wasn't there to get gassed...
Nope, nothing that important. Merely a Bible.
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Tear gas was used. Because Trump wont deal with normal people defending a black, liberal or mentally disabled and murder victims, that aren't Conservative . Trump encourages bad behavior. Trump only cares about rich people only. I'm glad this church is out raged, By such evil.
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He doesn't have to. Stand in front of the building and wave the book around... they'll lap it up every time.
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I don't know about defacing, but it was one room in the basement of the church that was damaged according to Rev. Robert Fisher. And it was Sunday night, the day before the clearing of the park.
St. John's Church rector on aftermath of fire, impromptu Trump visit: 'Like I'm in some alternative universe'
They were handing out food on the porch when the federal forces decided to tear gas the protesters and had to leave the area as well. The clearing of the park had nothing to do with what was happening at the church.
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And that's precisely what makes his act so disrespectful to Episcopalians. Episcopal churches aren't props.
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Arson happens at churches for all sorts of reasons. A few years ago, an arsonist burned the social hall at my old church.
We should be careful about reading too much offense into these sorts of acts. Wisely, the Episcopalians in DC are not doing so, either.
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Only if peaceful protesters were forcibly removed so that the bishop could have photo op.You appear to be looking for a reason to object. What the bishop gave as reasons for being outraged was not what you've addressed but because...it was Trump. That's all it took and, no, there is no reason to think that a request beforehand would have met with that bishop's approval.
T-r-u-m-p was good enough to find fault with the President of the United States standing in front of the church and having his picture taken as thousands of people before hi8m have done, including many other presidents who posed for photos there.
I'm going to guess that the President would not issue a press release outlining his outrage if the bishop were to have her picture taken in front of the White House, though.
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Perhaps you’d like to show me in this video of the event where people threw things at the officers and where they were instructed to leave before being attacked.
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