It‘s got to be Tide.
>>> THIS MORNING PRESIDENT TRUMP
AND FIRST LADY WENT TO SEE JOHN
PAUL II’S NATIONAL SHRINE IN
WASHINGTON, D.C., WHERE THEY
LAID A WREATH AND OBSERVED A
MOMENT OF SILENCE.
LAST NIGHT THE PRESIDENT, OF
COURSE, STOOD IN FRONT OF ST.
JOHN’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH HOLDING
A BIBLE FOR A BRIEF PHOTO-OP BUT
WITHOUT ANY NOTICE TO THE CHURCH
OR DIOCESE.
FATHER JAMES MARTIN, PRIEST AND
EDITOR IN LARGE IN AMERICA, SAID
LET ME BE CLEAR THIS IS
REVOTING.
A BIBLE NOT A PROP.
A CHURCH IS NOT A PHOTO-OP 6789
RELIGION NOT A TOOL.
GOD IS NOT YOUR PLAY THING.
FATHER MARTIN IS HERE AND
MARIANNE BUD
MARIANNE BUDDE, EPISCOPAL BISHOP
IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.
FIRST, WE’RE TOLD THIS WAS
PREAPPROVED, THAT THE ARCHBISHOP
OF THE DIOCESE WAS AWARE A WHILE
BACK.
>> APPARENTLY NOT BECAUSE THE
ARCHBISHOP THIS MORNING
CONDEMNED IT AS BAFFLING AND
REPREHENSIBLE AND SAYING IT IS
AMAZING TO HIM A SHRINE WOULD BE
USED IN THAT WAY AND A RELIGIOUS
SITE WOULD BE MANIPULATED IN
THAT WAY.
SO HE CLEARLY THOUGHT OF IT IN
THE SAME WAY THAT THE BISHOP,
EPISCOPAL BISHOP, OBJECTED TO
THE USE OF HER CHURCH OR THE
DIOCESES’ CHURCH, AS A PHOTO-OP.
I WONDER SOMETIMES DOES HE KNOW
WHAT JOHN PAUL STOOD FOR?
HE WORKED WITH PROTESTERS WHEN
THE SOLIDARITY OPENED IN POLAND,
DOES I KNOW JESUS TALKS ABOUT
BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS?
THESE ARE APPARENTLY JUST
PHOTO-OPS WHERE HE’S USING
RELIGION AND RELIGIOUS IMAGERY
TO BOLSTER HIS POLITICAL
SITUATION.
>> FATHER, I APOLOGIZE BECAUSE I
ASSUMED SINCE IT WAS ON HIS
SCHEDULE, UNLIKE WHAT HE DID
LAST NIGHT, THAT THIS HAD BEEN
WORKED OUT WITH THE ARCHDIOCESE.
I HAVE TO CONFESS TO BEING
SHOCKED BY THAT.
I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN.
THAT IS MY ERROR.
TO BISHOP BUDDE, I LISTENED TO
YOU LAST NIGHT WHEN YOU FIRST
EXPRESSED YOUR OUTRAGE.
LET’S TALK ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED
AT ST. JOHN’S, WHICH TOOK ALL OF
US AND CERTAINLY A LOT OF THE
PEACEFUL PROTESTERS CLEARED FROM
LAFAYETTE SQUARE, WITH NO NOTICE
BEFORE THE CURE FEW HAD TAKEN
PLACE, WHICH MAYOR BOWSER HAD
OBJECTED TO AS WELL.
>> IT’S THE ENTIRE SCENARIO,
STARTING FROM HIS VERY WORRISOME
MILITARISTIC REMARKS AT THE ROSE
GARDEN THREATENING MILITARY
FORCE TO ANY STATE THAT HE
DOESN’T SEEM ADEQUATELY
RESPONDING TO THE PROTESTS, THEN
HAVING THE PARK AND THE FRONT OF
THE CHURCH COURTYARD CLEARED
WITH TEAR GAS AND OFFICERS IN
RIOT GEAR AND THEN STANDING
BEFORE THE CHURCH HOLDING OUR
SACRED TEXT AS IF THEY WERE
SYMBOLS THAT HE COULD
APPROPRIATE TO BOLSTER HIS -- OR
TO VINDICATE OR TO AUTHORIZE HIS
POLITICAL END STATEMENTS AND
POSITIONS, AND WE JUST FELT -- I
MEAN THE REAL OUTRAGE IS WHAT’S
HAPPENED IN OUR COUNTRY.
THE REAL OUTRAGE IS THE RACIAL
VIOLENCE THAT HAS BEEN
PERPETRATED AGAINST PEOPLE OF
COLOR FOR GENERATIONS, BUT TO
USE THE SYMBOLS AND THE SACRED
SPACES OF OUR TRADITION TO
JUSTIFY OR TO BOLSTER HIS