Ben Shapiro: “Jesus was not in favor of free migration across all borders”
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From the January 22, 2025, edition of The Daily Wire's The Ben Shapiro Show
BEN SHAPIRO (HOST): So the National Prayer Service was held yesterday at the Washington National Cathedral. It's an invite only event, but it's pretty big. It's, like, 4,000 people show up. President Trump went along with Melania as well as the entire Trump family, so too did Vice President Vance and his family as well.
And in the middle of the service, which is sort of interfaith service, kind of — it has a a variety of of people who get up and and speak. One of the people who was preaching, and I say preaching kind of in scare quotes, is a person named Mariann Budd. Mariann Budd is an Episcopal bishop, a female Episcopal bishop. So you can imagine she's not going to be exactly a traditionalist. And she gets up in front of President Trump and Vice President Vance, and she proceeds to spew a diatribe of woke mind nonsense that has nothing whatsoever to do with the Bible, Christianity, traditionalism, anything. Anything. 50 years ago, you would be much more likely to hear this in a communist party hall than in a church. One of the terrible things about the decline of religion in America is that you now hear this kind of trash in churches.
So this resistance pastor gets up and is gonna make herself famous by ripping into Donald Trump and JD Vance the day after the inauguration. And she's gonna do so by spewing absolute nonsense wokeness about both trans kids, who don't exist. OK. When I say they don't exist, I mean that there may be kids with gender dysphoria, but the notion that a child knows that their body is not in line with their with their sex is ridiculous on his face. She spews nonsense about trans children and about illegal immigrants and suggests that if President Trump wishes to emulate the values of Jesus, then he must abandon his entire political agenda. I noticed that Jesus was not in favor of free migration across all borders. You're gonna have to show me where in the Bible he was in favor of that. And I certainly know that Jesus was not in favor of the idea that boys and girls are the same and are interchangeable and boys can become girls. But, of course, it has nothing to do with religion. It is what the left has done with nearly every institution. They've hollowed out the institution. They hollowed out the church, and they stuck in a bunch of left-wing woke garbage.