Bishops are unhappy seeing US president use visits to churches to gain political support. FMTNews Trump
Trump holds a Bible as he visits St John’s Church in Washington on June 1.
“It was traumatic and deeply offensive, in the sense that something sacred was being misused for a political gesture,” Washington’s Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budde said on public radio station NPR. The historic St John’s Episcopal church is across the street from Lafayette Park, which faces the White House and has been the epicentre of the protests in Washington since Friday.On Monday protesters were demonstrating there peacefully when law enforcement including military police used tear gas to disperse them – clearing a path for the president to walk from the White House to the church for the photographs.“The protest at that point was entirely peaceful,” Budde said.
“Simply by holding aloft an unopened Bible he presumed to claim Christian endorsement and imply that of The Episcopal Church,” bishops from New England said in a statement.
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