Washington National Cathedral Issues Scathing Rebuke of Trump
Washington National Cathedral Issues Scathing Rebuke of Trump: ‘The Time for Silence Is Over’
The top leaders of the Washington National Cathedral — a “national house of prayer” that has been the site of four presidential funerals — this week issued a withering condemnation of President Donald Trump‘s inflammatory and, at times, racist rhetoric.
With repeated references to the mid-century hysteria around Communism, in which Sen. Joseph McCarthy stoked vitriol and suspicion in public discourse, three top cathedral officials said President Trump was doing much the same now.
“We have come to accept a level of insult and abuse in political discourse that violates each person’s sacred identity as a child of God,” reads the Tuesday statement, signed by the Revs. Mariann Budde, Randolph Hollerith and Kelly Douglas. “We have come to accept as normal a steady stream of language and accusations coming from the highest office in the land that plays to racist elements in society.”
SOURCE ⇒ PEOPLE
