{"id":31191,"date":"2025-01-22T00:55:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T00:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/22\/they-fear-for-their-lives-bishop-confronts-trump-on-immigration-and-gay-rights-video\/"},"modified":"2025-01-22T00:55:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T00:55:40","slug":"they-fear-for-their-lives-bishop-confronts-trump-on-immigration-and-gay-rights-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/22\/they-fear-for-their-lives-bishop-confronts-trump-on-immigration-and-gay-rights-video\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They fear for their lives\u2019: Bishop confronts Trump on immigration and gay rights \u2013\u00a0video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump began his first full day in office attending a prayer service at the Washington National Cathedral. The Episcopal bishop of Washington, Mariann Edgar Budde, pleaded with Trump during the service, asking the newly elected president to protect immigrants and respect gay rights. \u2018There are gay, lesbian and transgender children in Democratic, Republican and independent families, some who fear for their lives,\u2019 she said as Trump and his family watched on. After the inauguration, Trump launched a sweeping immigration crackdown and promised mass deportations<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/jan\/21\/donald-trump-inauguration-presidency-executive-orders-pardons-day-two-live-blog\">US Politics live \u2013\u00a0latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/video\/2025\/jan\/21\/they-fear-for-their-lives-bishop-confronts-trump-on-immigration-and-gay-rights-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump began his first full day in office attending a prayer service at the Washington National Cathedral. The Episcopal bishop of Washington, Mariann Edgar Budde, pleaded with Trump during the service, asking the newly elected president to protect immigrants and respect gay rights. \u2018There are gay, lesbian and transgender children in Democratic, Republican &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018They fear for their lives\u2019: Bishop confronts Trump on immigration and gay rights \u2013\u00a0video\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/22\/they-fear-for-their-lives-bishop-confronts-trump-on-immigration-and-gay-rights-video\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018They fear for their lives\u2019: Bishop confronts Trump on immigration and gay rights \u2013\u00a0video\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}